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# Software Quality Assurance Tester

- **Company:** Stockford Recruitment
- **Location:** Bristol, UK
- **Salary:** £35,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Automation of Tests, Software as a Service, Commercial Software, Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Software Quality Assurance (SQA), SQL Databases, Test Case, Test Data, Strategies of Testing, Postman, Test Scripts, Integration Tests, Bug Reporting, Api Management
- **Published:** September 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2859585371-software-quality-assurance-tester

## About the Role

This would suit someone with commercial software testing experience who enjoys problem solving, has excellent attention to detail and wants to develop their career within a collaborative SaaS environment., You will have strong technical aptitude and be comfortable navigating and learning different software systems.

Ideally, you will bring experience across some of the following:

 * Commercial software testing / QA experience
 * Manual, regression and integration testing
 * Working within an Agile software development environment
 * Understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
 * Writing test cases, test scripts and testing strategies
 * Defect and bug reporting
 * Working closely with software developers and Product Owners
 * Experience with tools such as CRM systems, issue management platforms and Postman
 * API testing exposure
 * SQL experience
 * ISTQB certification or equivalent

You don't necessarily need everything on the list. Strong attention to detail, problem-solving ability and a willingness to learn are particularly important.

## Description

You will work closely with software developers, product specialists and support teams, testing regular releases as well as contributing to larger product development sprints., * Work closely with the Support Team to coordinate testing for fortnightly software releases

 * Carry out manual, regression, integration and release testing
 * Work alongside developers and Product during development sprints
 * Help define testing criteria for new features and major releases
 * Create and maintain test plans, test cases and test scripts
 * Build repeatable test packs and appropriate test data
 * Identify, document and report software defects and bugs
 * Contribute to the ongoing improvement of testing processes
 * Write and maintain test automation where appropriate


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