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# QA Engineer (Manual + Automation)

- **Company:** White Circle
- **Location:** Greater London, UK
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Automation of Tests, Continuous Integration, Programming Tools, Github, Python (Programming Language), Load Testing, User Interface Testing, Web Platforms, Postman, Large Language Models, Pytest, Gitlab-ci, Integration Tests, Bug Reporting, Playwright
- **Published:** September 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2847390437-qa-engineer-manual--automation

## About the Role

* Have 2+ years of QA automation experience & you've built frameworks from scratch
 * Have experience with Playwright for end-to-end UI testing and know how to structure scalable test suites
 * Write clean automation code in Python (pytest, fixtures, parametrize)
 * Have plugged automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar)
 * Communicate clearly and work well with others & have fluent English
 * Have experience working with AI coding agents and LLM-powered developer tools, and understand how to use them effectively to improve productivity and testing workflows
 * Are curious, proactive, and eager to learn new things: you ask questions, think critically, and constantly look for ways to improve and optimise existing processes and solutions

A big plus:

 * Experience testing AI or LLM-based products, handling non-deterministic outputs, confidence scoring, edge-case prompts
 * Familiarity with performance or load testing (k6, Locust)
 * Experience with Postman, Insomnia, Yaak or API contract testing
 * Background in security-aware QA or SOC 2 environments

## Description

TLDR: We're looking for a hands-on QA Engineer to own product quality across our rapid release cycles. You'll spend most of your time manually testing new features and fixes across our web platform and APIs: exploring edge cases, identifying risks, running focused regression checks, and giving the team fast, clear feedback. You'll also automate stable, high-value scenarios using Playwright and Python, helping us make repeatable testing faster and more reliable. This is a manual-first product QA role where automation is an important tool, not the entire job., * Manually test new features and fixes throughout frequent and short (sometimes as short as a working day) release cycles

 * Quickly understand product changes, identify the highest-risk areas, and provide clear release feedback
 * Perform exploratory, smoke, regression, and integration testing across our web platform and APIs
 * Create concise, practical test plans and checklists for new features and releases
 * Investigate unexpected behaviour, isolate root causes, and write clear, reproducible bug reports
 * Work closely with engineers and product owners to clarify requirements and improve testability before development is complete
 * Build, maintain, and integrate automated tests for stable/business-critical flows into CI/CD, improving reliability and speed


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