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# QA Tester

- **Company:** Proactive.IT Appointments Ltd.
- **Location:** Exeter, UK
- **Salary:** £71,500.0 - £78,000.0
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Software Bug Management, Continuous Integration, Regression Testing, Selenium, SQL Databases, Test Case, Strategies of Testing
- **Published:** September 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.proactive.it/job/qa-tester-11849hs/

## About the Role

* Experience writing test plans and defining test strategies
 * Test case design and maintenance
 * Functional and regression testing
 * Azure environment and deployment experience
 * Integration and interface testing experience
 * Defect management
 * UAT experience
 * Performance and security testing experience
 * Selenium automated testing experience
 * CI/CD experience
 * SQL experience

## Description

Our client is looking to onboard an experienced QA Tester on a contract basis for an initial 4-month engagement. This is an exciting greenfield project where you'll have the opportunity to help shape the testing approach from the outset, defining test strategies, plans and cases while supporting functional, regression, integration and UAT testing.

The role will also involve defect management, working within an Azure environment and supporting CI/CD and deployment processes. Experience with Selenium automation, SQL, and performance and security testing would be highly desirable.


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