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# Software Test Engineer

- **Company:** ION Recruitment Ltd
- **Location:** Edinburgh, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), HTML, JavaScript (Programming Language), Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, JIRA, Automation of Tests, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Web Browsers, Regression Testing, Selenium, Strategies of Testing, Web Applications, ReactJS, Git, Software Version Control
- **Published:** June 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://ionrecruitment.com/job/software-test-engineer-web-applications/

## About the Role

* A Degree / HND in IT, Electronics, Computing or related discipline
 * ISEB qualified to Foundation level OR previous relevant experience of software testing
 * Commercial experience of functional & regression testing (web applications)
 * Testing across multiple devices, platforms & browsers
 * Some experience of test frameworks, for example Selenium
 * Automated Testing, Continuous Integration (CI) and Version Control Systems (preferably Git)
 * Any experience Jira
 * HTML, CSS, JavaScript (preferably with React)
 * Agile
 * Some experience of Amazon Web Services would be an advantage

## Description

The ideal applicant will have experience of Automated Testing, Continuous Integration and Version Control Systems (preferably Git), and a working knowledge of JavaScript (with React).

Breakdown of the role:

 * You will join a key team within our clients software product teams consisting of a small team of full stack web application developers, project manager, and a a technical team leader working in an Agile environment.
 * You will be responsible for all aspects of testing to help ensure the continuous delivery of robust / new features of the core software product including: tools selection, testing strategy / design, manual & automated test execution


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