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# Software Test Engineer

- **Company:** gb
Leo Recruitment Limited
- **Location:** Poole, UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £35,000 - £40,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, JIRA, Automation of Tests, Software Bug Management, Cloud Computing, Code Coverage, Databases, DevOps, Programming Tools, Scrum Methodology, Standard Sql, Selenium, Postman, Api Design, Api Management
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/test-programmer/leo-recruitment-limited-job108223294

## About the Role

* Strong knowledge of QA methodologies and the software testing lifecycle.
 * Hands-on experience of manual testing across web, mobile and/or API-based applications.
 * Exposure to automated testing, or a genuine interest in developing further in this area.
 * The ability to create clear test cases, investigate issues thoroughly and communicate defects and outcomes effectively.
 * Experience working with test plans, defect management and modern software-delivery workflows in an Agile or Scrum environment.
 * SQL knowledge for database validation and testing, alongside an analytical and investigative approach to problem-solving.

Useful, but not essential: Jira, Postman, Selenium, AWS, API testing, cloud-based environments and experience working closely with DevOps teams.

You do not need to match every preferred technology listed. If you have strong testing fundamentals, enjoy investigating problems, and want to broaden your technical capability, the company would be interested in hearing from you.

## Description

If you work in QA, you may know how frustrating it is to be brought in at the end of a project, handed a release, and expected to find everything that could go wrong without having had the opportunity to influence it earlier.

This Software Test Engineer role gives you the chance to be involved much sooner - working alongside developers, product specialists and DevOps throughout the delivery cycle, rather than simply testing what has already been built.

You'll join an established software company that is investing in modern development tools and testing approaches. You'll have the opportunity to shape test coverage, explore how features behave in the real world, raise risks early and help improve how quality is built into complex software - not simply checked at the end.

The work is varied, spanning web, mobile and API-based applications. You'll combine thoughtful manual and exploratory testing with automation, working on software that is used at scale, and solving the kind of problems that keep the role interesting.

So, if you enjoy digging into how things work, spotting the detail that others may miss, and want to work somewhere your input can influence the quality of the product, this could be a very rewarding next step., This is not a role where QA sits at the edge of the delivery process. You'll work closely with the people building and supporting the product, with the space to investigate properly, raise risks early, and contribute ideas that improve quality over time.

As a Software Test Engineer, you'll have the support to develop your expertise across manual, exploratory and automated testing, while gaining exposure to a broad range of technologies and delivery challenges.