Junior Test Engineer

Graduate / Junior QA Engineer (Cypress Focus) About the company

Our client is a fast-growing UK SaaS company building software at the sharp end of regulated finance, where correctness, clarity and trust genuinely matter. Their product helps real businesses and advisers navigate complex, rules-heavy tax workflows with confidence. Done well, that means fewer errors, faster decisions, and far less frustration for users.

Quality is not an afterthought in what they do, it is the product. The interfaces and journeys their customers rely on have to hold up under real-world complexity, edge cases and regulatory scrutiny. That is the work this role exists for.

Testing that actually matters. You will not be writing throwaway checks against a brochure site. You will be designing and automating tests across multi-step financial workflows where a missed edge case costs real users real money.

Build proper foundations under guidance. You will be supported by experienced engineers as you grow into modern testing practice with Cypress, learning the right way to design test suites, write maintainable automation, and integrate tests into CI pipelines.

Small, product-led team. The team ships iteratively, keeps feedback loops tight, and gets changes into production quickly. Your testing work feeds directly into release decisions, not into a queue.

Modern, pragmatic engineering culture. They value simplicity, testing and continuous delivery over buzzwords. Good decisions are documented, not dictated.

• Write and maintain end-to-end test cases for key user journeys.
• Build automated tests using Cypress, starting with core flows and gradually expanding coverage.
• Test success journeys and edge cases across multi-step financial workflows.
• Help identify, reproduce and clearly report bugs and issues.
• Work with developers to understand features and define expected behaviour.
• Support regression testing through automated test suites.
• Learn how to integrate tests into CI pipelines.

• A strong interest in software testing, quality or development.
• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, from a UK university (or equivalent demonstrable experience in testing or QA).
• Some hands‑on experience using Cypress (or a similar end‑to‑end testing tool, e.g. Playwright, Webdriver
  
  IO, Selenium).
• Experience with testing concepts, gained through academic work, personal projects, internships or commercial work.
• Attention to detail and curiosity about how systems behave.
• Clear communication skills, able to describe issues simply and accurately.
• Interest in web applications and how they are built (React or Type Script exposure is a bonus, not required).
• A proactive mindset and willingness to ask questions.

• Basic understanding of APIs or web services.
• Familiarity with Git or CI/CD tools.
• Personal projects involving testing or automation.

• Hybrid and flexible. Mostly home-based, with one day per week in the office (Tuesdays).
• Lightweight Agile. Practical processes that support delivery, not bureaucracy.
• Low ego, high trust, real autonomy. You will own your work end to end, with no micromanagement and support when you need it.

• Up to £32k salary, plus benefits.
• Structured support and mentoring tailored to early-career engineers.
• Real progression as you build foundations in modern testing practice.
• Opportunity to work on meaningful, real‑world financial software where quality directly impacts users.

If you enjoy thinking carefully about how things break, care about quality as a craft, and want to learn modern test automation in a team that values it, we would love to hear from you.

Our client is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Individuals seeking employment with them are considered without regard to race, sex, colour, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetics, marital status, pregnancy, unemployment status, sexual orientation, citizenship status or veteran status.