Product QA Specialist
The role
We’re hiring a hands-on Product QA Specialist to own product acceptance testing and release readiness for our B2B SaaS platform in the commodities trading space.
This is a manual-first QA role with a large product surface area. The core value of the role is in being systematic, meticulous, and consistent - getting deeply familiar with the platform and working with our engineers to catch issues before they reach customers.
Over time, you’ll also work closely with engineers to help expand our automated test coverage, starting with targeted smoke tests around critical product flows. Familiarity with modern testing frameworks (such as Playwright) is a nice-to-have, but not required.
This role can evolve into a QA Lead position, with responsibility for defining testing standards and release readiness across the product.
Salary: £45,000–£50,000 + benefits
What you’ll do
Acceptance testing
- Thorough, structured manual testing once a feature is “dev complete”
- Validate end-to-end workflows and business-critical paths
- Spot edge cases and regressions before customers do
Regression testing
- Own and maintain repeatable regression test packs
- Run them before releases and keep coverage up to date as the product evolves
Release readiness and sign-off
- Own the release checklist
- Give a clear go / no-go recommendation, with evidence of what you tested
- Help the team tighten up rollback triggers and release hygiene
Quality habits across the team
- Write excellent bug reports (clear steps, expected vs actual, severity, evidence)
- Work closely with engineers to reduce recurring issues and improve testability
- Identify high-value workflows to automate gradually, in partnership with engineering
What we’re looking for
- 3+ years' experience in QA / product testing or product for a web or SaaS product, or within a commodities trading company
- Very methodical. You don’t mind repetitive testing, and you’re proud of doing it properly
- Strong judgement on what is release-blocking vs what can wait
- Strong written communication: your bug reports are easy to understand and work with
- Comfortable working closely with Product, Engineering and Support
Nice to have
- Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar
- Experience testing systems with permissions, feature flags, different environments and messy real-world states
- Any exposure to commodities, trading, derivatives, market data, or other financial systems
- Comfort using browser devtools, logs, and network traces for basic debugging
What success looks like (first 90 days)
- You produce a clear acceptance checklist and regression pack that’s used every release
- Releases have a consistent sign-off note: what was tested, what passed, what’s known risk
- Fewer last-minute surprises, fewer customer-impacting regressions
- A shortlist of automated smoke tests agreed with engineering, with early traction on implementing them