Quality Assurance Engineer
Join us as a QA Engineer at Peregrine Resourcing
How Specialist Talent Works:
At Peregrine, we find the best talent for our clients. As a permanent employee of Peregrine, with access to all our standard benefits, you will be deployed across our portfolio of clients as a specialist consultant, working on a wide array of complex projects across multiple industries.
Salary: £40,000 – £60,000
Location: Hybrid working (2–3 days per week on-site, West London)
The Role:
We are seeking a QA Engineer to join a high-performing, cross-functional technology team delivering solutions from initial requirements through to production deployment.
This is an exciting opportunity for a QA professional with 3+ years’ experience (salary dependent on experience) to work across both manual and automation testing, contributing to high-quality software delivery within a modern CI/CD environment.
Responsibilities:
- Define test strategies and test plans, ensuring traceability to specifications and customer requirements
- Design and execute functional and non-functional test cases and scripts
- Prepare test environments and test data to support effective test execution
- Provide go/no-go decisions based on defined exit criteria
- Ensure compliance with CI/CD, quality standards (SDL/STDL), and industry best practices (e.g. ISTQB)
- Continuously maintain and improve regression test suites and CI/CD pipelines
- Understand, maintain, and enhance the test automation framework
- Identify opportunities to automate manual test cases
- Develop new automation scripts and maintain existing ones
- Raise, investigate, and manage defects, assigning appropriate severity levels
- Validate defect fixes and support production releases
- Investigate production issues, test fixes, and enhance test coverage accordingly
Skills & Experience:
Essential:
- 3+ years’ experience in a QA / Test Engineering role or 6 years (salary dependent on experience)
- Experience with test management and automation tools such as Octane, Playwright or Robot Framework
- Experience with API testing tools (e.g. Postman)
- Strong scripting/programming skills in Python, Java, JavaScript, PowerShell or Bash
- Experience working with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins
- Familiarity with code quality tools such as Sonar
- Strong understanding of testing principles, methodologies, and best practices
About us:
At Peregrine, we see beyond the immediate and look to the horizon. We build lasting, meaningful partnerships with our clients, delivering flexible solutions for every resourcing need.
Our Culture:
We embrace fresh ideas, value openness and honesty, and work collaboratively to deliver meaningful outcomes. Our work helps shape the future workforce and drives positive societal impact.
Our Commitment to Diversity:
We are committed to championing diversity and inclusion, supporting social mobility, and creating opportunities for individuals from all backgrounds.