Overview
Quality Assurance Analyst Jobs in Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom at Clue Software
Title: Quality Assurance Analyst
Company: Clue Software
Location: Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
Our benefits
- Share Options (EMI) scheme
- 25 days annual leave, plus flexible bank holidays and the opportunity to buy additional days
- Enhanced workplace Pension scheme – opt-in salary sacrifice scheme
- Life Insurance (3x annual salary)
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and workplace wellbeing initiatives
- Private Healthcare cash-back scheme
- Flexible working hours and location,
- Flexible benefits, such as: Cycle to Work, volunteer days/ opportunities and charity events
- Enhanced parental leave packages and enhanced sick pay
- Training and development opportunities
- Engagement and celebration activities– anniversaries, birthdays, team building, company-wide events
Role specifics
- Salary range: Market rate
- Reporting to: Test Lead
- Key stakeholders: Tech and Product teams,
- Organisational Framework Level: 2
About You / Job Summary
As a QA Analyst at Clue, you will be a critical member of an agile development team made up developers, product owners and a release manager, all working together to ensure delivery of a quality product. You will use automation during each sprint and work closely with other members of the team to feedback your findings, while helping to identify and implement areas of improvement in the software quality process. You’ll be a test automation advocate and technically support and advance test automation within Clue, integrating this into our agile development workflow.
There will be a need to perform manual testing, but the drive is to automate where possible. Your focus will include not just functional correctness, but also trust, safety, performance, and the overall quality of the application.
Key Accountabilities
- Design, develop, and maintain test plans and automated test suites across frontend and backend.
- Build automation frameworks using Playwright and Cucumber with a focus on maintainability and scalability.
- Develop tools/scripts to validate model outputs and compare results across model versions (e.g. regression drift, hallucination checks).
- Define and execute non-functional tests (e.g. performance under load, prompt injection resilience, fairness/bias testing).
- Log and manage defects effectively; collaborate in root cause analysis and prevention.
- Actively contribute to CI/CD testing pipelines to ensure fast, reliable releases.
- Stay current on trends in AI/ML testing and suggest improvements to our QA practices.
- Exploratory Testing & Edge Case Discovery – Uncovering subtle bugs and edge cases through thoughtful exploratory testing, making a meaningful impact from early in the role.
Key role measures
- Rapid increase in automation test coverage
- Ensure automation test cases are created and followed according to the acceptance criteria on a story
- Work in an open, collaborative way with all other team members, report automation metrics and champion quality in software development lifecycle.
- Bring new ideas and improvements to the existing test process and share these with the team.
- Evaluate and improve the efficiency and stability of automated test processes
Experience and skills
Our ideal candidate would have experience in the following areas:
- Strong knowledge of Automation testing and frameworks
- Demonstratable skills in non-functional automation testing
- Experience of rapidly increasing test coverage for a cloud SaaS platform
- Proven experience with test plan management, fault diagnoses, and automated testing against a web-based application
- A proven track record of functional testing at various levels such as:
· Integration Testing
· Smoke Testing
· User Acceptance Testing
· Interface Testing/Usability Testing
· System Testing
· API Testing
· Regression Testing
- An understanding and proficiency in working as an active member of an agile development team, and the ability to demonstrate a good knowledge of Scrum and QA methodologies
- Proactive attitude with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. With the ability to work in a flexible and adaptable ongoing environment
- Excellent communication and coordination skills, and cooperative outlook. Good written and oral communication skills.
- Knowledge of using Azure DevOps to manage your work, as well as maintenance of build and deployment pipelines, alongside Octopus Deploy would be beneficial
- Strong test planning, time management, and change management skills, involving prioritising and reprioritising testing task across multiple functional groups and departments.
- Experience in Continuous integration and Continuous development systems in Azure.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway and tell us more about yourself. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
We believe that seeing the world from all sorts of angles makes life better for all. We want you to know that the things that make you an individual, like your identity, age, ethnicity, religion, ability and background, are things that we choose to celebrate and support.
We are a scale-up company, and as we continue to grow, we are passionate that having a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace will remain at our core. We are creating an inclusive environment where our people can thrive.
Our values are aligned and at the heart of everything we do. We are respectful, united, rigorous, relentless and ethical.
