QA Analyst

Quality Assurance Analyst | London | Hybrid | £450 p/d Inside IR35

Overview:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Quality Assurance Analyst to join a global organisation operating within a complex, technology-driven environment. This role will play a key part in ensuring improvements to a critical Commodity Trading and Risk Management (CTRM) platform are reliable, accurate and fit for business use.

Working as part of an Agile Scrum team, you’ll combine hands-on manual testing with test automation, ideally using Cypress, and contribute throughout the full software development lifecycle — from reviewing requirements and acceptance criteria through to regression testing, release assurance and continuous improvement.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Review user stories, business requirements, technical designs and acceptance criteria to identify test conditions, dependencies and risks.
• Create, maintain and execute test cases covering functional, integration, regression and exploratory testing.
• Test CTRM workflows and related business processes, including calculations, data and controls.
• Design, develop and maintain automated tests, ideally using Cypress.
• Identify suitable opportunities for automation while balancing automated, manual and exploratory testing.
• Record test evidence and clearly communicate defects, risks and test outcomes.
• Work closely with developers, Product Owners and business stakeholders to reproduce issues and verify fixes.
• Participate in Scrum ceremonies including refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives.

• Practical experience in a software testing or Quality Assurance role within a structured SDLC.
• Strong manual testing experience, including test analysis, test case design, execution, exploratory and regression testing.
• Experience creating and maintaining automated tests, with hands-on Cypress experience strongly preferred.
• Ability to translate user stories, business requirements and acceptance criteria into clear, risk-based tests.
• Experience identifying, documenting, prioritising and retesting defects.
• Experience working within an Agile Scrum environment.

• Experience testing CTRM or ETRM platforms.
• Exposure to commodities, trading, finance, risk, operations, logistics or other financially controlled environments.
• Experience testing complex calculations, data flows, interfaces, reports and end-to-end workflows across integrated systems.
• Working knowledge of JavaScript or TypeScript and Cypress for end-to-end, integration or API testing.
• Experience with API testing, SQL/database validation and CI pipelines.