Junior Quality Assurance Engineer - 6 Month FTC

Junior Quality Assurance Engineer - 6 Month FTC Department: Digital Viscom - Development / Product Team Reporting to: Systems Development Manager Location: Delta Park / Hybrid About The Delta Group The Delta Group are Europe's leading visual communications specialist delivering dynamic multi-channel marketing services to brands and retailers across the globe. Our model combines insight, creative, production, execution and optimisation to provide clients with a broad range of effective and impactful point-of-purchase visual communications. We are committed to service excellence in-store, outdoor and online. We are dedicated, knowledgeable and client-focused people who aspire to make a difference every day. We value the long-term partnerships we have with our clients and work collaboratively to lead effective change and empower our clients' strategic goals. Our services – comprised of three units: Creative, Display and Technology – are designed to reduce the complexity of international marketing campaigns across multiple markets and languages whilst maintaining consistency, increasing localisation and responsiveness. We're owner-managed and independent, leading small teams of influential thinkers, meaning we have the agility of a small business but the resources of a large one. Our belief is that in a changing industry, we must be a company that can change with it. For more information about the Delta Group, please visit: https://www.thedeltagroup.co.uk/ Role Purpose This is an exciting opportunity to join the Delta Group's Product Team as a Software Quality Engineer, playing a central role in maintaining the quality, integrity, and reliability of the WorkstreamX suite of products and other client-facing systems. Working alongside Developers, Product Managers, and the CPO, you will own the quality assurance function — combining manual and automated testing to support the delivery of high-performance, fault-tolerant applications to our clients. You will bring structure and rigour to our testing processes, help establish formal QA standards and plans, and champion quality throughout the software development lifecycle — from requirements through to release. Key Responsibilities Quality Assurance & Independent Assurance • Identify, analyse and document product and contractual requirements to define appropriate quality criteria • Provide independent software quality assurance across development, verification, validation and release phases • Assess projects for compliance with software development plans and internal standards • Create and maintain software quality assurance plans in accordance with project and company requirements • Monitor product quality validation and the proper execution of product verification and testing activities • Participate in software maturity reviews and lifecycle reviews • Verify and sign off the release of deliverable software Test Design & Execution • Design, write, and execute comprehensive test plans, test cases and test scripts for new features and regression cycles • Perform functional, integration, regression and exploratory testing across Delta's web-based applications • Conduct API testing to validate service integrations and data flows • Identify, document and track defects with clear reproduction steps, severity ratings and resolution follow-up Execution & Oversight • Oversee manual and automated testing, regression testing, UAT (User Acceptance Testing), and performance testing. Test Automation & CI/CD • Build and maintain automated test suites using frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress or similar • Integrate automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline (Azure DevOps), supporting Delta's move toward continuous delivery • Contribute to reviewing and expanding tooling for functional and load/performance testing • Maintain and improve automation frameworks as the product evolves Defect Management • Establish bug tracking workflows, review test cases, and analyse defect data to identify root causes Process, Standards & Collaboration • Introduce and manage formal QA policies, procedures and standards across the development team • Work closely with developers and product managers in agile sprints, contributing to planning and refinement • Support the assessment of subcontracted companies' ability to develop software to required standards • Estimate QA resources required to support individual projects and workstreams • Participate in code reviews for test code and raise quality risks early and clearly • Ensure consistency of QA approach and share best practice across the team Knowledge, Skills & Experience Essential • 2–4 years of experience in a QA, software testing or software quality engineering role • Strong experience with both manual and automated testing approaches • Proficiency with at least one test automation framework (Playwright preferred) • Comfortable writing test scripts in at least one language — Python, JavaScript, TypeScript or C# • Experience with API testing tools such as Postman or REST Assured • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines — ideally Azure DevOps — and integrating automated tests into build processes • Good understanding of agile/scrum methodologies • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels • Methodical, detail-oriented mindset with a pragmatic approach to quality Desirable • Experience testing SaaS, B2B or marketing technology products • Exposure to performance or load testing tools (e.g. k6, JMeter, Gatling) • Knowledge of quality management standards (e.g. ISO 9001 principles) • ISTQB Foundation Level certification or equivalent • Experience with BDD frameworks such as Cucumber or SpecFlow • Familiarity with .NET / C# application environments