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