Job Title: QA Engineer
Contract: Permanent, Full-time (37.5 hours per week) Monday to Friday
Location: Home based, fully remote within the UK or based in our Sheffield or Plymouth office
Salary: Up to £29,000, depending on experience

As a QA Engineer at Medigold Health, you will play a key role in ensuring the quality, reliability and performance of our digital applications, working closely with developers, product owners and delivery teams to support high-quality releases. You will design and execute detailed test suites based on BDD requirements, using tools such as Jira, Gherkin and Playwright to validate functionality across web applications and APIs.

From exploratory and regression testing to cross-browser and cross-environment validation, you will help identify issues early and provide clear, actionable feedback that drives continuous improvement. You will also contribute to the growth of our automated testing capability, extending and maintaining Playwright test suites and helping evolve our testing tools and processes.

This is a great opportunity for a quality-driven, technically curious tester who enjoys problem-solving and collaboration, and who wants to develop their career in a supportive, forward-thinking technology environment, whether working fully remote within the UK or from one of our offices in Sheffield or Plymouth.

Main Objectives

• Produce detailed test suites and executions against BDD requirements within Jira.

• Work against those BDD requirements using gherkin syntax for easy correlation.

• Provide and track system feedback during design and testing phases that ensure highest quality delivery.

• Continually improve the used testing toolset finding new and better ways of ensuring our applications are at their very best.

• Help extend and maintain test automation suites using Playwright tooling.

Specific Responsibilities

• Testing web application UIs to defined acceptance criteria.

• Extending and maintaining Playwright test suites using Playwright tooling.

• Testing REST API services using Postman.

• Cross environment and browser testing.

• Test suite creation using gherkin syntax from requirement specifications and acceptance criteria.

• Replicating and debugging issues, gathering recreation steps as required.

• Using JIRA to log and manage issues.

• Product regression testing.

• Participation in sprint planning and daily stand-ups.

Requirements for this role

Essential

• Experience in exploratory web application testing

• Experience in REST API Testing with Postman

• Some experience or demonstrable learning of Playwright

• Basic MS SQL skills through SSMS

• Some experience in reporting test outcome

• Good time-management skills

• Good interpersonal skills

• Flexible in approach

• Demonstrable organisational skills

• Business awareness and understanding of business requirements of IT

• Problem-solving and good analytical skills

Desirable

• Ideally some experience with test management software

Our Company Benefits

• 31 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays, increasing with length of service

• Pension Scheme

• Access to Company benefits and discount portal

• Access to a Health Cash Plan

• Free eyecare vouchers

• Cycle to work scheme

• Access to confidential Employee Assistance programme

• Interactive mental health and wellbeing app