Your new company
Our client is a global leader in supply chain and logistics, operating at the centre of international trade. With a significant presence across multiple continents, the business manages a vast network of ports, terminals and logistics hubs, enabling the smooth movement of goods between markets, industries, and consumers worldwide.
Over recent years, the company has evolved beyond its heritage in ports and maritime operations to become a true end-to-end supply chain partner. Today, it offers integrated solutions across freight forwarding, transport, warehousing, and digital logistics, supporting clients from production through to final delivery.

Your new role

Our client is looking to appoint a QA Analyst who can take real ownership of quality across a suite of business-critical systems, with a particular emphasis on performance, scalability, and system resilience as the organisation evolves its technology landscape. This role will sit at the centre of that journey, ensuring that platforms are not only functionally correct, but capable of operating at scale within an increasingly modern, Azure-led environment. It will suit someone who is comfortable working across both Legacy and cloud-based systems, and who can bring structure, rigour, and measurable performance standards to how quality is defined and delivered.

From day one, you'll be Embedded within Agile delivery teams and play a key role in shaping and executing performance and non-functional testing strategies. This is a highly hands-on role, with a strong focus on load, stress, and endurance testing, identifying bottlenecks, and working closely with development teams to optimise system behaviour under real-world conditions. While automation forms a key part of the testing approach, this role goes beyond functional automation, requiring a clear understanding of how systems behave under pressure and how to continuously improve performance outcomes. Manual testing will still play a part, particularly in validating releases end-to-end, but the real value comes from ensuring systems are robust, scalable, and fit for purpose in production environments.

You'll also have the opportunity to help shape how performance testing evolves within the business. There is growing interest in adopting modern tooling, cloud-native testing approaches, and AI-assisted techniques to enhance test coverage and efficiency. While prior experience in these areas would be advantageous, the priority is someone who is curious, forward-thinking, and motivated to improve how performance and quality are engineered into the development life cycle.

What you'll need to succeed
From an experience perspective, our client is looking to engage an individual who brings a strong and well-rounded QA background, with a clear track record in both automation and hands-on testing. You will have spent a number of years building and working with automation frameworks, using tools such as Selenium, Playwright or Cypress, and be comfortable coding in languages like Java, JavaScript or Python.

Alongside this, you'll have practical experience of integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps, with a solid understanding of version control through Git.
In addition to automation, there is a real emphasis on performance testing within this role. You'll be confident working with tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling or k6, and understand how to design meaningful performance scenarios, model workloads, and interpret results to provide clear, actionable insights. This isn't just about running tests, it's about understanding system behaviour under load and being able to communicate that effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

A strong grounding in manual testing is equally important. You will have extensive experience across user acceptance testing, regression, end-to-end and API testing, as well as working with data at a SQL level where required. The environment is Agile and includes a mix of enterprise and Legacy systems, so you'll need to be comfortable adapting your approach depending on the context, while still maintaining a consistent level of quality.
Beyond the core skill set, the client is open to individuals who have started to explore more modern testing approaches. Exposure to AI-assisted testing or GenAI tools would be of interest, particularly where this has been used to enhance test design, automation or defect analysis. Experience with cloud environments such as Azure or AWS, alongside familiarity with BDD frameworks, monitoring tools and basic security testing principles, would also be beneficial, but these are seen as nice-to-haves rather than essential requirements.

What you'll get in return

• The package includes the opportunity to earn an annual bonus of up to 10% of salary, split evenly between overall business performance and the achievement of individual objectives, giving you clear line of sight on how your impact is recognised.
• You'll receive 25 days annual leave as standard, alongside a competitive pension scheme with employer contributions matched up to 6%, providing a solid foundation for longer-term financial planning.
• There is also the reassurance of life assurance cover, along with the option to join a BUPA private medical scheme, giving access to enhanced healthcare when you need it.
• In addition, the business offers Medicash and access to a flexible benefits platform, allowing you to tailor a range of perks and discounts to suit your personal needs and lifestyle

What you need to do now
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