Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer

About This Role

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Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer | Ecofamilies Digital Platform

About Ecofamilies

Ecofamilies (www.ecofamilies.co.uk) a UK based innovative digital platform designed to redefine the relationship between consumers and merchants, with a strong focus on emerging economies across Asia and the Gulf region, followed by expansion into African, European and all other regions in the world.

The first and largest family marketplace, Ecofamilies is introducing as an advanced and super cashback platform, we enable users to earn instant cashback and performance-based rewards on everyday transactions, while empowering businesses with integrated marketing, customer engagement, and growth solutions.

By combining financial incentives with smart digital advertising solutions, EcoFamilies creates a dynamic ecosystem where both users and merchants’ benefit, collaborate, and grow together.

Our platform is thoughtfully designed for young professionals, middle-income earners, and growing households. We reward families for purchases they already make, transforming everyday spending into structured savings that support meaningful life goals such as education, housing, travel, and emergency funds. With Eco Families, every transaction becomes a step toward a secure and financially stable future.

We specifically serve individuals and families who often find their income stretched before the end of the month, those seeking smarter ways to manage expenses without compromising their quality of life, we give relief the nation to overcome inflation gap which eats their income unknowingly.

Role Purpose

We are looking for a rigorous, detail-oriented Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer to take full ownership of product quality across the Ecofamilies ecosystem. In this role, you will implement comprehensive end-to-end automation strategies, perform manual exploratory validation, and construct bulletproof testing frameworks. You will directly safeguard our payment loops, multi-tenant directory lookups, user workflows, and ensure complete data compliance within UK regulatory baselines.

What You'll Do

Key Responsibilities

• Test Automation Engineering: Design, execute, and scale robust automation test suites across web applications and API frameworks using modern tools (Cypress, Playwright, or Selenium).
• Continuous Integration (CI/CD): Embed automated regression, functional, and smoke test layers directly into our Git-driven CI/CD development pipelines to intercept issues prior to deployment.
• API Logic Verification: Perform structural integration testing on core platform microservices, validating complex multi-vendor splits, automated marketplace payouts, and directory endpoints (Postman, SoapUI).
• Defect Governance & Reporting: Track, isolate, document, and manage functional software anomalies within Jira, collaborating directly with backend and frontend developers to secure resolution pathways.
• Manual & Exploratory Testing: Conduct exploratory validation across responsive web formats to evaluate critical end-user touchpoints, subscription activations, and user registration flows.
• Data Privacy & Security Testing: Validate structural session behaviors, cookies, and data deletion vectors to maintain strict alignment with UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.
• Performance & Cross-Browser Stability: Oversee cross-browser capability testing and execute core load/stress benchmarks to guarantee application stability during traffic spikes.

Requirements

Candidate Requirements & Experience

• Professional Experience: 3+ years of documented commercial experience working as a QA Engineer, Software Tester, or SDET within a modern digital platform or e-commerce marketplace landscape.
• Automation Frameworks: Deep, practical mastery of automated browser tools (Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium) and programmatic script construction using JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python.
• API Engineering Validation: Proven expertise checking, mocking, and mapping RESTful or GraphQL API environments with specialized toolsets like Postman.
• Agile Systems Alignment: Strong background working inside structured Agile/Scrum environments, actively steering sprint reviews, bug grooming sessions, and writing comprehensive test matrices.
• UK Legal & Data Literacies: Practical awareness regarding how user data fields are isolated, stored, and managed to comfortably preserve UK GDPR compliance rules.
• Communication Frameworks: Excellent analytical capability combined with professional, objective communication to convey technical failure paths clearly across multi-disciplinary engineering pods.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary scaled to your technical platform testing capabilities.
• Flexible hybrid working matrix balancing home comfort with in-office synergy.
• Statutory UK workplace pension plan with explicit corporate auto-enrolment contributions.
• 28 days of statutory annual leave (inclusive of standard UK Bank Holidays).
• Tailored equipment budget to secure your preferred local hardware setup (Mac/PC).
• Clear, dedicated paths to professional development, tech stack training courses, and certifications.

How to Apply

Please submit your detailed curriculum vitae (CV) and a brief summary or portfolio link showcasing relevant machine learning models or digital platform personalization integrations you have deployed directly via our website portal or apply to careers@ecofamilies.co.uk

Equal Opportunities & Inclusion Statement

Ecofamilies Ltd is an equal opportunity employer committed to celebrating diversity and creating an inclusive working space for all employees. All hiring allocations are decided strictly on the basis of candidate credentials, technical capability, operational needs, and individual merit, without regard to race, nationality, gender identity, age, or disability status, perfectly matching the frameworks outlined within the UK Equality Act 2010.