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This role focuses on thoughtful, risk-based testing, clear communication, and collaboration.\nYou’ll work closely with engineering and product teams to ensure features are fit for purpose, reliable, and releasable, while contributing to continuous improvement of our QA approach. This role would sit embedded into one of our Development teams.\nKey Responsibilities:\nOwn manual testing for assigned features from refinement to release \nDesign and execute meaningful test scenarios, not just scripted cases \nPerform functional, regression, exploratory, and integration testing \nValidate requirements and acceptance criteria \nIdentify risk, edge cases, and user-impacting defects early \nProvide clear go/no-go quality assessments for releases \nRaise clear, actionable defects with strong reproduction steps \nAssess severity, priority, and customer impact \nWork closely with developers to support root-cause analysis \nRetest fixes thoroughly and verify acceptance \nEngage actively in backlog refinement, planning, and retros \nChallenge unclear or incomplete requirements constructively \nCommunicate quality status, risks, and confidence clearly \nContribute ideas to improve QA practices and consistency \nSupport regression and release testing activities \nResponsible for contributing towards the organisation's information security strategy, ensuring the protection of sensitive data and compliance with relevant regulations, while managing risk and adhering to all established security measures\nWork in a hybrid model (approx. 2 days currently onsite at Solihull Blythe Valley)\nRequirements\nStrong manual testing experience in Agile environments \nExperience with at least one automation tool or framework (e.g. Playwright, Cypress, Selenium)\nSolid understanding of testing principles and techniques \nAbility to test across browsers, devices, and environments \nExperience with defect tracking tools (e.g. Jira, Azure DevOps) \nAPI testing basics (e.g. Postman) \nComfortable validating data (basic SQL or equivalent) \nFamiliarity with version control (Git) is a plus \nThinks like a user, not just a tester \nFocuses on risk and impact, not box-ticking \nCares deeply about shipped quality \nShift left experience in the development cycle\nDesirable Experience:\nTesting dealer management systems or automotive retail software. \nFamiliarity with service scheduling, parts inventory, warranty workflows and aftersales processes. \nExperience integrating Playwright or similar tools into Microsoft tech stacks and cloud CI pipelines. \nBenefits\nCompetitive salary based on experience \nBonus scheme \nShare scheme \nHybrid working \n25 days holiday plus all UK bank holidays \n4x life assurance \nEnhanced family-friendly leave - 5 months' full pay for maternity or adoption, plus 2 weeks' fully paid paternity/adoption leave and an extra 2 weeks to use as paid annual leave within 24 months of birth or adoption \nEmployee Assistance Programme (EAP) - free, confidential 24/7 support for you and your immediate family (including counselling, legal & financial advice, and wellbeing resources) \nOngoing training & professional development \nCycle to Work scheme - save up to 40% on bikes and accessories through salary sacrifice \nEyecare vouchers - free eye test and contribution towards prescription glasses \nRegular social events \nExclusive gym (Virgin Active) membership scheme \nAbout Us:\nOur story began more than 20 years ago, but right from the start, it has been rooted in the specific needs of the automotive industry. As automotive professionals as well as technologists, we wanted to build practical technology solutions that were designed around how automotive businesses work, recognising what makes them different. Pinewood.AI is an unparalleled Automotive Intelligence Platform that enables automotive retail customers and OEMs to drive growth and profitability throughout every aspect of their business.\nPinewood’s cloud-based, secure end-to-end ecosystem unlocks the value of every customer. Our vision is to be the full-service technology partner that helps automotive retailers and OEMs run more efficiently and increase revenue by making better commercial and business decisions more easily.\nWhy Join Pinewood.AI?\nThis is a rare opportunity to shape the QA function in a fast-growing, innovative automotive software company. You’ll work with modern tools and approaches, have a direct impact on release quality, and play a pivotal role in helping us deliver outstanding products to automotive retailers and OEMs across the globe. 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