QA Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 3, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 14, 2026.
Role Summary
As a QA Engineer you will be responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and stability of our IPTV, digital signage, and enterprise cloud-based solutions. You will execute the full QA lifecycle - from planning and building test systems to identifying defects, reproducing issues, and validating releases - ensuring our products meet both business and user expectations.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the quality of assigned product areas, ensuring releases meet product manager and end-user expectations.
- Collaborate with product managers and developers to create clear, effective test plans and test cases for end-to-end workflows.
- Implement and execute manual test plans across Linux, Windows, macOS, and web-based interfaces.
- Build, configure, and maintain test systems, including virtualised environments (VMWare) and cloud-based deployments.
- Identify, reproduce, and document defects with clear, step-by-step replication paths.
- Work closely with development teams to triage issues and verify fixes.
- Support the QA team in preparing and releasing software builds.
- Review release notes, user guides, and technical documentation to ensure accuracy and clarity.
- Provide meaningful feedback on technical design documents and quality specifications.
- Gain deep knowledge of Uniguest technologies, hardware/software interactions, and system behaviours.
Required Skills & Experience
- 2+ Years previous experience within a Test Engineering position.
- Good knowledge of scripting language (e.g. PHP and bash).
- Working knowledge of Linux.
- Knowledge of cloud networking architecture and cloud operations.
- Experience with virtualisation technologies, in particular VMWare.
- Excellent communication skills internally and externally.
- Experience with the implementation and/or operations of medium to large-scale enterprise cloud infrastructures.
- Experience of testing web-based applications on Windows and Mac OS X.
- A good understanding of data security and privacy concerns desirable along with experience in Jira and Confluence.
- Ability to automate testing preferably using Python.
- Experience with API testing tools (Postman, Curl etc)
- Knowledge of IPTV, digital signage, or media streaming technologies advantageous.
What We Offer
- Competitive Benefits Package*
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Support for personal and professional well-being.
- Career Development: Opportunities for advancement within Uniguest growing global organisation.
- Employee Recognition Rewards Program: Acknowledging outstanding contributions.
- Dynamic Work Environment: Collaborate with a passionate team across our Development & Quality team.
- This position is remote-first, offering flexibility. From time to time, you may be required to attend our Reading or Poole offices for key meetings, project work or collaborative sessions. These visits will be planned in advance.
* Benefits package will depend on your position, location, and other eligibility requirements.
About Uniguest
Uniguest is the global leader in providing highly secure, fully managed customer-facing technology solutions on an outsourced basis to the hospitality, senior living, speciality retail, education and corporate sectors. Our suite of turnkey consumer-facing technology solutions includes hardware and software solution packages, system implementation, and 24/7/365 multi-lingual support for public space kiosks, purpose-build kiosks (PC, iMac, tablet), digital signage, interactive TV, tablets, remote printing, and more - all designed to deliver a consistent and safe experience to our client's customers.
Uniguest is committed to equal employment opportunity and to providing all people equal access to employment without regard to personal characteristics that are unrelated to their ability, performance, or qualifications. Uniguest prohibits discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, colour, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, gender identity, veteran status, disability, genetic information, age, or any other basis protected by law.