QA Engineer (Automation & Manual)
Location: Halifax, West Yorkshire / Hybrid
Type: Full-time
Salary: £40,000–£50,000 depending on experience
About UMA
UMA (ask UMA) is a workplace operating platform that connects people, spaces and buildings. We help organisations run smarter, more efficient workplaces, covering everything from desk booking, room scheduling and visitor management to space analytics and API-driven smart building integrations. Our platform blends hybrid working with real-time occupancy and environmental data, helping customers make better use of their space and cut real estate costs. We're an open, integration-friendly platform working with enterprise software and workplace hardware alike, serving customers globally.
The role
We're looking for a QA Engineer to join our existing QA team, working across both manual and automated testing. You'll partner closely with our current QA staff to either extend our existing automation suite or help build a fresh one from the ground up. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys the full breadth of testing, not just writing scripts, but digging into the product, understanding how things really work, and catching issues before our users do. Because we integrate heavily with workplace hardware, you'll also get hands-on with testing new devices as they come into the platform.
What you'll do
- Design, build and maintain automated tests, ideally in Cypress (though we're open to other frameworks if that's where your experience lies)
- Carry out thorough manual testing, including API and integration testing
- Test integrations with new workplace hardware, helping us validate devices as they're brought into the platform
- Work alongside our existing QA team to tackle both manual and automation efforts together
- Help shape our automation strategy, whether that means growing what we already have or starting something new
- Contribute to test planning, coverage and quality standards across the team
What we're looking for
- Strong background in manual testing, including API integration testing
- Solid experience with test automation (Cypress preferred, but other tools are welcome)
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
- Strong AI literacy - a good grasp of how to use AI tools effectively and where they add real value to testing and day-to-day work
- A collaborative approach; you'll be working shoulder to shoulder with other QA staff
- A friendly, open work ethic and a genuine willingness to learn and share knowledge
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Jira (desirable, not essential)
- Experience introducing or scaling an automation suite from scratch
- Experience testing hardware integrations or working with physical devices
Who you are
You're curious, practical and happy to muck in across whatever the team needs, whether that's a tricky manual test session, validating a new piece of hardware, or building out the automation framework. You care about quality, you communicate openly, and you're keen to keep growing your skills.
What we offer
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- Company pension scheme
- Hybrid working - 2-3 days a week in our Halifax office
- The chance to shape our QA approach and work across software and cutting-edge workplace hardware
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £40,000.00-£50,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Sick pay
- Work from home
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Work Location: Hybrid remote in Halifax (West Yorkshire)
