Quality Assurance Analyst

Title: Quality Assurance Analyst

Contract Type: FTC until 29th February 2028, Full-Time, 35 hours

Salary: Starting from £57,094 per annum (London weighted salary) or £49,502 per annum (Regional salary), dependant on experience

Grade: 10

Reporting Office: London, Stratford or Manchester, Trafford

Persona: Agile Worker: 20% - 40% of contractual hours to be worked from reporting office/working location (hybrid working)

Closing Date: 16th August 2026

Interview Date: W/c 24th August 2026, in-person interview

Please click here for the role profile - Quality Assurance Analyst Role Profile.docx

Benefits include: Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution), 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays, Westfield Health Cash Plan, non-contributory life assurance, up to 21 hours volunteering paid days, lifestyle benefits, Employee Assistance Programme and many more…

Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.

L&Q reserves the right to not progress applications for candidates who have had one unsuccessful application/interview processes with L&Q for the same or similar role in the previous 12 months.

L&Q reserve the right not to progress applications from candidates with 3 or more unsuccessful applications/interview processes with L&Q in the previous 24 months.

Join our Quality Assurance Team at L&Q:

L&Q is one of the UK’s largest housing associations and providers of social and affordable homes. We house around 250,000 people primarily across Greater London and Greater Manchester. Our purpose is simple – to provide social homes and landlord services that everyone can be proud of.

We have a new opportunity! We are recruiting for a Quality Assurance Analyst. It’s an exciting time of change at L&Q. Our Business Applications team is implementing a new Target Operating Model and is being restructured to support this journey, this role forms part of that process. We continuously invest, grow, and transform our business to provide a better service to customers old and new.

As a Quality Assurance Analyst it will be your responsibility to ensure software products and solutions are thoroughly tested and are fit for purpose, as well as ensuring they meet functional and non-functional requirements.

We are looking for a forward thinking and innovative Quality Assurance Analyst; someone who is committed to delivering high quality software and also to help identify and verify 3rd party applications.

This role will report into a Lead Quality Assurance Analyst and will work in a small team of other Quality Assurance Analysts.

If this sounds like you, we would love for you to apply!

Your impact in the role:

• Acts as the Testing & Quality Assurance lead in the squad or project team to which they are allocated. Works with squad and project team members to identify test and QA requirements and develops test strategies and plans, covering functional, integration, and (where appropriate) user acceptance testing.
• Be responsible for creation and execution of the tests, works with team members and carries out hands on testing themselves. Monitors testing progress, errors, fixes, and re-testing.
• Provide clear up to date and timely reporting and feedback to Squads and Project Managers to enable them to prioritise remaining work etc.
• Work closely with scrum/agile and other Engineers to continually evolve the use of modern software development and deployment methodologies, including scripting, automated testing etc.

What you'll bring:

• ISTQB Software Testing certification
• Good understanding of and experience working with structured test methods and processes

• Experience of test management and defect management using Azure DevOps.

• Knowledge and experience of best practice in both manual and automated testing

• Experience of testing differing types of applications and scenarios, eg web, data and mobile applications.

• Knowledge of Azure Data factory

• Medium to strong SQL skill set (Understanding and writing)

• Knowledge of Data model and dimensional model

• Reporting skill set

• Power BI and visualisation skillset - desirable

• Previous experience of Data testing, ETL, testing large volume of data.

• Experience of working with cross-functional delivery squad or scrum team working with Product Owners, Scrum Master etc

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during this process, including application stage, please email [email removed]

About L&Q:

We’re one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for people’s health, happiness and security. Our purpose is simple – to provide social homes and landlord services that everyone can be proud of.

250,000 people call our properties ‘home’, and we’re proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South East and North West of England.

People are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate values, which outline our core expectations and should be demonstrated at all times, and all levels, when representing L&Q – click here to read more.

At L&Q, we know that diversity and inclusion make us stronger – and they’re at the heart of everything we do.

When we recruit, we look at what really matters: your skills, experience, and potential. We’re proud to be recognised for creating an inclusive workplace. We’re a Disability Confident Leader (Level 3) and we’ve introduced our own Recruitment Advocate scheme to make sure every step of our hiring process is fair, transparent, and consistent. It’s all part of our commitment to ending discrimination and making L&Q a place where everyone feels welcome. Find out more here.

Sustainability is also at the heart of what we do. We recognise the responsibility we hold as one of the UK’s largest housing associations.

Click here to find out more about L&Q and why you should join us!

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