Job Description

About the Job

Are you the kind of tester who takes personal responsibility for the quality of what ships – someone who doesn’t wait for a test plan but looks at a feature and already knows where the risks are? Then this role is for you.

Your work will directly impact the 500+ organisations and 180,000+ creators who use Zealous. We’re a submissions management platform trusted by clients like the Saatchi Gallery, British Library, and Cass Arts.

We’ve been around for 15 years and we’re small on purpose – no layers of management, no unnecessary process. You’ll join our existing development team in Egypt and report to our QA Lead.

The Role

We’re looking for someone who is both strategic and happy to get their hands dirty. You’ll own QA across the Zealous platform – building automated test suites, doing hands-on exploratory testing, and writing bug reports developers can act on. You’ll decide what needs deep testing and what needs a quick smoke test. This is your function to shape; we’ll give you context and support, but we won’t micromanage how you do it.

Day to day, you will:

• Define and run the QA strategy – test planning, automation, exploratory testing
• Build and maintain automated test suites for regression and end-to-end testing
• Write clear bug reports that give developers everything they need to fix things fast
• Work with the dev and design team to catch problems early, not after the fact
• Integrate and optimise testing into our CI/CD pipeline
• Expand into performance, accessibility, and security testing as the role develops

Your role grows as we grow – you’ll shape how quality works at Zealous, and that foundation will extend to future QA hires.

Requirements

Required:

• 5+ years in software testing, comfortable with both manual and automated approaches
• Hands-on browser-based automation (e.g. Selenium)
• Solid API testing (Postman, REST Assured, or similar)
• Ability to write and maintain test scripts (Java, JavaScript)
• CI/CD experience (Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins) and integrating tests into pipelines
• Strong spoken and written English
• Ability to manage your own time and priorities without being chased

Bonus:

• Testing platforms with complex permissions, file uploads, and form-heavy workflows
• Accessibility testing (WCAG)
• Curiosity about AI-powered testing — intelligent test generation, visual regression, self-healing scripts
• Performance and security testing
• A clear sense of where AI adds value in testing, and where it doesn’t