Portfolio are proud to be exclusively representing an award-wining, Software provider based in the heart of Manchester, providing people solutions to over 50,000 clients worldwide. Our client is looking for a Principal Quality Assurance Analyst who is highly experienced with Cypress, Java Script, C#, Puppeteer, Play Write, Postman and Newman . This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your technical skills and be seen as an expert in your field and be the mentor for a lot of your junior colleagues. Key Responsibilities/Skills: Experience of various testing techniques and strategies. Able to plan how to test a feature and make appropriate decisions on the approach and technology. Have a pragmatic approach to understanding quality vs delivery expectations and act accordingly to produce a high-quality product. Able to communicate a complicated problem succinctly accurately and coherently to a team with different skill sets. Exhibit cross functional behaviour and support other competencies within the company, department, team, and guild. Able to negotiate and compromise solutions and find the balance between best practice, expediency, and longer-term maintenance costs. Demonstrate, discuss, and permeate current good practice in the skills specific to your professional family across other members of your professional family. An ability, or willingness to use, learn and suggest various tools and methods to improve test coverage and improve software delivery timescales. Use available data to analyse and identify underlying issues, gaps in test coverage, impact, and user behaviour to improve quality of the delivered product. Make judgment calls about whether a software issue is tolerable in production and if the impact of that is tolerable. Able to triage, repeat and identify software issues in test environments. Describe the issue succinctly and coherently to expedite their resolution. Make judgment calls about whether a software issue is tolerable in production and if the impact of that is tolerable. Able to negotiate and compromise solutions and find the balance between best practice, expediency, and longer-term maintenance costs. Benefits: 25 days' holiday, plus bank holidays. Day off on your birthday. Perkbox discounts. Holidays increase after 2- and 5-years' service. Pension Plan and Life Insurance. Access to Employee Assistance Programme. Company incentives, access to discount schemes. P46185NB INDMANS