About the role

At Zellis, we deliver market-leading payroll and HR software, and we’re proud of the difference our solutions make to organisations across the UK and Ireland. We’re now looking for a skilled Test Engineer to join our Zellis Background Checking (ZBC) product team in Peterborough. This is a fantastic opportunity to work on a growing and innovative solution that plays a vital role in helping organisations make safer, smarter hiring decisions.

This hybrid role offers the flexibility to work remotely with two collaborative days in our Peterborough office.

You’ll be an integral part of the ZBC engineering team, ensuring high-quality software delivery through robust and efficient automated testing. Collaborating with engineers, product specialists, and QA leads, you’ll play a key role in developing, improving, and maintaining test automation frameworks to support our continuous integration and deployment pipelines.

• Design, implement, and maintain automated test cases aligned with business requirements.
• Monitor and improve existing test suites to enhance product reliability and performance.
• Conduct thorough analysis of test results and escalate issues where appropriate.
• Collaborate closely with developers and product owners to ensure coverage of all customer requirements.
• Use Azure DevOps (ADO) to manage test tasks, bugs, and regressions efficiently.
• Actively contribute to regression planning and test case documentation.
• Champion agile testing principles and CI/CD best practices across the team.

Skills & experience

We’re after someone who’s as passionate about quality as we are — someone who thrives in a fast-paced agile environment and enjoys collaborating with others to achieve excellence.

• Minimum 2 years' experience with Java and Cucumber.
• Strong knowledge of Selenium or Playwright for UI automation.
• Proven experience writing test cases using Gherkin syntax.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Familiarity with the HR or background checking domain is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a proactive mindset.
• Clear and confident communicator with a collaborative approach.

Benefits & culture

At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.

Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:

• Unstoppable together.
• Always learning.
• Make it count.
• Think scale.

Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we’re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you’ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that’s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.

We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you’ll receive:

• A competitive base salary.
• 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance 4x salary.
• Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%.
• A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.