Test Engineer

Test Engineer

£ Competitive + Benefits

Cambridge or Home based with relevant travel

About the Company

We are a fast growing and successful GovTech company. We are dynamic and forward thinking, with great ambition. You will have the chance to share your knowledge and make your presence felt. With our people at the core of everything we do, we don’t want people to ‘fit in’, diversity and difference are essential to creativity. We want people to thrive in our open and collaborative environment and be an integral part of our close knit team.

So, if you are looking for something more than ‘just a job’, you are in the right place. We have big company benefits, including Private Medical Insurance, Life Assurance and Pension, as well as Volunteering Days, Health & Wellbeing benefits and social activities.

If this all appeals and you have the ambition to match ours, then read on!

The Job Role

As a Test Engineer, you'll be responsible for overseeing product quality across the company’s product suite. You will test any new features and ensure that quality guidelines and processes are followed. You will understand the broader suite of product offerings and how each product interacts from an integration perspective.

You will use off the shelf tooling and your own development skills to automate as much as possible of the repetitive / repeating tasks and sustain a focus on achieving ever quicker, more reliable tests and better and more standardised products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with Developers to review their work against explicit ‘acceptance criteria’, non-expert business user expectation and good practice in web applications
• Build and execute structured steps for regression, stress, UX and functional testing
• Communicate regularly with lead developers so they understand your workload and the rate at which testing can be completed
• Maintain good testing notes and records (using Jira) as well as suggesting appropriate improvements
• Contribute to daily stand-ups and regular retrospectives to support increasing efficiency and effectiveness

Is this You?

Essential:

• Good communications skills so you can explain your findings to your colleagues
• Strong sense of logic and process with meticulous attention to detail
• Enjoyment of working in teams, collaborating closely with others to help them (and you) to become more effective
• Ability to self manage and be responsible for handling a backlog of testing tasks efficiently
• Experience working with software, finding and diagnosing issues (for example in Testing or DevOps)
• Ability to learn new systems and technology quickly
• Good understanding of what a consistent and outstanding user experience should look like

Desired:

• Excellent problem solving skills within complex and interconnected technical environments
• Knowledge of local authority services would be beneficial
• Salesforce experience would be beneficial
• Basic understanding of HTML/CSS/JSON would be beneficial
• Basic understanding of automated testing would be beneficial

How to Apply

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