Quality Assurance Engineer

London
1 year ago
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About the company:

Driven by a mission to reduce societal inequality through the effective use of data and insights, enabling better outcomes for vulnerable individuals. Their focus spans a range of areas, including Financial Inclusion, Homelessness, Adult Social Care, Children's Services, and Community Safety.

This is an exciting time to join as they are experiencing rapid growth. Their priorities include onboarding new clients, ensuring their platform remains robust and scalable, and developing innovative use cases. Primarily a technology provider, their projects are always geared towards achieving better outcomes for vulnerable residents and improving access to information for frontline staff.

They are seeking individuals who share their vision and are eager to contribute to the ambitious growth plans - 50% growth in 2025.

Location

Primarily remote, with occasional travel for team meetings in London. Office space is available in London for those who prefer to work on-site.

Responsibilities

Support the Testing team in implementing structured QA processes and methods
Ensure high quality standards are met within the software development lifecycle
Manually test all stages and development from internal project work and matching data, to the specification and acceptance criteria
Feedback all bugs, defects and failures collaboratively
Communicate effectively with team leads and project managers to provide feedback on client UAT findings
Support clients with UAT testingSkills and Experience

3yrs+ of experience as a manual QA Engineer
2yrs+ of experience with Azure DevOps
Strong skills in writing manual test scripts
Experience of multiple types of testing, including Regression, Smoke, Performance etc
Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies and processes
Ability to troubleshoot and solve technical problems
Ability to support PDMs with requirements and acceptance criteria
Ability to support clients with UAT
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to manage time and prioritise tasks
Ability to work collaboratively across a cross-functional team including developers, project managers and data scientistsBenefits

Competitive salary reviewed annually.
Opportunity to work for a mission-driven company tackling societal challenges.
Flexible working hours focused on outcomes rather than time logged.
Remote working (excluding occasional team and client meetings).
Professional training and development opportunities.
25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays.
Company pension scheme.
Private medical insurance.
Enhanced parental leave policies.
Cycle-to-work scheme.
Flu vaccinations, eye tests, and VDU glasses reimbursement.
Employee Assistance Programme, including access to mental health support, remote GP consultations, counselling, physiotherapy, and second medical opinions.If interested, please apply to share your CV

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