Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

IRIS Software Group is a leading business software and services provider, one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies. We help organisations to make better business decisions by developing integrated software solutions to minimise admin, make business processes more efficient and give more time to do what’s valued.

We started 45 years ago as an accounting software company and have evolved to be relied on by more than 100,000 customers across 135 countries across a range of business industries. We're also trusted by more than 50 of the Top 100 CPA firms in North America to manage core business operations. Visit irisglobal.com for more information. We invest heavily in development using the latest processes and technologies, driven by our Indian & Romanian Centres of Excellence to build the next generation of cloud-based accounting software, cloud HCM and cloud education solutions.

Almost one million UK employees are managed by our HR software and services, and one in six UK employees are paid through IRIS payroll solutions. We are the largest third-party online tax filer with the UK Government, and we are used by 54 of the top 100 US and 93 of the top 100 UK accountancy firms. We also serve over 12,000 schools and academies, and almost four million UK families use our apps to connect to their child’s school.

In 2024, we won the Payroll Innovation Award at the 2024 Global Payroll Association Awards. We were also awarded Best EdTech product: School Management Solutions in the 2024 Global EdTech Awards and won the Technical Innovation - National Supplier Award at the OnRec Awards 2024. We were also recognised in the Infinigate UK Cloud Awards for EDGE Partner of the Year and Microsoft Security Partner of the Year.

We are proud of our Great Place to Work accolades, including Best Workplaces in Tech, Best Workplaces for Wellbeing and Best Workplaces for Women.

You will join our UK based innovation teams where we encourage close collaboration, equality of voice and a culture of empowerment. Our teams are autonomous on how they deliver whilst aligning to a clear product vision. Our teams are cross functional and are involved in solving impactful customer and business problems. We are fully invested in creating a learning and sharing culture across teams and growing our engineers’ careers. We do not let process stand in the way of our engineers. We are flexible, using empirical data to inform our choices and allowing us to improve all the time.

About the Technology

We are not shy to adopt bleeding edge technology:

• Our micro front-end architecture allows us to use multiple front-end frameworks (React, Vue, Angular 8+) across our digital landscape
• We use serverless technologies such as AWS API Gateway, and Lambda written in Node.JS and .NET
• Our applications are deployed in a distributed microservice architecture, allowing us to deploy, scale and test independently
• We use AWS SNS and SQS for communication in our microservice architecture ensuring our applications remain loosely coupled, resilient and performant
• We utilise cloud native storage technologies such as AWS Aurora, DynamoDB and S3 to provision performant and scalable storage for our applications
• We use infrastructure as code to provision our architecture, allowing us to deliver faster changes to environments
• We build API first and utilise Apigee to expose public APIs

What We Need From You

Are you a dynamic, resourceful, and ambitious Senior QA Engineer? If so, our innovative product development team is searching for someone just like you! We need an individual with the courage to explore, the passion for quality assurance and a heart for team collaboration.

What You'll Do:

• Provide People leadership; communicating, mentoring and coaching other engineers
• Collaborate with the product and development teams in agile ceremonies to understand requirements (refinement, sprint planning, stand ups & retrospectives.)
• Accurately record the output of testing, logging defects with sufficient clarity and managing them throughout the defect life cycle. E.g using testrail
• Design test cases and following testing standards.
• Create and maintain automated test scripts using modern frameworks for integration with our CI/CD pipeline
• Actively ensure testing standards are being upheld and that test cases cover risk areas
• Maintain and improve quality of the applications delivered by the team
• Work with other QA team members across the group via Community of Practice
• Proactive and able to work autonomously, managing own workload to achieve deadlines
• Take an active role in retrospectives to drive improvement to software or processes where applicable

What We're Looking For:

• You should possess at least 4 years’ experience in QA Engineering with a focus on automation testing
• Extensive experience of test automation for UI, API and Load testing using tools such as Specflow, Cypress, Selenium, POSTMAN, JMeter
• Understanding and experience of full software development life cycle from initial scoping and specifications through to testing, release, documentation, and maintenance.
• Experience in regression testing, usability testing, stress testing, acceptance testing
• Understanding of DevOps practices
• Drive for continuous improvement and efficiency
• Agile practitioner with sound knowledge of Scrum methodologies.
• Excellent communication skills and innovative mindset, championing novel ideas and solutions.
• Excellent experience leading and driving on quality within the team