Senior Software Test Engineer

The Opportunity

You will work as part of a fun, and highly motivated cross-functional team (Development, Test, Product, UX) focused on continuously delivering value to our customers in a sustainable manner. We have an agile culture with a focus on sustainable work practices that allow you the best possible work-life balance. We believe in a collaborative work environment.

The successful candidate will join one of our backend teams who are currently building our Next-Generation Platform using the latest technology.

Writing high quality, secure and scalable code, we follow agile culture to develop exciting products that meet our clients current & future needs.

The Person

Foremost you are passionate about quality, are naturally curious, and have a habit of asking insightful questions. You will be engaging in both manual and automated testing, and the role will involve testing both front-end and back-end services.

You are a real team player who cares about the customer and business outcomes. You enjoy working closely with teammates to find and fix important problems. You are comfortable teaching others about testing, working with their teammates to build quality into the platform and prioritise prevention over detection

You have invested in your own self-growth. You will have strong testing and critical thinking skills, the ability to analyse risk, a proactive approach, and a proven record of driving continuous improvement in teams .

Key Responsibilities:

• Working closely with Development, Test, Product, UX, and others to ensure quality features are delivered to customers.
• Establishing and managing an effective whole team test approach whereby the whole team understands and participates in testing.
• Working with the team to ensure that quality is considered from the earliest stages of projects.
• Coaching the team to develop their testing skills and overall quality approach and drive continuous quality culture improvements in the team.
• Ensure the team are implementing Automation at the appropriate test levels.
• Ensure the team considers all relevant quality characteristics such as Security, Scalability, and Observability.
• Facilitate quality-focused team sessions such as risk workshops and bug bashes.
• Understands the platform and how customers use it.

Candidate Expertise Required:

• 7+ years experience in a Software testing/Quality role working with web technologies/SaaS.
• Proficient testing in an Agile environment.
• Experience in establishing and managing an effective whole team test approach.
• Experienced in testing complex systems and comfortable with technical conversations.
• Proficiency in at least one language (e.g. python, ruby, java).
• Preferably experienced with test automation at both the UI and API. Experience creating automation frameworks is advantageous.

Nice to Have

• • Effective communication (written and oral) and teamwork behaviour within a diverse team environment.
  • Building good working relationships with team members and other teams.
  • Strong problem-solving skills.
  • Experience in applying different techniques, tools and approaches based on context.
  • Proficient in Exploratory Testing.
  • History of continually learning and adapting to the latest trends and technology.
  • Test community involvement e.g. attending conferences/meetups, blogging, contributing to opensource projects, etc.
  • Experience testing in the cloud (AWS)
  • Non-functional Specialities such as performance testing
  • Comfortable with Linux commands and database queries.
  • Experience as a Quality Coach would be of benefit for this role