QA Engineer - Full / Part Time

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QA Engineer - Full / Part Time

Leeds, West Yorkshire

Are you an eagle-eyed QA Engineer looking for your next challenge? Want to make a positive, lasting impact on a product that’s used by millions around the world? If so, our client would love to hear from you.

The Company

Our client is an exciting EdTech company who are making waves in their industry. On a mission to make the student experience even more awesome, they provide award-winning technology solutions to the higher education market.

Their unique app store combines multiple technologies to deliver any app, anywhere - allowing customers to liberate software from campus PC labs and deliver it on-demand to any device, including student BYOD.

Now, our client is bringing their QA function in-house and are looking for either a junior QA Engineer to join them on a full time or part time basis OR an experienced QA Engineer to join them on a part time basis.

The Benefits

- Experienced engineer salary: up to £40,000 pro rata (part time only)

- Junior engineer salary: up to £25,000 for full time roles (pro rata for part time roles)

- Pension

- The chance to work as part of an awesome, close-knit team

- Health insurance - including discounted gym membership

- Ongoing investment in your development

- Help improve the learning experience for students across the globe

- Unlimited holidays

Recently voted runners up for the Techworld Best Place to Work in Tech Award 2018, our client’s employees love their work, and they hope you will too.

Our client believes that in investing in their people is the key to success, which is why you’ll have access to excellent training and plenty of personal development opportunities. When you are at your best, the company is too.

This brand-new role offers the chance to make your mark with while helping to improve the student experience. What’s more, our client is entirely flexible regarding working hours, meaning you can tailor your role to suit your needs.

Your Role

As a QA Engineer, you’ll ensure that users continue to have an amazing experience while using our client’s flagship product.

Reporting to the Product Manager, you’ll work as part of the Development Team and will play a major part in ensuring that everything our client releases is robust and reliable.

Specifically, you will:

- Review the impact of new features and identify the best way to confirm that functionality matches original requirements

- Write automated tests and/or define test processes for manual execution

- Maintain the test pack

- Update product documentation to ensure that users are always up-to-date with the latest features

- Maintain your knowledge of new testing strategies and tools (and share it with the team if you discover anything especially awesome)

About You

To be considered as a QA Engineer, you’ll need an understanding of the following QA processes and practices:

- Test plans, regression testing and requirement traceability

- General testing techniques, including: automation, unit testing, integration testing, functional testing, end-to-end testing, acceptance testing, performance testing and web service testing

It would be great if you also have some of the following:

- A good understanding of QA best practice

- The ability to understand software requirements and interpret acceptance criteria and derive tests accordingly

- Experience of testing in an Agile environment

- Experience of GUI testing, cross browser testing and cross platform testing

- Familiarity with web applications and system integration technologies including web services and APIs

- Basic knowledge of JavaScript, PHP and Zend Framework

- QA and/or testing qualifications, such as an ISTBQ Foundation in Software Testing

The above list is by no means exhaustive - our client is eager to hear from QA Engineers with varying levels of experience.

Other companies may call this role Quality Assurance Engineer, QA Engineer, QA Tester, Software Tester, Quality Assurance Tester, Software Quality Tester, Test Analyst or Test Technician.

This role is available on a full or part time basis, and for the right candidate, our client is very flexible regarding the hours and days worked.

Webrecruit and our clients are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

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