Test & Automation Engineer

Salary: £28,000 - £35,000 + Benefits Level: Mid-weight Location: Redruth (Cornwall), or London Contract: Full-time

Working as part of our delivery team, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality of all the output produced by our software developers. We’re working to increase the amount of automated testing we do, and you will be a key part of that effort.

To succeed in this role, you will need to be methodical, have an analytical mind, and get real pleasure from making things work they way they should.

Your main areas of responsibility are:

• Working from a specification and alongside a Project Lead, designing a test plan for work packages
• Creating and maintaining test scripts
• Creating and maintaining automated test scripts, using tools such as Cypress and Playwright
• Executing manual and automated tests
• Testing APIs using Postman and similar tools
• Collecting test evidence, compiling bug reports, and quality reports
• Triaging bugs reported by clients to ensure they are valid, we can reproduce them, and they comply with our quality policy
• Maintaining documentation and records relating to your work
• Supporting the delivery with content uploading, configuration, and data entry as required
• Actively participating in sprint ceremonies including standups and retrospectives

Skills and experience

Ideally, you will have been working in a testing role for a few years.

You will also need:

• Experience of testing web applications across a number of browsers and devices
• Experience of testing APIs
• Experience of creating and executing automated tests
• A solid understanding of how complex digital systems are put together, beyond just simple websites
• Experience of working in a team where every member takes responsibility for their own work, supported by a project manager

Working arrangements

Our teams work from the office at least 2 days a week, although you’re welcome to use the office as much as you like. This means you must live within a reasonable distance of our office in Pool, Redruth.

We’re open to full- or part-time candidates, and we’re especially keen to hear from anyone looking to return to work after parental leave or a career break.

Salary and benefits

If progression is your thing, over the next few years you will have the opportunity to choose the direction you would like to develop your career in – it could be as a Senior Tester, or as a Test Lead, or as Project Lead, or something else completely.We have mapped out how our team will evolve over the next few years, so there are penty of options to choose from.

To help you get there, you will have the support of an experienced Non-Executive Director with extensive agency experience and whatever training is needed.

Company descriptions

We’re a consultancy-led software development agency. We bring together strategy, design, and software development to help ambitious businesses tackle complex challenges. Our view of the world is pretty simple: technology should create life-changing opportunities. Opportunities for our team, for our clients, and for our planet.

We’re on the road to employee ownership and we’re proud to be shaping the next generation of tech changemakers. Could you be one of them?

Here are some of the benefits the Thought Quarter team enjoy

• 30 days’ holiday
• Paid sick leave
• Paid parental leave
• Access to a huge range of discounts from high-street and online brands

- A £300 training budget to spend on anything you like - work related or not!

• A fair, competitive salary that is reviewed by the board of directorsevery single month
• 30 days’ Autonomy to choose where and when you work(subject to some ground rules)
• A seriously cool office in a seriously cool building with an amazing cafe, pinball machines and breakout spaces
• A monthly team social, plus a summer party for staff and families

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