Quality Assurance (QA) Automation engineer with Lead skills

About Us

Our company provides the latest technologies that allow transport operators to better understand the needs of their passengers. We have developed award-winning SaaS products such as Passenger Assistance, revolutionising assistance in the rail industry.

Our culture is important to us. We’ve built an engineering team who are always respectful of each other, stop at nothing to produce great services and put in the time & effort to become the best engineers they can be.

We have multiple SaaS products and our tech stack therefore varies. A typical product consists of web & native mobile app frontends, Ruby on Rails backend API services and integration points with 3rd party services.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced and committed Quality Assurance (QA) Automation engineer who can lead a QA team or has the potential and ambition to be the leader of a QA team, with responsibilities including:

• Understand user journeys and functional requirements provided by Business Analyst
• Design test plans and write test cases to verify requirements
• Implement, execute and maintain automated tests at user interface level such as web and mobile apps
• Archive and catalogue test execution and result, for example in the format of video capture, when needed for auditing purpose
• Provide domain expertise in QA processes and testing methodologies to other parts of the business, for example, advise developers on the design of their lower level tests.
• Liaise with business clients to facilitate their acceptance testing

About You

We believe that to be successful in the role, you’ll need the following:

• Passionate about product quality and user experience
• Experience implementing and maintaining automate tests for modern web and/or mobile apps
• Working knowledge of a QA automation framework, such as Selenium and Appium, and its associated programming language
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Excellent attention to detail

The following are not essential but would be well-received by us in respect to this role:

• Knowledge in specialist areas such as accessibility and information security
• Computer Science or Software Engineering background and experience in developer role

Perks of the Job

A friendly and cohesive team,

28 Days holiday per annum, inc Bank Holidays,

Company Pension Scheme,

Cycle & Tech Scheme,

Work from home,

Free flu jab

Company laptop

Salary: Competitive

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Bike to work scheme
• Company pension

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Test automation: 1 year (preferred)

Work remotely:

• Yes

COVID-19 precaution(s):

• Remote interview process