QA Automation Engineer (Web/Mobile)

Airbox Systems Limited; Wantage; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job description

Why Airbox? You're more likely to love your work when that work has a purpose, when it's meaningful and when it's protecting lives. And, at Airbox Systems, it will. Here's why.

We are driven by passion and great people who share our enthusiasm for trying to make the world a better place, our friendly team includes individuals with backgrounds in military, aviation, and law enforcement. Our experience brings first-hand insight into frontline operations in the air and on the ground to enable cutting-edge concepts for improving the service that we deliver.

At Airbox, our values can be described as behavioral guidance. They are the principles and beliefs that provide a cohesive vision and define who we are as a business. In doing so, they define our organisation internally, and externally with our stakeholders and customers. In essence, they are our “true north” that help us to navigate our organisation through prosperous times as well as uncertain periods. Our company beliefs and values are embodied in our culture. Whilst we celebrate the diversity of the people we work with, there are certain values and attributes all of us share – whatever your background, these are the qualities we are looking for in the people we hire: Commitment, Positive Realism, Ethics, Accountability, Humanity, Quality, and Delight.

What this role is about:

Our products are used in life-saving missions; loved, trusted and used daily by the Emergency Services, Police, Military and more. It is essential that they are working to the highest standard and that new features land smoothly. That is where you come in. We need a skilled QA Engineer to work with our Development Team on ensuring they are just that.

What you’ll do:

• Testing Development team code and products, documenting issues into a database and assigning appropriately to the development team, seeing through to resolution.
• Producing high quality bug reports covering description, accurate reproduction steps and severity.
• Test different phases of our software ensuring that it is release ready, filing detailed bugs as required.
• Work with Product Managers on testing new features and flows being released.
• Writing and executing test plans.
• Executing new and regression tests.
• Maintain good rapport with Developers to stay on top of any incoming changes that could affect features.
• Communicates comfortably with internal stakeholders and immediate team.
• Able to business partner with internal stakeholders and build relationships accordingly.
• Develops long term and robust relationships both internally and externally.
• Openly shares views in a truthful and constructive way.
• Actively listens to other people and uses their experience to understand, learn and grow.
• Takes ownership for seeing things through.
• Understands how their contributions affect the team, department and company.
• Builds and maintains good relationships with their team department and across the company.

What we’re looking for in our ideal candidate:

• All of our colleagues have to pass an NPPV3 clearance; you can find out more about it here but a key feature is having the last 3 years living in the United Kingdom.
• Be eligible for work in the UK; we are unable to offer sponsorship.
• Previous experience as a QA Engineer, both with manual and automation experience.
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes.
• Experience and a strong understanding of the testing position within SCRUM/Agile continuous delivery environments.
• Experience with API testing.
• Previous experience with iOS automation testing.
• A methodical and analytical mindset.
• Excellent organisation skills and attention to detail.
• Articulate with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Builds and maintains good relationships with their team department and across the company.
• Ability to work without supervision and under pressure.

It’s a bonus if:

• Tools such as Postman, K6, and Selenium Web Driver.
• Scripting experience.
• Experience working with K6 library.
• Experience with mobile/web testing.
• Experience with Agile tools including Confluence/Jira ISTQB-BCS.
• Foundation Certificate or above in a relevant field.
• Experience testing multi-platform software and servers: Android, iOS, PC with consideration of the convention of each platform.

What we offer: We’re always looking for new ways to celebrate our people. You’ll be no different.

• Salary; Up to £45,000 depending on experience.
• The chance to work with a passionate team that’s working together everyday towards our shared big ambitious goal.
• A dynamic, flexible and fun scale-up work environment with a highly talented team.
• 26 days holiday per year, plus public holidays.
• Private medical cover with Bupa for all our colleagues, as well as a Wellbeing Allowance each year.
• Pension scheme, offering up to 6% matching contribution.
• Up to 20 Nomad Working Days per annum.
• Personal Development budget.
• Electric Car Scheme.

Flexible & Hybrid Working: We said you'll get freedom to work in a way that is best for you, and that extends to being in the office – or not.

Work better from home? No worries. Prefer the office? Come on down. We have 2 mandatory Townhall days; Spring and Autumn, where the whole business gets together. When you visit the office you won’t just find rows and rows of desks. No, you’ll find our colleagues meeting on the walking pads, having planning sessions over a game of tennis table or grabbing a bean bag in our ‘Quality’ collaborative space - that’s right we live our values so much, we named our meeting spaces after them.

You can also shape work around your life at Airbox Systems; most colleagues work our core hours of 9am-5pm with others flexibly between 7am-7pm. Whether you're fitting in a spin class or the school run, you'll have the flexibility for whatever matters most. All we ask in return is that you produce great work, but when you’re working with passionate people, that part comes naturally.

Connect with us: Interested in the role, or Airbox in general, but you don’t meet 100% of the requirements? We’d love to hear from you! We encourage you to connect with us here; we’d be excited to see if your unique skill set and experience could be a match for future roles.

A note for Recruitment Agencies:

Agencies, we appreciate you… but unsolicited CV’s will not be reviewed. We will only accept CV submissions for roles briefed to you by us. Please don’t keep pulling the attention of our Support team from our customers.

If you would be interested in working with us – please send a message to [e-mail], should we have anything we need additional support on we will reach out to you.