QA Engineer

Arbor Education; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the education sector is seeking a QA Engineer to enhance software quality. This remote role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, defining test plans, and performing manual testing. The ideal candidate will have strong SQL skills and experience with API testing. The company promotes a supportive work environment with numerous benefits including 32 days of holiday and wellness initiatives.

Benefits

Wellbeing team initiatives

32 days holiday

Life Assurance

Comprehensive wellness benefit

Private Dental Insurance

Salary sacrifice Pension

Enhanced maternity and adoption leave

Professional development training budget

Volunteer day

Qualifications

• Proficiency in test case creation and management.
• Experience working within agile cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work across multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the development team to define testable acceptance criteria.
• Perform manual and exploratory testing across feature releases.
• Create and maintain test documentation, reports, and metrics.

Skills

Collaboration

Communication

Test case creation

SQL

API testing

Tools

Postman

BDD

Gherkin

PHP

JavaScript

Python

Job description

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About Us

At Arbor, we're on a mission to transform the way schools work for the better.

Location: Remote, UK

Salary: £52,500 per year

About Us

At Arbor, we're on a mission to transform the way schools work for the better.

We believe in a future of work in schools where being challenged doesn't mean being burnt out and overworked. Where data guides progress without overwhelming staff. And where everyone working in a school is reminded why they got into education every day.

Our MIS and school management tools are already making a difference in over 7,000 schools and trusts. Giving time and power back to staff, turning data into clear, actionable insights, and supporting happier working days.

At the heart of our brand is a recognition that the challenges schools face today aren't just about efficiency, outputs and productivity - but about creating happier working lives for the people who drive education everyday: the staff. We want to make schools more joyful places to work, as well as learn.

About The Role

The QA Engineer position is pivotal to Arbor's commitment to deliver superb quality software to our customers, and our drive to make engineering teams more efficient. The QA Engineer will assist the Head of QA to deliver Arbor's QA Strategy by supporting the implementation of best practice and process.

The role will work directly with our product delivery teams to define test plans for major releases, and perform manual and exploratory testing to ensure bugs and issues are found during development and prior to release. Delivery teams are domain-aligned cross-functional teams made up of developers, testers, product managers, and software engineering managers. The QA Engineer will collaborate with the Product Managers and engineering team to form good testable acceptance criteria for each story, and ensure these are delivered as intended.

Core Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the development team to define testable acceptance criteria for each story
• Perform manual and exploratory testing across feature releases and record outcomes within the test management system
• Maintain the manual regression test suite
• Identify and record defects fully to enable accurate triage
• Create and maintain test documentation, reports, and metrics
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in the testing process
  
  
  

Requirements

• Proficiency in test case creation and management
• Proven experience creating queries in SQL to interrogate databases
• API testing experience utilising tools such as Postman.
• Good/Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, tools, and best practices
• Experience working within agile cross-functional teams
• Ability to work across multiple projects and be adaptable to a fast-paced environment
• Good/Strong collaboration and communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders
  
  
  

Bonus Skills

• Experience in EdTech
• Performance testing experience or knowledge
• Familiarity using BDD and/or Gherkin syntax
• Proficiency in programming languages such as PHP, Javascript, or Python.
• Experience with Playwright
• Professional certifications such as ISTQB.
  
  
  

Benefits

The chance to work alongside a team of hard-working, passionate people in a role where you'll see the impact of your work everyday. We also offer:

• A dedicated wellbeing team who champion initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and much more!
• 32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company wide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas
• Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary
• Comprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health, which provides a 24/7 virtual GP service, Mental health support, Counselling, and personalised Health Checks
• Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
• Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows
• Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay
• 5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions, helping you adapt to this new exciting time of life!
• Access to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching)
• All of our roles champion flexible working and we are happy to discuss what this means to you
• Social committees that plan team, office and company wide events to bring people together and celebrate success
• Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc)
• Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year
  
  

Interview Process

• Phone screen
• 1st Stage
• Task
• 2nd Stage
  
  

We are committed to a fair and comfortable recruitment process, so if you require any reasonable adjustments during your application or interview process, please reach out to a member of the team at [e-mail].

Our commitment is also backed by our partnership with Neurodiversity Consultancy, Lexxic who provide us with training, support and advice.

Arbor Education is an equal opportunities organisation

Our goal is for Arbor to be a workplace which represents, celebrates and supports people from all backgrounds, and which gives them the tools they need to thrive - whatever their ambitions may be so we support and promote diversity and equality, and actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

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Please note: We are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.

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