Senior QA Engineer

Causeway Technologies; England; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to enhance software testing processes. The role involves ensuring the quality of software through automated and manual testing, mentoring team members, and collaborating across departments. With a commitment to quality and innovation, this role offers a dynamic environment that supports professional growth and team collaboration.

Benefits

25 days annual leave + public holidays

4% matched pension

Income protection and life assurance

Access to an award-winning benefits platform

Dedicated EAP available 24/7

Fitness club allowance

Private Medical Insurance

Paid study leave + volunteering days

Car Scheme

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience as a Software Tester or similar role.
• Experience with automated testing tools for web applications.
• Ability to document bug replication steps clearly.

Responsibilities

• Test technical solutions including complex components.
• Collaborate closely with team members and departments.
• Execute all levels of testing and document the results.

Skills

Automated testing

Manual testing

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Critical thinking

Education

Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

ISTQB Certification

Tools

Python

PlayWright

Postman

Soap UI

Azure

Git

Job description

Middlesbrough (Hybrid)

Do you want to help shape software that affects thousands of lives?

Who are we?

We are ranked as the UK’s #1 construction specific software player and our mission is simple; to provide market leading end-to-end software solutions to the construction and construction like industries across the entire build life cycle.

If you are looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. Our teams are based in the UK, Europe, and India, working on products that are used on a global scale. We have a clear and defined road map to deliver over the next 3 years, which is centred around a large-scale digital transformation as well as continuing our growth and expansion.

We embrace diversity and equality and want our employees to be comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. Creating a culture of Equality isn’t just the right thing to do, it improves every aspect of our business.

Purpose

Our technology is used by thousands of companies and affects millions of lives. You will be responsible for the quality of software development and deployment. You will be involved in performing and creating automated and/or manual tests to ensure the software created by Developers is fit for purpose.

The Senior QA Engineer will report to the Agile Delivery Lead or Technical Delivery Lead.

The key areas of responsibility for the Senior QA Engineer include:

• Technical Delivery
• Technical Innovation
• Analysis of software, and systems, mitigate risk and prevent software issues.
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Test technical solutions including complex components, whilst maintaining quality standards.
• Collaborate closely with other team members and departments.
• Execute all levels of testing (System, Integration, and Regression).
• Analyse user stories and/or use cases/requirements for validity and feasibility.
• Mentor team members in an open, respectful, flexible and empathetic manner.
• Help team members overcome obstacles concerning their work.
• Detect and track software defects and inconsistencies.
• Provide timely execution of tests.
• Apply quality engineering principles throughout the Agile product lifecycle.
• Provide support and documentation.
• Determine and agree on quality procedures, standards or specifications and ensure that they are always met.
• Estimate effort required to accomplish requirements and ensure that schedules are met.
• Ensure technical products are tested accurately, based on best practice standards, and on time to help support business objectives.
• Make suggestions to improve and support the testing lifecycle.
• Produce high-quality test plans, documentation and reports as required and complex test scripts.
• Document bug replication steps clearly, along with additional relevant information. Can set up complex replication steps.
• Communicate frequently with QA, Scrum Master, and Development Manager.
• Take responsibility for your personal development, ensuring that knowledge and skills are up to date and maintained, including emerging trends that may be relevant to solutions being developed.
• Continuously strive for innovative solutions and make suggestions for improvements that will provide a benefit to the business in terms of improved efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity.
• Be willing to listen to and support colleagues, devoting time to sharing knowledge, infusing confidence, and expressing positive expectations.
  
  

Key Skills, Experience & Qualifications

• Previous experience with automated testing tools for web applications, preferably Python with PlayWright. Taking the lead in maintaining the automation test suites
• Previous experience of working in a manual testing role in a software environment, developing and executing tests to validate system functionality against specifications.
• Document bug replication steps clearly, along with additional relevant information. Can set up complex replication steps.
• Able to produce high-quality test plans, documentation and reports as required and complex test scripts.
• Experience of automated testing frameworks & writing automated test scripts.
• Can accurately debug & refactor code within the automated framework.
• Awareness of current trends and developments in software testing.
• Experience Agile (Scrum) methodologies.
• Good knowledge of quality standards, legislation and best practice.
• Degree level or equivalent education preferred in a relevant subject such as computer science, software engineering etc.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Experience in data analysis.
• Write & execute restful API testing using tools such as Postman, Soap UI.
• Can implement & maintain soak, stress and system tests.
• Knows top 10 OWASP software vulnerabilities and how to exploit them.
• Ensures all code is reviewed before changes are checked into master.
• ISTQB certified.
• Can push, pull source code into the appropriate repo such as Git or Bitbucket.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Great communication skills.
• 5 years of experience as a Software Tester or similar role.
• Tenacious, energised and motivated with a high level of commitment and passion towards achieving quality excellence.
• Strong team player with the ability to work within an Agile / Scrum framework.
• Willingness to support other team members to support team goals.
• Solution-orientated with a positive, can-do attitude and an ability to work under pressure.
• Excellent oral, presentation and written communication skills.
• Confident and able to work alongside strong personalities within the business.
• Strong technical, analytical and problem solving-skills.
• Ability to provide support and guidance to other team members.
  
  

Desirable:

• Use tools such as Azure & SonorCloud to accurately report test coverage.
• Create automation test frameworks and build this into a CI/CD pipeline.
• Awareness of TDD (Test Driven Development).
  
  

Competencies

• Security - Approaches all Engineering work with a security lens. Actively looks for security vulnerabilities.
• Programming/Software Development - Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends, and refactors complex programs/scripts. Contributes to the selection of the software development approach for projects. Participates in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work.
• Design - Evolves and evaluates products to be better and simpler. Undertakes complete design of moderately complex software applications or components. Investigate data requirements, and apply data analysis, design, modelling, and quality assurance techniques, to establish, modify or maintain data structures. Develops and maintains specialist knowledge of database and data warehouse concepts, design principles, architectures, software, and facilities. Determines the approaches to be used to design and develop digital and offline tasks, interactions, and interfaces in line with the usability requirements. Specifies and designs complex hardware components/systems.
• Documentation - Designs, creates, controls and evaluates complex issues. Makes informed decisions about the best way to present information. Produces information artefacts that are accurate, current, relevant, and easily understood. Applies moderation and editing processes to content supplied by others.
• Incident, Change and Release Management - Prioritises and investigates causes of incidents and seeks resolution. Assesses, analyses, develops, documents, and implements changes based on change requests. Leads the assessment, analysis, planning and design of release packages. Ensures release processes and procedures are maintained.
• Database Administration / Management - Can manage complex queries, work with data and help in the design of new databases.
• Business Impact - Provides expert contribution. Has a broad commercial understanding to add value to projects. Generates follow-up work for self and other colleagues.
• Communication and Collaboration - Has regular contact associated with ongoing and possible future projects. Delivers feedback to their team's business stakeholders when opportunities arise.
• Leadership - Strives to be objective and reflects on their own biases when making decisions. Holds themselves accountable for decisions and outcomes. Supports junior members of the team.
  
  

What you get from us:

If you're looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. We believe everyone at Causeway has a vital role to play in our success. Causeway is fuelled by curiosity and is a place for people who beam with positivity and burn with ambition.

Our team is everything, so we’ll take good care of you. In fact, we give well-being the same priority as our other business goals. We’re strong advocates of work-life balance, offering hybrid working alongside the opportunity to work from modern, collaborative offices.

Our Values

We are United. As part of a team, we’re better together.

We are Agile. Be the change, we’re on a journey.

We are Trusted. Do the right thing, we own this.

We are Driven. Get stuck in, we make it happen.

Benefits

As a leader in employee engagement and people management, there are fantastic benefits and rewards at Causeway. We strive, year on year, to achieve recognition as an award-winning workplace that our employees love. We’ve selected just a few of the many benefits available below to show you how we take care of our Causeway stars.

• 25 days annual leave + public holidays, increasing with length of service.
• 4% matched pension.
• Income protection and life assurance.
• Access to our award-winning benefits platform.
• We take mental health seriously and have a dedicated EAP available 24/7.
• £100 allowance towards a fitness club.
• Dell discounts.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Paid study leave + volunteering days.
• Car Scheme.
  
  

Like all responsible companies Causeway is aware of the need to recognise the importance of protecting our environment and addressing the climate emergency. Causeway is a carbon neutral company and we offset our calculated carbon footprint. However, we recognise that offsetting is not a permanent solution, so we set environmental objectives to reduce our footprint year-on-year.