Software Test Engineer

Cambridge Intelligence; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Test Engineer to join their dynamic team in Cambridge. In this role, you will collaborate closely with developers to ensure the highest quality standards for product features. Your analytical skills and experience in manual testing will be crucial as you design test strategies and identify risks in software releases. This position offers a hybrid working model, allowing you to balance office and remote work effectively. With a strong commitment to professional development and a focus on diversity and inclusion, this company provides an exciting opportunity for growth and innovation in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Pension - up to 6% employer contribution

Medical and Dental Insurance (BUPA)

Up to 12% discretionary bonus

25 days annual leave

5 days of professional development paid for by the company

Death in Service benefit

Flexible holiday benefits

Cycle scheme (fully funded by the company)

EV scheme (conditions apply)

Qualifications

• Considerable manual testing experience using agile processes required.
• Experience with exploratory testing and defining acceptance tests is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the development team to maintain product quality.
• Design test strategies for new features and identify risks in releases.

Skills

Manual Testing

Analytical Thinking

Exploratory Testing

Acceptance Testing

Security Testing

CI/CD Pipelines

JavaScript

TypeScript

Job description

Are you naturally curious, with a talent for breaking things to ensure they really work?

As a Test Engineer, you’ll join one of our product teams but rotate between the various products, ensuring features are of the highest quality from their inception.

What’s involved?

This is a collaborative role, focused on maintaining and improving the high standard of our product offerings. You’ll work with the entire development team to make improvements and build quality into the product.

You’ll work with software developers to identify risks in each release or feature and adapt test plans accordingly. You’ll also design test strategies for new features where the interface is not obvious.

This is a full-time permanent position with hybrid working – three days a week in the office during probation and one day a week thereafter.

Who’s the ideal candidate?

To succeed in this role, you’ll need considerable manual testing experience using agile processes. You’ll also need to be an analytical and creative thinker, with some experience of exploratory testing and defining acceptance tests.

Someone who's comfortable testing complex interconnected systems and good at looking for security issues.

Ideally, you’d also have some knowledge of platform-specific procedures such as running and viewing CI/CD pipelines, deploying code from branch clusters, and creating dummy paths and pipelines.

Some understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript is also highly desirable.

You may also have:

1. Experience of testing web applications and/or SDKs
2. Data visualization or analysis/software development
3. Performance testing

Who you’ll work with

We have four development teams and one platform team. Each is made up of JavaScript/TypeScript developers, working alongside technical writers, test engineers, and a development manager.

Opportunities to grow

Everyone here gets funded professional development time, with up to five days allocated to learning new skills – whether that’s at conferences, training programs, or courses.

Be yourself

We want to build a fair, respectful and welcoming company, where everyone feels at home. That means taking a long-term approach to equality, diversity, and inclusion – not treating it as a tickbox exercise.

With the help of our EDI group, we’re working to make every aspect of the business – including recruitment – fair, respectful, and inclusive.

Benefits

Hybrid working with 2-3 days in our Cambridge city centre office.

• Pension - up to 6% employer contribution
• Medical and Dental Insurance (BUPA)
• Up to 12% discretionary bonus
• 25 days annual leave
• 5 days of professional development paid for by the company
• Death in Service benefit
• Flexible holiday benefits
• Cycle scheme (fully funded by the company)
• EV scheme (conditions apply)