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QA Engineer
- Posted 31 January 2025
- LocationTimişoara
- Job type Permanent
- Discipline Product & Engineering
- ReferenceJ13953
Job description
QA Engineer
We’re looking for people to join the Access family, who share our passion for believing in better, and who will help us continue to grow.
Love Work. Love Life. Be You. - is central to our success and how we give our customers the freedom to do more of what's important to them.
What does Access offer you?
We offer a flexible, hybrid working environment where you can balance work and life while maintaining a strong office team-based culture. We deliver on what we say, taking the development of our people seriously. We’ll work with you to progress your success plan and provide opportunities to accelerate your career.
On top of a competitive salary, our standard 25 days holiday (which goes up the longer you’re with us), and a matched pension scheme, you’ll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We’re an organisation that likes to give back, so you’ll also have one charity day allocated to support a cause that matters to you.
About you:
• You are collaborative, pragmatic, positive, competitive, assertive, commercially aware and driven to continuous learning/improvement. You demonstrate excellent communication skills and can communicate with, and advise stakeholders in various departments at various levels, making recommendations based on risk, commercial factors, Quality approach and strategic objectives.
• You have a “shift left” mentality and understand the importance of anticipating and identifying issues as early as possible in the SDLC. You show a great understanding of best practice, including why QA is necessary, objectives, cost of defects, principles of testing, software development models, testing levels & types. You actively promote and show ownership of Quality centred activities. You can report risks and observations and identify areas where further testing may be required.
• You are confident in your ability to challenge and influence where required to ensure our software’s quality is consistent.
• You are a technical person with knowledge of automation frameworks, performance, load, and security testing. You genuinely care about quality; you collaboratively work with your team-mates to embed quality wherever possible.
Day-to-day, you will:
• Advise, and collaborate with team stakeholders on the QA approach the wider team should take, to deliver quality deliverables.
• Follow the agreed QA process and approach for both manual and automated testing, to align with the test & business strategy. Design, execute and record testing to a high standard, taking an approach suitable to an agile, fast-paced environment, according to the product teams’ definitions of done.
• Actively contribute to backlog refinement, and take responsibility for understanding scope, risk, and complexity of changes from inception through to delivery.
• Follow a risk-based approach, make risk-based recommendations, and identify, assess, and escalate quality risks. Contribute to developing test processes and improvements.
• Report to the Squad Lead on progress and areas of risk. Work in accordance with the company’s policies and procedures.
Your skills and experiences might also include:
• Experience of working in a fast-paced, Agile environment.Experience of working with SaaS or Web-based products,
• Experience of defining and crafting test plans and writing solid, re-usable test cases to ensure functionality is appropriately documented and to support regression efforts,
• Good understanding of Risk and how to identify and assess it, including Risk-based Testing,
• Solid testing experience and good understanding of test approaches and techniques. Experience of assisting in the development of test processes and improvements
• Experience of writing automation tests for UI and/or API.
Technology & Tools:
• API tools e.g., Swagger, Postman. Continuous testing within a pipeline. Jenkins/Azure DevOps. Good SQL Server skills,
• Test repository such as qTest/Azure DevOps Test Plans. ISTQB/ISEB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing,
• Experience using Playwright & Typescript. Experience of mobile testing using tools such as BrowserStack/Appium. Experience testing HL7 messages,
What are we all about?
The Access Group is one of the largest UK-headquartered providers of business management software to small and mid-sized organisations in the UK, Ireland, USA and Asia Pacific. It helps more than 100,000 customers across commercial and non-profit sectors become more productive and efficient. Our products and solutions go beyond providing technology, we connect the right people with the right data, at the right time, through Access Workspace.
At Access, we are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. If you're excited about this role, (even if your previous experience doesn't align perfectly), you might just be the perfect fit for us! We wholeheartedly believe in equality for all and the transformative power of diversity.
Why not join our vibrant team where you can love what you do, love how you live, and most importantly, be authentically you? Let's make a difference together.
Love Work. Love Life. Be You.