Join the Access Family and see how we make software ideas become a reality! Our core value of ‘Love work, Love life’ has been central to our success and so we’re looking for people to join us who share our passion for making things better every day, to help us achieve 2 million users of the Access Workspace platform. Are you ready for the challenge? What are we all about? At Access we love software and how technology never stays the same. It’s this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers. We pride ourselves on helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business. That’s why over 1 million users and over 40,000 organisations rely on Access software to help their organisation thrive. About The Opportunity: We have an exciting opportunity for a driven QA to join our healthcare team, to ensure we are delivering quality software that truly makes a difference to hospitals, in the UK and beyond. You have the chance to form part of a team working on a new software that not only streamlines healthcare processes, but also supports better patient care, and ultimately saves lives! 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 skilled technical person with advanced 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. · Contribute to the creation and execution of automation tests where required. · Mentor and develop the team around you to elevate their capability. As a well-rounded Quality Engineer, your Skills and Experiences will include: · Experience: · Experience of working in a fast-paced, Agile environment, · Experience of working with SaaS or Web-based products, · Excellent communication skills, · 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, Mobile and/or API. · Technology & Tools: · REST API test automation · UI (User Interface) test automation · Mobile automation using Appium/Browserstack · UI/API automation using Playwright & Typescript, · Continuous Testing within a pipeline/container · Jenkins/Azure DevOps, Docker · Git-based Source Control · Cucumber libraries · SQL Server · API tools e.g., Swagger, Postman · Test repository such as qTest/Azure DevOps Test Plans. · It would be great if you also had: · ISTQB/ISEB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing, · Experience testing HL7 messages, · Non-functional testing (performance/load/volume preferably). What does Access offer you? We are a growing software company, and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously! We will work with you to make you successful and carve out your career plan; joining Access is a fantastic opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference. In addition to our standard benefits of 25 days holiday, a match contributory pension and healthcare you will get:   · A Competitive Salary · Giving Back/Charity days · Training in the UK and Romania to accelerate your career · Quarterly Socials · 6 weeks Sabbaticals (after 6 years of service) · The Access Group Big Break: our all-expenses paid holiday to Spain