Job Description
Software Quality Assurance Engineer (12 month maternity cover)
We have an excellent opportunity for a Software Quality Assurance Engineer to join our Change and Technology department on a 12-month maternity cover, full time basis, 35 hours per week.
The team are working across a range of new applications for Golden Charter and its UK network of independent funeral directors. This is a relatively new space for digital technology and, as a result, we are in a domain which encourages new, innovative solutions. As a member of the team you’ll be expected to help research and shape these opportunities, deliver products which help the entire industry move forward.
Why work for us?
We genuinely care about our people and their career development goals which is why we have a structured personal development review process which enables us to support individual career aspirations. We are proud to say that over 30% of our vacancies in the last 12 months have been filled by internal candidates looking for the next step in their career.
At Golden Charter, employee wellbeing is high on our people agenda and we understand the importance of work life balance which is why all of our full time roles are 35 hours per week. Our hybrid model of working means you can work both at home and in the office; what you are working on will drive how often you are in the office. We offer a range of flexible working patterns, including a 9-day fortnight whereby you have every second Monday or Friday off in addition to your normal weekend.
Along with flexible working, we also offer a great benefits package, which includes:
- 6% employer pension contribution
- Flexible benefits allowance to add to your salary or buy additional benefits (starts in April)
- Annual bonus scheme
- Life Assurance (4 x annual salary)
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Holiday buy/sell scheme
- Health Cash Plan
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Gym membership discounts
- Annual flu vaccine
- Onsite masseuse
- Onsite yoga classes
- Access to mental health first aid
- Access to a retail discount website
- Social events
- Great learning and development opportunities
Responsibilities:
- Work with team to ensure quality of new and existing applications in a CI/CD environment.
- Coach the team in their approach to testing, across the full development lifecycle.
- Lead the team in building out our automated test capability.
- Automated Test tools and techniques.
- Participation in iterative and incremental software development in BDD and Agile environments.
- Experience of testing web-based applications: front-end, back-end and E2E — from manual, exploratory techniques, through to automated, regression coverage.
Essential criteria:
- Experience in cloud-based containerised applications.
- Agile/Lean development principles
Desirable criteria:
- Experience of testing web-based applications: Front-end, Back-end / E2E
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months
Salary: £43,000.00-£46,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- Gym membership
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Private dental insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Store discount
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Supplemental pay types:
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Glasgow: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Glasgow
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