Quality Assurance / Test Engineer

UK-Wide
Posted 2 weeks ago
£30,000-£70,000

Job Description

What we’re looking for

Mercator is seeking a dynamic, forward-thinking Quality Assurance/Test Engineer with excellent communication skills who can help Mercator in its continued transformation.

You will be open-minded, happy to work on your own or as part of a team and want to learn new technologies and promote best practice.

As an Agile Quality Assurance/Test Engineer you will work as part of a multidisciplinary agile scrum team to comprehensively test the digital products and services being developed. You will work in partnership with Front-end Developers to develop both manual & automated test suites. You will implement a testing approach within regular sprint cycles that will provide an effective level of assurance before regular service releases.

Minimum 2 years experience please. Salary from £30,000-£70,000 depending on experience.

About us

Mercator Digital is an award-winning digital consultancy, ranked at number four among the Best Medium Sized Workplaces in the UK and recognised as one of Europe’s top 100 Best Workplaces. We’re also celebrated for our commitment to employee wellbeing, professional development, diversity and excellence in tech.

Leveraging nearly 20 years’ experience, Mercator Digital designs, builds, and delivers innovative digital services for clients across the public and private sectors worldwide. With a global presence spanning the UK, US, France, and Singapore, the Mercator team comprises over 400 specialists.

We provide an environment where talented professionals can grow, collaborate, and deliver innovative solutions that make digital services more innovative, effective, and accessible for all.

Team Mercator

This is an exciting time to join Mercator Digital. We’re growing fast – opening new offices, expanding our teams, and creating new opportunities for development. We’re proud of our culture – one that’s lively, inclusive, and forward-thinking. As we grow, preserving our culture remains a priority. That’s why we have an annual survey for feedback, an open-door policy for communication, plenty of social events to foster connections, and a benefits package to show our appreciation.

Our brand values are at the core of who we are, and each Mercator team member lives these values as brand ambassadors:

·      We don’t stand still

We’re always evolving, making bold choices, and seeking improvement.

·      We keep it real

We’re straightforward, open, and honest in everything we do.

·      We take care

We support each other, our work, our clients, and partners.

·      It’s a joint effort

We work together, trust each other, and build strength in unity.

·      We own our actions

We empower accountability for our words, actions, and results.

·      We bring out the best

We share knowledge and enthusiasm, helping everyone reach their fullest potential.

Job type

Full time, permanent. We encourage those who may need a more agile approach to the structure of their working day to apply; we are always willing to discuss flexible options where we can.

Location

You’ll be expected to travel to our customer’s site and potentially sites UK wide; working from client/office/home locations as appropriate.

As a Quality Assurance/Test Engineer you will:

  • Collaborate with Service/Product Managers & Business Analysts to ensure that user needs for new digital services are fully understood and that user stories contain effective, actionable acceptance criteria
  • Identify test cases that are suitable for automation and work with the Agile Test Coordinator, developers and architects to define the approach to automated testing
  • Write automated acceptance tests that can be integrated into the software build process
  • Organise and perform manual tests when automated approaches are not possible
  • Develop test strategies that ensure our digital services function correctly on multiple devices, including desktop, mobile, tablet, games consoles and other commonly used ways of accessing digital services
  • Test digital products for compliance with accessibility standards including WCAG 2.0
  • Participate in the wider testing community (outside of Mercator), building relationships with other testing engineers and identifying best practices that we can adopt

Essential knowledge/experience 

You will need: 

  • Experience of agile software development and testing methods
  • Experience of automation testing
  • Demonstrable understanding of test driven development approaches
  • Scala code to automate tests using Selenium WebDriver, and rapidly learn other tools & languages as required
  • Proven ability to independently research & communicate new testing technologies or approaches
  • Detail-oriented: able to document and follow detailed instructions within test scripts and defect tracking documents
  • Experience of testing software across multiple web browsers and devices

Desired knowledge/experience 

  • Experience of automated testing tools (e.g. Jenkins, jUnit, Cucumber, rspec, Selenium)
  • Experience of web testing tools (eg Selenium WebDriver)
  • Experience working as a test automation engineer, software developer, or other appropriate IT background, in an agile project
  • Experience of API programming languages such as JSon

In return you’ll receive

  • Above market rate (dependent on experience)
  • 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays and your birthday off)
  • Company pension
  • Group life cover
  • Training budget
  • Enhanced maternity/paternity package
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • 2 days paid volunteering days
  • We also offer an electric vehicle scheme and cycle to work scheme

*Applicants must have the right to work in the UK and the ability to pass BPSS vetting

To apply for this job please visit www.mercatordigital.com.

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