Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Introduction

Are you a passionate Quality Assurance Engineer who has expertise with UAT? Are you looking for a new position in a successful and passionate team? Our people are everything to us. The way they deliver exceptional experiences every day for our customers. The way they own what they do. Their 'Why's it like that?' curiosity. How they always think of others and work together to get things done. Come and do the best work of your life alongside lovely colleagues. Come to [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]! We are looking for an experienced manual Quality Assurance Engineer who has experience in front-end testing. An experienced quality assurance engineer who can contribute to a technology and change business area delivering testing and assurance capabilities. Someone who has a pro-active and curious mind and can ask questions like, 'Does this work for the end-user?'. *Please note this is a fixed-term contract for 12 months covering maternity.*

Role Responsibility

• Taking ownership of testing within the SDLC with the accountability for the testing and quality assurance applications across the travel ecosystem
• Be capable and available to cover releases which may include unsociable hours (average x2 per month). This does come with a generous on-call bonus
• Facilitating the resource of two testers based in India
• Manage and triage application bugs and support issues for internal and third-party systems
• Fix and feedback to business owners with relevant amendments
• Implementation and improvement of quality assurance standards across a diverse range of enterprise platforms and services including those with regulatory requirements
• Working collaboratively with Project Management and Technology professionals to ensure business requirements and deadlines are met
• Suggest and implement innovative solutions to reduce manual testing requirements and driving efficiencies in the testing and software development lifecycle
• Actively support QA requirements through root cause and incident management processes across the Travel Group
• Supporting the delivery of technology programmes, projects and workstreams to agreed time, cost, and quality criteria
• Management of bugs and their prioritisation
• Management of relevant resolver groups from Service Now for supported applications
• Preparation for prioritisation of new developments/ change requests

The Ideal Candidate

• Proven experience as a Quality Assurance Engineer (can accept more junior levels of experience)
• Experience with User Acceptance Testing and front-end testing
• Highly proactive with the ability to analyse effectively and provide solutions
• Track record of successful test management frameworks and practices
• Strong communicator who actively identifies and manages all stakeholders and collaborates appropriately with them dependent on their needs

Package Description

• Fully remote role
• £30,000 per annum
• On-call release bonuses (averages x2 per month)
• 12 month fixed term role (covering maternity)
• 35 hours per week (9am-5pm, Monday through Friday)
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Option to purchase additional 5 days
• Pension scheme matched up to 10%
• Life assurance
• Wellbeing programme
• Colleague discounts including family discounts on cruises and holidays!
• Range of reductions and offers from leading retailers, travel groups and entertainment companies
• Enhanced maternity and paternity and grandparent leave
• Company performance related annual bonus
• Income protection

About the Company

Over the past 70 years we have become the UK's specialist provider of products and services to people aged over 50 in the UK. The [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] brand has become one of the most recognised and trusted brands amongst UK consumers in this demographic, recognised for its high quality products and exceptional standards of service. These include cruises and holidays, insurance, personal finance and the [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Magazine. At [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] we are committed to treating all employees fairly and to offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement. We value diversity not just because it is the right thing to do, but because diverse teams perform better. Fair consideration is given to applications from all applicants, including those with disabilities and those over who are over 50 as we are champions of age inclusivity. We are an official Disability Confident employer and ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will make reasonable adjustments as required. For more information on our DEI policies please visit our [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Careers page. ***[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged on the role by the Talent Acquisition Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters, employees or any other company location. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] will not be responsible for any fees related to CVs received in this unsolicited manner.***