We are looking for a junior QA to join the Pimberly QA Team for a complex, enterprise-grade SaaS platform and the PIM, DAM and other components it supports. This is a great opportunity to gain experience working on a large-scale SaaS product running on a modern dockerised microservices architecture.
Pimberly helps businesses to manage their product information more efficiently by allowing retailers, distributors, suppliers, and manufacturers to harness and enrich increasing volumes of product data, across multiple channels and regions – enabling them to get products to market faster and improve sales.
As part of the Tech Nation Upscale 5.0 program, we’ve been recognized as one of the UK’s fastest-growing tech scaleups. Following investment from NorthEdge Capital and the UK Government we’ve seen 100% year-on-year growth since 2016, and having recently opened an office in Times Square, New York, we are continuing our international expansion into northern Europe.
Main Responsibilities
· Work closely with Developers, Support, and the rest of the QA team to understand project requirements and develop appropriate tests
· Manage personal testing activities to achieve sprint goals
· Develop an excellent understanding of Pimberly and be able to answer queries as needed, becoming a knowledge lead for particular system areas
· Assist in triaging queries and issues raised efficiently and translate these into feature request and bug tickets as appropriate
· Review and contribute to test plans
· Set up the test environment with appropriate technical support, including preparing and acquiring test data
· Analyse and review new user requirements for testability
· Identify and use the appropriate testing techniques and tools for the test scenario
· Create, build and perform manual and automated test cases for new functionality, bug fixes, end to end testing and regression tests
· Ensure software operates as designed and is compliant with functional and non-functional requirements
· Create test reports for own testing activities
Key Skills/Experience
· Knowledge and experience of the SDLC, STLC and Agile process and different testing methodologies
· Experience of creating and performing manual tests in a commercial web-based environment (automating tests through Playwright, Cypress or similar welcomed but not essential)
· Knowledge and experience of defect management and tracking
· Excellent organisational, time-management and problem-solving skills
· Strong written and verbal communication skills
· ISEB or ISTQ qualifications preferable
The Ideal Candidate
· Has a passion for all things quality and test-related
· Is a self-starter and problem solver
· Has an enthusiasm for new technology
Benefits
· Competitive compensation package: salary, pension, health cover, life insurance, enhanced maternity and paternity pay plus more
· Generous holiday allowances plus long-term service holidays and birthdays off
· Work from home flexibility but agreed office attendance expected
· Fun office environment in central Manchester
· Frequent Company events and after-hour socials
· We’re an energetic and inclusive organisation
· We believe in promoting a healthy work-life balance and support remote working
Pay: £24,420.00-£30,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Work from home
Work Location: In person
