Test Engineer
Must be eligible for SC clearance
Salary: competitive depending upon experience + benefits
Where the job is based: hybrid, home based and working with Kerv Digital office/customer site visits as required) UK HQ, Seven House, 18 High Street, Longbridge, B3Q 1 2U
Who we are:
Dive into a world where technology meets innovation. At Kerv Digital, we're not just another tech company. We're the problem solvers, the magicians who transform complex challenges into seamless digital experiences. Utilising a powerful blend of Power Platform, DevOps, Data experiences, and Software Engineering, we create business solutions that truly resonate with our clients driving extreme value!
With our roots planted in Birmingham and branches spreading across the globe from London to Bangalore, we're a proud member of the Kerv Group - a dynamic £112m revenue technology consultancy leader with a dedicated team of over 700 professionals, partnering with 800+ sector leaders.
People come first always we are incredibly proud of our unparalleled work culture. Not just words on paper, we wear our "Great Place to Work" certifications from the UK and India like badges of honour. Dive into an ocean of opportunities in an atmosphere that celebrates collaboration. Sharpen your prowess with a global multi-discipline team and be guided by the industry's most forward-thinking architects.
Job Description:
We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Test Engineer / Analyst, with current SC Clearance or eligibility for SC, to join us.
The candidate will be responsible for planning, documenting and executing manual tests, capturing test evidence, assisting with user story refinement and elaboration and test estimations, regression test execution and a variety of other related tasks.
This role requires a strong understanding and experience of testing at all levels and types including the ability to create and maintain regression test suites for a project, aligning with best practice and standards.
While we predominantly deliver solutions around Microsoft Dynamics products and Power Platform, we also deliver solutions outside of this. This specific role, will require testing of reusable React components as part of the first project assignment, so experience and familiarity with testing these technologies will be required.
Your scope will primarily be around manual functional testing and carrying out accessibility testing manually and through usage of tooling to ensure solutions meet the required WCAG & GDS standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, maintain and execute manual test cases for functionality and regression testing covering positive and negative test perspectives
- Plan and carry out accessibility testing to WCAG 2.2 AA & GDS standards
- Conduct API testing to ensure seamless integration and functionality where needed
- Testing of data driven scenarios, relating to migrated data
- Collaborate with all team members, managers and client stakeholders
- Report and track defects, and work with the development team to resolve issues
- Participate in test planning, estimation, and risk analysis activities
- Monitor and track test metrics and contribute to weekly reporting
- Ensure strict adherence between solutions developed and customer requirements
- Analysis of functional and non-functional use cases, and identification of regression test candidates
- Creation, maintenance and execution of regression test pack
Required Experience:
- Must be eligible for SC clearance PLUS British Citizen or British National
- Over 5 years of proven practical testing experience
- ISTQB Testing Certifications or equivalent
- Experienced in testing React components / technologies
- Experienced in testing Microsoft Dynamics products
- Experienced in testing Power Apps and solutions in Power Platform technology
- Azure DevOps and Azure Dev Ops Test Plans for requirement, test & bug management
- Experience of testing data migrations and in particular planning tests around migrated data
- Hands-on experience with API testing tools (e.g., Postman, SoapUI)
- Knowledge of and hands-on experience with accessibility testing carried out manually and with tooling particularly (Browser Add Ons and Screen Reader toolsets)
- Experience testing front end and back-end system components
- Ability to create meaningful test result reports
- Proactive, team contributor who is delivery focused and engages effectively with all types of team members to drive projects forwards
Skills:
Candidates are expected to have all of the following skills;
- Strong understanding of software testing principles, methodologies & techniques
- Experienced at carrying out testing activities in Scrum methodology and contributing in all
ceremonies (Planning, Stand Ups, Demo and Retros)
- Proficiency in writing and executing clear and accurate manual test cases and test scripts in a professional manner
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities remotely and in person
- Able to work as part of a team, but also work independently to achieve work targets and tight deadlines
- Analytical and proactive in their approach to testing and problem solving
- Ability to drive testing processes starting from planning phase to test execution, bug fixing and support
- Capable of engaging at all levels with customers
Desirable skills you could bring:
- Non-functional testing experience including performance and / or security testing
We're also looking for people that fit how we work, which is something like;
- happiest working under their own direction and initiative, but fully supported when needed
- confident to have a voice in a team and represent the testing function and activities
- attention to detail, we want you to obsess about the little things!
- ability to work effectively with remote teams with geographical and time zone differences
- ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales
What we can do for you:
We're a transparent, honest and fiercely equal employer that believes completely in providing the best possible work experience for our employees:
- Real Flexibility– we're a family first organisation, and if the work gets done, you can work when and wherever you want. A healthy approach for most of our teams seems to be splitting three ways between home, customer sites and the office.
- Awesome Environment– all of our employees will tell you that we foster an easy going environment, are experts at what we do and care deeply about what we work on, and the company was started specifically to find a way for people to take more enjoyment from their work.
- Interesting Work– these days most of our customers are household names and many of our projects have an important impact on the world around us. The kind of things we do regularly include working with not-for-profits to transform how they leverage technology, working with public bodies to shape digital services and working with top tier private entities to bring genuinely new and meaningful products and services to market.
- Great Benefits– all the usual suspects and then some. Some highlights include our choose-your-own tech approach to end-user devices, well stocked cupboards with tasty goodies (we're a food first company too), excellent professional development support including frequent in-house training for tech. you can't get trained on anywhere else and private healthcare. Full disclosure; some benefits can only be provided after probation.
- Recognition & Growth– Recognized as a 'Great Place to Work' in both the UK and India, our commitment to excellence goes beyond our products and services. Our culture is a testament to the dedicated technologists who work tirelessly to drive our vision forward. Being a part of Kerv Digital means embracing a culture of innovation, collaboration, and mutual respect. Our teams in the UK and India thrive in an atmosphere that promotes continuous learning and growth
Join us at Kerv Digital, where we don't just build ground breaking technology - we build future.
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You will live the Kerv values…
- Think Customer First
- Team is everything
- Spread good vibes
- Build future
- Do the right thing
At Kerv, we're building something special and we're building it to last. We want everybody to feel valued, included and love working together. With an uncompromising pursuit of amazing employee experience, we always strive to do the right thing. We believe and will relentlessly promote and support the power of diversity, equality and belonging, through collaboration and creating exceptional solutions together.
