Mid-Level QA Engineer
- Location: Portsmouth / London
- Salary: £50,000
- Date Posted: 8th August 2024
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About System1
System1 is a The Creative Effectiveness Platform. Our target customers are the world’s largest advertisers. We predict and improve marketing effectiveness. Our advertising and idea tests measure emotion to give our customers the most accurate predictions of the business impact of creativity.
To learn more about us, please visit System1 Group | Create with Confidence
About The Role
This role plays a key part of our QA team in ensuring that we deliver the smartest technology to our clients and working closely with our developers and product folks and play a role in devising and suggesting our Automation strategy.
This is a perfect opportunity for you if you want to make an impact on our global strategy and growth!
Do you want to join us to excite and change the industry?
What will you be doing?
- Write reusable scripts/tools that help the team to reduce repetitive efforts.
- Maintain and extend our automation framework
- Write automation tests
- Perform different types of tests – functional, non-functional, security, performance etc.
- Work closely with both developers as well as product folks to understand the product from both developers as well as product standpoints and then devise/suggest an automation strategy.
- Raise/Investigate defects
You need to be this kind of person:
- Confident and motivated
- Adaptive learner
- A great communicator
- Multitasker
- An understanding that nothing is perfect, yet we should never stop striving for perfection
- A good understanding of Agile methods
- Experience of Quality Assurance on complex software solutions in a demanding environment with many users
- Passionate about delivering quality software
- Experience of problem solving
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Display honesty and integrity
You need to have the following experience:
The key technical skills required to be successful in this role are C# at a basic level coupled with good experience in writing and running automated tests. SQL proficiency is required as well as HTML / CSS knowledge to confidently browse page model and locate elements using locators of various kinds (Xpath, CSS etc.)
We work in an agile environment so if you are familiar with agile, that would be a huge benefit.
Benefits
We offer a competitive salary and bonus scheme, including health insurance, and pension. Our people are important to us, and we understand that each person has a life outside of work and we therefore offer flexible working arrangements (Hybrid) aiming to suit your needs. We also offer several wellbeing resources such as “de-clutter” afternoons for your personal and professional needs.
We encourage learning and offer education reimbursement opportunities.
We have recognition schemes, and regular socials, including summer and winter parties!
We welcome applicants from all diverse communities and encourage our candidates to ask us about reasonable adjustments that we may be able to make to support through our recruitment process and while in post.