Do you love mondays? If not you should be a QA Lead.
We're looking for talented, enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join us on our mission to help the world love Mondays.
Successful candidates will have a passion for helping us find those bugs before they get to our users.
What you'll do
You will lead a team of QA analysts, ensuring that we test our products efficiently and effectively. Responsible for recruiting people into the team, helping them grow their careers you'll ensure the QA team love working.
Reporting to the Head of Development, you'll be setting release processes, communicating releases and defining our testing culture. You will work to transform our development teams embrace continual delivery, championing test automation and self testing code.
With experience either as a QA lead or as a Senior QA Analyst, you will be an expert at asking the right questions. Assessing risk and testing appropriately, you'll also be an advocate for well defined user stories and early collaboration.
You'll work with several cross-disciplinary teams, observing the agile methodologies and working closely with the QA team, developers, DBD's, Front-end (HTML/CSS) experts, UI, UX, Scrum Masters, Product Owners and, just occasionally, with Marketing.
What you'll need
- Excellent communication skills, the ability to build and maintain rapport
- Experience testing high volume business critical web applications.
- Demonstrate experience working with agile methodologies
- Experience of working with exploratory testing
- Experience creating acceptance tests
- Ability to delegate testing and motivate other roles to test
- Experience of using one or more automation frameworks
- Experience with Continuous Integration tools
Other desirable skills
- Leadership / Line Management
- Exposure to Selenium Webdriver
- Familiarity of BDD, (BDDfy, SpecFlow)
- API testing
- Use of Jira
- Exposure to source control (git)
What you'll get
We're big believers in encouraging creativity. In fact, one Friday every fortnight is dedicated to working on something other than your day job, whether it's working on projects you're passionate about, or just taking time to concentrate on your own personal development.
Similarly, we run 'Hackdays' throughout the year, giving our development teams a chance to build something new from scratch. So whether it's an idea for an innovative new app, or a ground-breaking new site you want to build, you'll have every opportunity to reach your potential.
We've also been known to send people away on holidays (Australia, Paris, A Place With A Sunny Beach We Can't Remember The Name Of), activity days, team building events, posh local breakfasts, and scaling the O2, to name a few.
Oh, and there's also free fruit and Nespresso coffee on tap. If you like that kind of thing...*
This role isn't right for you if...
- You don't want to move your career forward
- You just want a detailed spec handed to you so you can sit in the corner by yourself
- You don't like solving complex problems
- You love writing and running long test scripts