QA Engineer

Job Description
We are looking for a highly motivated QA Engineer to join our development team and help develop our SaaS billing platform Elevate. We are now at a pivotal point in the development of the product as we look to scale and develop the product whilst continuing to innovate and keep us light years ahead of our competition.
To succeed in this role, you will be a team player with a keen eye for detail and a creative problem solver with a “get things done” attitude. You should be eager to help and share your knowledge, with the passion for learning and improving yourself and others.
Responsibilities
Collaborate with others through whiteboarding and pair programming sessions.
Communicate effectively with team members, stakeholders and customers.
Work closely with the Product Owner and engineers to drive quality.
Understand and help refine user stories and acceptance criteria.
Attend community of practice meetings to drive common test approaches across teams
Work with the team to ensure stories and tasks are delivered with appropriate tests.
Make suggestions and take action on improving automation coverage..
Write and design test cases with a view towards automation.
Execute exploratory tests and log defects.
Create automated tests and liaise with teams on best practice and design.
Offer constructive feedback to colleagues.
Receive constructive feedback with a growth mindset.
Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in software development.
Share your knowledge by running sessions and creating supporting documentation.
Continuously find ways to improve something, anything, everything: KAIZEN.
Experience Required
Must Have:
Experience in QA and agile testing within a software development team.
Formal software testing qualifications.
Programming skills ( Java / JavaScript ) and test frameworks ( Junit ,
Cucumber ).
Proficiency with test-driven development ( TDD )
Good-To-Have:
BDD
Knowledge of and experience of automated CI/CD concepts/processes
Experience with modern monitoring and logging tools (AWS, Grafana, Kibana)
Experience in testing cloud native solutions ( AWS
preferred)
Selenium and/or Cucumber
Soft Skills:
Strong team player with a drive to improve both themselves and the team
Eager to help others and share knowledge
Ability to adapt to an ever-changing environment
Experience working on an international scale with a variety of cultures
A flexible but organised work style
Excellent written and verbal communication in English
About Us
Strategic Imperatives are recognised as the UK market leaders in fixed line provisioning with award-winning multi-carrier solutions for Local Loop Unbundling, Wholesale Line Rental, Fibre and traditional broadband as well as the channel premier SaaS billing platform.
Our products are used by 200 of the UK’s largest communication providers to manage millions of lines, traditional broadband and fibre connections.
Since Elevate was launched it has shaken the stagnant billing market and brought an outdated process up to date and into the heart of our customer's processes.
Who will you work with?
Our international development team spans the UK, Ireland and Lisbon.
Our goal is to have a constant focus on delivering business value through delivering useful features earlier and with less wasted effort. To achieve this, we believe that:
The smallest unit of software ownership isn’t the individual, it’s the team
Teamwork is something we bring to the group, not something we get from it
We believe in an inclusive working environment where everyone feels they belong without having to conform, that their contribution matters and they are able to perform to their full potential, no matter their background, identity or circumstances.