QA Engineer Location: Talbot Green Full time, permanent Salary: £35,000 to £45,000 Tes is an international provider of digital solutions, which is passionate about using technology to make life easier for schools and teachers. All products and services are built with teachers and schools needs at the core, ensuring they are innovative, trusted education solutions. Role overview: You will be joining an evolving agile team that includes Scrum Masters, Product Managers, Engineers, and fellow QA Engineers. You will be working in a team that actively encourages openness and respect of one another. You will work alongside your team using transparent processes to inspect, adapt and continuously learn and improve. Key Responsibilities: Champion QA throughout Tes You will drive our quality agenda across our products through technology, process, education & knowledge sharing and innovation Represent QA during our daily Agile/Scrum stand-ups, planning sessions, product review and retrospective meetings. You will actively engage in discussions around the acceptance criteria and test scenarios for product features. Ensure that the tickets being worked on during the sprints are adhering to the quality guidelines defined by QA Engineering. Ensure that high quality standards are always achieved for all our software releases and a high level of automated coverage. Be accountable for recording software defects and providing technical descriptions and evidence, whilst also providing feedback and regular updates to the team to ensure that our products are developed to the highest standard. Identify and define opportunities for improvement, measurements for those improvements and the implementation and roll out process to ensure that overall quality standards and customer expectations are met or exceeded. Ensure solutions are robust and fully tested before they're shipped. Build and maintain QA reporting capabilities. Provide support, mentorship, and guidance to other team members. Contribute and share knowledge with their own team and Tes Engineering via knowledge sharing meetings. What will you need to succeed? Essential skills: Experience with functional, exploratory, cross browser and user acceptance testing. Experience with writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases. Experience in writing scenarios in BDD in Gherkin syntax Experience in test automation tools such as Cypress and Cucumber Experience in CI/CD and automated code deployments using tools such as Octopus Deploy or Azure Pipelines Desirable skills: Basic coding/scripting experience is advantageous, specifically JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Experience of API and Web Services utilizing REST Experience testing microservices. Experience in using Xray / JIRA ISTQB certified tester foundation/advanced. Demonstrate empathy, common sense, and pragmatism. Be able to relate and influence both business and technology people but above all be innovative What do you get in return? 25 days annual leave rising to 30 5% pension after probation Hybrid working, 3 days in the office Health care cash plan State of the art city centre offices Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World Discounted city centre parking Free eye care cover Life Assurance Cycle to Work Scheme EAP (Employee assistance programme) Monthly Tes Socials Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu Who are Tes? Tes powers schools and enables great teaching worldwide, by creating intelligent online products and services to make the greatest difference in education. For more than 100 years, we've supported schools and been a champion of great teaching. As education is changing, so are we. We've grown to provide a wide range of products to help schools and students flourish. We work together with teachers and schools to build trusted education solutions that help them to be the best they can be. From safeguarding and compliance, to staff and pupil management, and professional development and SEND provision, our innovative and flexible services help teachers and school leaders worldwide to provide the best education to millions of children. Tes has over 13m teachers in its online community and working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries. Tes brings educators together online so they can share expertise and teaching resources and it provides them with vital information, research and analysis about education via its fully digital Tes Magazine. Tes is a global company employing over 600 people and operating across 10 offices, including in London, Sheffield, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Dubai. We are proud of our people centric culture where everyone is driven to achieve the same goal. We are an agile organisation striving for continuous improvement. We invest in our people with extensive learning and development opportunities and support our colleagues with various mentoring and career enhancement programmes. Tes Global will ensure all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or on the basis of disability. We invite applicants to contact us directly to identify any additional support required. www.tes.com/tesglobal Other details Pay Type Salary Min Hiring Rate £35,000.00 Max Hiring Rate £45,000.00 Apply now Talbot Green, Pontyclun CF72 9FG, UK