Be part of something special, join Phoebus.
Technology shapes the way we live our lives. How we work, learn, move and communicate, and with our technology expertise and talented individuals, Phoebus has been bringing a new market leading contemporary product to life, coming together to change the way financial systems and mortgage services operate forever.
We are recruiting for a QA Engineer to join our growing team.
About us
Phoebus Software Limited is a market leading provider of flexible, financial systems and services. These augment all aspects of lending and savings servicing capabilities for our clients, which include retail banks, mortgage/lending providers, mortgage administration servicing companies and building societies.
It is a fantastic time to join us. Phoebus Software has achieved recognition as the 16thBest Technology Company to work for in the UK and Top 50 UK Midsized companies through our colleague engagement levels.
If you are looking for your next big career adventure, you have come to the right place. Phoebus have an excellent reputation, continuous growth plans, up to date technologies and our people are at the heart of the business, we put an importance on our employee’s well-being.
We dedicate ourselves to promoting a happy working environment, we know that it all starts with our people and the rest will follow. Phoebus has also adopted a hybrid working approach as we understand the importance of a healthy work life balance.
We are based in the heart of Solihull, just a stone’s throw away from touchwood shopping centre where there are several restaurants that you can take advantage of with quarterly team meals, retail shops and many coffee shops to take a walk to on your lunch break or after work. We also have on-site parking facilities and are a short walk from the train station.
The Role
As a part of our accelerated growth we are hiring a QA Engineer to continue to expand our market leading, contemporary, Servicing platform.If you are an innovator who is excited by working with technology that directly impacts Clients, this is a unique opportunity for you to be involved in the early stages of the development of a forward thinking application, with a critical focus on enhancing the user experience, while leveraging contemporary Cloud technologies from AWS, and contemporary development technologies and frameworks such as JAVA 17, Springboot 3.0, Cucumber and Allure.
You will be actively contributing to the improvement of our Quality Assurance and engineering practices.Supporting teams to implement new tools and quality practices and models such as test first/shift-left, the testing pyramid, and Agile testing quadrants.Supporting and implementing CI/CD practices and deployment strategies that will enable confident release of software and protect our client systems from unplanned downtime.
You will be responsible for identifying and accurately document defects ensuring any patterns are analysed, including root cause and provide input to the scrum team for improvement opportunities and analysing changes and assess testing requirements and provide estimates to facilitate effective planning. Interrogating the quality of software delivery, this includes our ways of working, the design and architecture of the features the team are implementing from the perspective of functional and non-functional testing and the technologies we are using.
About you
You will be an experienced technical QA Engineer who specialises in thorough test analysis and the automated testing of applications and APIs – using all the tools and methods at your disposal.You’ll understand, and have experience with a breadth of testing types and techniques; with at least two years’ experience in an agile working environment.
It is key you have strong analytical skills – an understanding of architecture and business requirements, and an ability to drive conversations around quality with product owners and business customers.You’ll be able to follow an evolving test strategy based on the system architecture, and the governance and guidelines around the software testing life cycle.You should also be able to define and implement BDD-structured automated API tests within an existing automation framework.
It is preferable to Phoebus if you have experience of working in or with financial services, preferably with exposure to mortgages and have experience of working using the Agile methodology.
Phoebus Perks: Why work with us?
If you are passionate about learning and development and have a desire to help others grow and succeed, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.
🏥Private Health care scheme including dental, optical, and mental health cover
💪🏼Wellbeing Choice - £350.00 per annum paid towards wellbeing activities of your choice
🙂Life assurance scheme at 4x salary
💟24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
💻Flexible hybrid working
💰Contributory Pension Scheme with Scottish Widows
🏝33 days Holiday, including 8 bank holidays (5 of which are flexible bank holidays) & Holiday purchase scheme up to 5 days.
💰Discretionary annual salary review & bonus
🚗Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
🎂Events & gifts to celebrate Long Service and Birthdays & social events
Our Phoebus Values
At Phoebus we are driven by our purpose and values, building our team with the right people is fundamental to our business & culture.
Our Purpose:‘To care about our clients, our product, our people and having fun’
Our DONE valuesare made up of the following and we strive to live our values daily when working with colleagues and clients.
Dedicated,Open,No Nonsense,Excellence
Phoebus Software Limited is an equal opportunity employer. We commit ourselves to being an inclusive and diverse workplace. Our working culture embraces and celebrates what makes us unique. We would be happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments required during the recruitment process as we would like everybody to have a fair opportunity to succeed in what they do best.