As a family-owned business our people are central to our success, and following years of organic, consecutive growth, we're looking for people who share our core values of sustainability, trust, collaboration, and innovation to drive us forwards.
Software never stays the same and neither do we. We want our people to be part of a progressive organisation, encouraged to embrace change and new ideas to shape our future development. Your input is vital, which is why we're committed to personalised learning paths for every employee to help you, and us, grow.
Our goal is to make the world of work easier as a leader in the HR, payroll, finance, and integration solutions software and services industry. We're proud to design and develop some of the best business solutions like iTrent and People First to support our customers' people-related challenges across every vertical.
Looking for the place where you can belong? Join MHR and help us shape the world of work.
MHR is offering an exciting opportunity for a QA Engineer to join one of our innovative software delivery teams. This is a fantastic time to join, we have ambitious plans to grow our market leading HR and Payroll SaaS solution and are revising our quality and test automation strategy to match. It's a great opportunity to help shape software quality and test automation for a large engineering department, and see your own skills and experience develop rapidly.
Our teams operate using Agile development practices, we promote collaboration, continuous improvement and self-development. We also have an established, supportive, and welcoming QA community.
Key Responsibilities:
* Collaborate with and help your Scrum team to:
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o Accurately estimate, plan and manage Sprints.
o Identify and mitigate risks to software quality.
o Define, measure and maintain software quality of the features being delivered.
o Prevent flaws being introduced to the application
o Provide fast and accurate feedback to software engineers when Bugs are detected
* Maintain automation test frameworks, adding new tests following MHR standards; contribute improvements to existing tests / the framework / test process or standards.
* Build deep business domain and technical knowledge of our application
* Mentor less experienced QAs in Test Automation
Essential Skills & Experience (Must haves)
* Experience using an object-oriented software language
* Experience using version control tools, branching strategies and following coding standards
* At least 2 years' experience writing test automation code for UI and/or API
* Analytical test design for Functionality, Performance, Usability, Reliability, Compatibility, both automated and manual execution
* Driving quality in an Agile environment through team collaboration e.g. 3 Amigos, Example Mapping
Desirable Skills & Experience (Nice to haves)
* Software Engineering experience e.g. contributing to feature development in a fungible agile team
* Designing and/or implementing API test frameworks running pre-deployment / on pipeline agents
* Playwright with Typescript / Javascript (our current UI framework)
* 'Driven Design' practices e.g. TDD / BDD / DDD
Our business and software are built on the following, experience in any of these areas would be a distinct advantage:
* C#, .net & Typescript or their derivatives
* Azure cloud platform and DevOps
* Angular
* REST APIs
* Relational Databases
* Event driven architecture
* HR and/or Payroll and/or Business Accounting legislation
Benefits to support you personally and professionally
Alongside the opportunity to work with an incredible team and express your individuality, we offer a range of personalised benefits including:
* Access to over 60 internal training courses, professional qualifications, and cross-departmental mentoring and coaching programs
* 24/7 access to a GP through SmartHealth for you and your family, confidential mental health support, and paid sick leave
* Ability to purchase or sell additional holiday days beyond the standard 25 days and bank holidays
* Discounts and cashback on leisure, travel, technology, fashion, gym memberships, and food
* Monthly employee recognition program and departmental awards
* Referral bonus scheme of up to £2,000
* Employee-led social events such as running clubs, football teams, book clubs, and bake-offs
* On-site subsidised restaurants offering a variety of fresh meals daily
* Opt-in benefits schemes such as private medical insurance and dental coverage
We value the well-being, financial stability, and inclusivity of our employees, and strive to provide a supportive working environment.