Job Description
This hybrid role offers a great balance of home and office working. You’ll join your colleagues in your local office at least 2/3 days a week.
As the UK’s largest fibre-only network, and its only proven wholesale challenger, we’re busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.
Designed from scratch for the internet, our network is greener, more reliable and ready for the future. The products we provide over it not only lead the market on speed, value and service, they help businesses to innovate, provide entire communities with a better foundation for their digital lives and support economic growth, locally and nationally.
What does that mean for you? The opportunity to make internet connections (and daily life) a whole lot better, for a lot of people!
Joining us as a Senior Software Developer in Test
As a Senior Software Developer in Test, you’ll help us build a QA practice that drives the quality of in-house developed applications and commercial package configurations. You’ll apply your technical knowledge and experience to produce clear, consistent, functional test suites and scripts, ensuring quality is validated for every change to code.
You’ll receive a competitive salary, a performance-related bonus, and a range of benefits to support you across your financial, physical, and mental wellbeing.
This is some of what you can expect to be doing:
* Writing test scripts/feature files using Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) formats
* Defect creation and management through the Kanban lifecycle
* Supporting in squad meetings for refinements, retrospectives, and demos
* Supporting the Product Owner and Business Analyst to understand the requirements
* Providing technical leadership and guidance to other QA team members
What you’ll bring to the role
You’ll bring a strong technical background with hands-on experience in automation testing and a good understanding of the full software development life cycle. You’ll also have:
* Extensive experience using Linux/Unix
* Experience testing APIs
* Proficiency in MySQL or PostgreSQL (including querying and creating test data)
* Excellent working knowledge of source control systems such as Git
* Use of BDD using Cucumber and Gherkin
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality. We’re endorsed by WORK180 and we’re a partner of Diversifying. We have pledged our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant and we’re a Disability Confident Employer. Working together with our Employee Networks, we’re wholly committed to ensuring that our people’s voices are heard, and that everyone feels a sense of belonging and pride to be a part of CityFibre. If you’d like to explore our culture and values, check out The CityFibre Way .
What you can expect from us
We want to offer you all the support you need to thrive inside and outside of work. This means giving you the tools to grow your career with us, as well as a comprehensive benefits package that you can adapt to your lifestyle. This includes 25 days annual leave, a day off on your birthday, a day off to support a charity or organisation of choice, a range of wellbeing and savings initiatives including private medical insurance, and supportive family friendly and menopause policies.
Additional Information
We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed, starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender, or gender identity, we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please email us at careers@cityfibre.com. We want to help!