About the Role
Are you a seasoned Quality Engineer passionate about Quality Assurance and eager to thrive in a dynamic, maturing Agile environment?
Do you excel in designing and executing elegant & repeatable test cases and have a knack for automation?
If so, we want you on our team!
About Us
We are Preservica, and our active digital preservation solutions are at the razor’s edge of commercial software solutions, addressing the need for smart digital preservation technology. Our award-winning software is used by leading businesses, archives, libraries, museums, and government organisations across the globe.
We are world leaders and proud of our achievements – but to stay ahead, we need the brightest and most talented innovators to join our development team.
Job Opportunity
The Role
This Quality Engineer position will be a hybrid role with time split between home working and regular office days.
Working as part of an Agile Scrum team, your key input will be to champion Preservica’s Quality Engineering culture & ethos, challenge & motivate your feature team to embrace the latest in exciting industry-standard techniques in QA and write and execute test cases for our automation framework in Playwright, increasing valuable coverage and assuring your stamp on quality for our releases.
Other tasks will include:
* Maintain and increase the existing test coverage (manual and automated).
* Write well-designed, maintainable tests following the established industry standard practices in Test Design & Functional Testing, creating and executing manual test cases where necessary.
* Attend all key Agile ceremonies to procure deep product knowledge to challenge your feature team in ensuring all sprint work meets the highest QA industry standards.
* Design, execute, and maintain test scripts, maintaining their efficacy, investigating all failures, and taking remedial action.
* Extend the automation capability to increase both product & regression test coverage.
* Stay up to date with trends in methodologies and techniques as appropriate to the role and share your knowledge with QA and closely aligned teams.
Essential Skills
What We're Looking For
* Degree in an engineering, software, or system-related field or equivalent training/experience.
* Familiar with Agile development practices, including Agile SCRUM.
* 5+ years of testing, design, and execution experience and skilled in automation.
* Strong test design skills alongside a can-do, pro-active attitude - able to meet tight deadlines, participate in Scrum ceremonies, and collaborate closely with team members.
* Be personable and utilise effective, strong communication skills; be assertive and confident to contribute to team meetings as well as present if required.
* Good problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
* API Testing and related tools such as Postman, Swagger, etc.
* Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript and test automation tools like Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium.
* Contribute to initiatives and assist the wider organisation in continuous improvement.
Join us as a Quality Engineer and be a part of an award winning team developing cutting edge commercial software solutions.
About Company
Preservica are world leaders in the field of Active Digital Preservation and have been a leading light in the Digital Preservation and Archival sectors the since 2015.
We are a product led business providing SaaS based archival solutions to a wide range of organisations from Cultural / Heritage heavyweights such as The National Archives in the UK and many other national archives and State Archives in the US all the way up to major corporate institutions including many household names in Banking, Insurance as well as Governmental bodies.
We have grown steadily over the past 9 years and with the launch of our Preserve 365 range, continue to go from strength to strength.
We have offices based in Abingdon UK and Boston US. The majority of our people work on a hybrid basis with time working from home blended with occasional office days.
DE&I
Our people are important to us and we look to foster an environment of positive and inclusive work culture. To this aim, we have a DE&I committee made up of a cross section of Preservica people who keep us on track and both promote and educate the wider community on DE&I and related issues.
Benefits
22 days holiday (plus 3.5 discretionary days at Christmas)
4x Salary Life Insurance
6% Pension Contribution – into a defined Pension Plan held with Scottish Widows
Company bonus scheme – worth up to 3% of salary dependant on company performance.
Flexibility:
You can carry 5 days holiday over to the next year.
Private Medical Cover – (taxable benefit)
Salary Sacrifice – you can make a salary sacrifice for the items below:
Additional pension payments
Holiday trading – buy or sell holiday days
Bike to Work Scheme