QA Associate - Belfast Belfast, Northern Ireland
Job description
About Selazar
We are an eCommerce fulfilment technology company with locations across the UK and Colombia. Although, relatively young, we are already a key player in the marketplace and we have recently been recognized as a top 20 Tech Nation Rising Star for 2020/2021. We’re a multi award-winning business; proud to be recognised as a fast-growth company with partnerships across the top couriers in the UK as well as integrations with the leading eCommerce platforms, we are already helping major retailing clients automate their key eCommerce processes through their platform.
We are growing at a phenomenal rate securing some fantastic contracts, which means we can help you take your career to the next level. We want everyone who works for us to fulfil their full potential and take their career with us as far as they can.
At a glance
Reporting to the Quality Assurance Lead, our Quality Assurance Associates work collaboratively to develop and maintain software testing requirements for all Selazar products. You will be part of the Development Team, creating and implementing test strategies to ensure the Selazar platform is stable, robust, efficient, and scalable.
As a QA Associate, you will take ownership for testing our product features and improvements. You will write test cases, automate the process, and provide feedback to the Development Team. You will be imaginative, innovative and passionate about QA.
Job Title: QA Associate
Location: Belfast
Salary: Negotiable, depends on experience
Work Pattern: Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5.00pm, Hybrid working.
Key responsibilities
- Review product specifications and any technical documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
- Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.
- Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs.
- Perform thorough regression testing.
- Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs.
- Collaborate with members of the Development team to design, develop and execute automation scripts using open-source tools.
- Continuously improve test processes (Root Cause Analysis, Correction and Preventions).
About You
Knowledge and Abilities
- Demonstrable experience in a Quality Assurance role.
- Experience in a detail-driven environment.
- Experience working in a global team, collaborating with stakeholders at all levels. Fluent English is a must.
- Experience in using tools and technologies such as Selenium, Appium and Jmeter, Postman, SQL and Jira.
- Proven ability in managing test dependencies, coordinating test coverage and execution.
- Experience within Agile projects, with a strong understanding of the Sprint, CI and release testing lifecycles.
- Automation experience and the ability to specify, to develop and to implement automation frameworks and advise on industry best practice.
- Experience in Continuous Improvement - defining, improving and implementing test processes and tools.
- Experience in dealing with multiple tasks and effectively organising workload.
- Experience in making informed choices.
- Experience in taking ownership of work and embracing challenges.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, combined with a positive approach.
What we offer
- Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
- Increase in pension contributions – matched up to 10%
- 34 days annual leave
- Private Health Cover
- Holiday Purchase Scheme
- Share Option Scheme
- Birthday Bonus - take your birthday as paid leave
- Reward Gateway - exclusive access to loads of deals and discounts on big brands, including high street stores, travel websites, food and entertainment, health, and leisure and much, much more
- Peer based employee recognition programme includes:
- Monthly awards where the highest scoring person in the company gains an extra day’s paid annual leave.
- Quarterly award where the highest scoring person in the business for that quarter gains a bonus up to £250
- Espresso'Self – Monday coffee mornings between 9am-10am
- Friday Wind Down – enjoy a drink and a chat in the office from 4pm
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion
At Selazar, we are proud of the talent and diversity within our teams and committed to creating equality of opportunity for all employees and applicants alike. We are committed to the principle of equal opportunity in employment. We will ensure that recruitment, selection, training, development, and promotion procedures result in no job applicant or employee receiving less favourable treatment on the grounds of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability, trade union membership or non-membership, sex, sexual orientation, or marital status, or being a part-time worker.
We are all unique in ways you can and cannot see, and we aim to attract, develop, and nurture talent to continue to make Selazar a wonderful place to work.
We have fully embraced hybrid working and this has been implemented across all our office locations. Our offices are fully accessible, and we also offer agile working opportunities in many of our roles.
Recruitment Agencies
We do not accept unsolicited CVs. Any unsolicited CVs sent by your company to us – that is to say, in any situation where we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy will be considered by us to be a “free gift”, leaving us liable for no fees whatsoever should we choose to contact the candidate directly and engage the candidate’s services, and will in no way establish any prior claim by your company to representation of that candidate should the candidate’s details also be submitted by any other party.
