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Grid Smarter Cities are at the forefront of the drive towards cleaner, safer and smarter cities. Based in the centre of Newcastle, and proudly so, we're at a very exciting stage in our company's growth as we look to bring a new QA Engineer into our core product delivery team.

At Grid we work on interesting, meaningful products in a lean, fast-moving fashion. We ranked top 10 for IP, and now we're bringing our products to the world!

We want to collaborate with interesting people and it could be you, especially if you have some of the skills and interests below:

• Solid experience in automated, manual, and exploratory testing.
• You care about the users of the product.
• You are a professional who cares about your craft.
• You like working as part of a team.
• You spend time thinking before doing.
• You don't think something is ready for deployment if it hasn't been tested.
• You're a nice person - we've got a small team which we're looking to grow, and we all get on splendidly, so we'd like you to help us grow our team and maintain our culture.
• You're a contributor - someone who wants to be involved in defining our core products as well as building them.
• You have a passion for growing your skills, tackling interesting work and challenging problems
• You are open to new ideas and ways of working.

What we'd like you to have:

• 3+ years experience in a QA-related role with frameworks such as Cypress, Selenium, or Cucumber.
• You are keen on TDD, BDD, CI/CD and XP ways of working in general.
• Strong communication skills and interest in a pair-programming environment.
• Passion for growing your skills, tackling interesting work and challenging problems.
• An understanding of agile development practices.
• Use of Git version control with Github.
• You are open to new ideas and ways of working.
• Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

Additional nice to haves:

• Experience in a development language such as Python, Perl, Java, Ruby, Shell, etc.
• Good code craftsmanship and software development skills.
• Knowledge or experience of CI/CD systems and tools such as Jenkins or AWS Codebuild.
• Experience in deploying web applications, databases or other backend services.
• Experience in developing/maintaining applications in an AWS or other cloud environment.
• Experience with serverless technologies and application development.
• Knowledge of using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.

Technologies we use at Grid:

• Cypress
• BrowserStack / LambdaTest
• Github
• Python / MySQL / Lambda
• Serverless and Microservices architecture
• Swagger / OpenAPI
• Slack / Zoom

Salary and benefits:

• Salary between £40,000 to £50,000 per annum.
• Work for a #Tech4Good company.
• Flexible working hours, outside of core hours.
• A defined contribution pension.
• 25 days holiday a year, plus 8 bank holidays; increasing after the second year, as you're with the company year-on-year, up to a maximum of 30 days.
• A Macbook Pro for work use.
• 1 day per month, solely for training and learning.
• A training and learning budget of £1,000 per year.
• A budget for purchasing home office equipment.

If you want to be part of a company creating a new parking-defining product, to help shape the company, as well as the products we build, please get in touch.