qa engineer London, England
Job description
About Guestline
We craft thoughtful products that help hoteliers effortlessly welcome and manage their guests. We’re central to the lives of thousands of hotels and their fantastic staff around the world. Our customers interact with our user-friendly and intuitive software in many areas of their working day, at any time and any place. We’re here to make their lives more enjoyable, more productive and to enable them to provide a better service to their customers or as we call it: More GuestTime. It’s this relationship that we help build between hotels and their guests that mean we have vast scope for innovation, disruption, and enhancement every step of the way.
It’s been an unprecedented time for hospitality and during these turbulent times we are proud that we have pulled together to support our valued customers whilst continuing to attract new customers. The hospitality industry has weathered a difficult storm and we remain committed to helping hoteliers leverage the power of technology to streamline their operations and provide a memorable guest experience.
It’s not just about the technology
Our team is diverse, filled with ambitious and creative minds, spread across the UK, Europe, and Asia with customers in 25 countries, across 5 continents. Our history guides us and gives us a great position in the market, but it’s our innovation and international expansion that will keep us successful. Don’t just take our word for it, every 10 working hours a new hotel goes live with Guestline.
Yes, technology and solutions are our thing, but what makes us different is we love to show our customers the humans behind the computers. We're all about personable technology, we give our customers the systems and advice they need to enhance guest experience and make their operations more efficient. Through this approach we have been awarded ‘Best Technology Product’ from Boutique Hotelier and Travolution.
About the opportunity
We take pride in developing maintainable software that will drive the hospitality industry to the next level. We really value clean, well-tested code and craftsmanship practices within our Development teams, using modern technologies and code bases you’ll be interacting with C#, Java and JavaScript. With offices in Shrewsbury, Poznań and across Europe you’ll be collaborating with diverse and highly skilled international Engineering and Product teams.
Our products and teams are rapidly evolving with the introduction of new development processes, continuous delivery practices, moving to PaaS cloud solutions, introducing metrics driven development, automating test processes and this is where we’re looking for a skilled QA Engineer to make an impact.
We fully believe in the value that a diverse workforce brings and we are particularly keen to hear from QA Engineers who are from underrepresented communities in Tech. For female QA Engineers this means that you will be joining our growing group of brilliant female Developers, Product Owners and QA Engineers.
What you'll be doing
- Working as a part of the development team to improve quality of our product
- Implementing and maintaining end-to-end automated test cases (JavaScript + Playwright)
- Contributing to CI/CD practices that will enable the team to release with confidence
- Questioning things all the time, thinking about the customer perspective
- Continuously improving our product, processes and tools
About you
- You have 2 years of experience in software development or QA and experience in test automation
- You have strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
- You have an experience in manual and automated testing
- You’re hard working and enjoy working independently and as part of a team
- You really enjoy learning and can demonstrate how you've learned new technologies to get better results
- You are a positive and pro-active person; bringing a can-do attitude to your work, showing genuine enthusiasm for your role within the team
- You have good communication skills in English
Guestliner Benefits
Our Guestliners make our business the innovative, progressive, and successful place that it is. Here are some of the benefits they enjoy:
- We offer a competitive package for this role
- We believe in continuous improvement and so we'll give you your own allowance to spend on your professional development
- We're open to flexible working as long as it works for you, your team and the business
- Your health is important and so we cover the cost of a Private Medical Plan for you
- We provide additional mental health support as part of your Private Medical Plan and our Employee Assistance Programme is available 24/7 giving you the ability to speak to a professional in confidence about a range of issues
- You will be covered under our Group Life Insurance policy for 4 x your annual salary, payable to your named beneficiaries
- In addition to normal public holidays, we'll give you 25 days holiday a year to relax and recharge your batteries and to allow you to celebrate properly
- Each year we'll give you a paid day to take your birthday off
- To give you a little support for the future, we offer a pension scheme with Scottish Widows. You can contribute at least 5% of your annual salary (or more if you like!) and we’ll add in a contribution of our own
- We like to have fun and it’s important for our Guestliners to unwind and get to know each other, our Social Committee organises regular events from local get togethers and charity initiatives to company BBQs and our annual Christmas party
Check out our careers page to see more of our initiatives at www.guestline.com/careers
Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
We're on a mission to disrupt the hospitality industry and a diverse team with different views, perspectives and experiences improves our ability to challenge conventions, support our customers and strengthen our decision making. We believe that all Guestliners should bring their best selves to work every day and we strive to create an inclusive environment which they feel comfortable, inspired, and empowered. We're committed to hiring the best talent by ensuring our teams are represented by all pockets of society. We aim to grow, support, and develop every individual during their time with us.
Data Privacy
Personal information about unsuccessful candidates will be held for 12 months after the recruitment exercise has been completed, it will then be destroyed or deleted. We retain de-personalised statistical information about applicants to help inform our recruitment activities, but no individuals are identifiable from that data.
Once a person has taken up employment with Guestline, we will compile a file relating to their employment. The information contained in this will be kept secure and will only be used for purposes directly relevant to that person’s employment. Once their employment with Guestline has ended, we will retain the file in accordance with the requirements of our retention schedule and then delete it.
