Quality Assurance Engineer Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
About Recast
Recast is a subscription-free, live and on-demand streaming platform which gives Fans easy and affordable access to the sports and entertainment they love, paying Publishers for every single view, with up to 85% of all income generated going to them directly.
Recast is already available in 100 countries and has over 400 channels ranging from British Fencing to Manchester City FC and World Curling, with a steady stream of new channels coming onboard.
The team at Recast are Driven, Resilient and Transparent. If these values resonate with you then keep reading!
About You
You’re an experienced QA professional, able to manage your own time and work effectively in a fast-paced development environment. You will be joining a small test team, and we anticipate making more hires over the next 18 months. We are open to applications from anybody with at least two years of experience.
You’ll be joining a fast-paced, good-natured team at the early stage of building something amazing. Our management team has a wealth of experience and we’ve secured significant funding. For the right person this is a great opportunity to get in early doors, hone your talents on some big challenges, and learn and grow with the company.
What you will be doing
You will be working with the whole technical product team to ensure that our app works correctly and delivers the service our users and publishers need. Specific things you will be do include:
- Work with the product team to ensure that requirements are clear and testable
- Identify and communicate risks as early as possible within the development lifecycle
- Create and execute test plans to ensure the app continues to work correctly, and that new features work as intended
- Work with the development and infrastructure teams to understand the current state of work, set up test environments and resolve issues
- Build automated tests of core features to make regression testing and cross-browser testing easier and more accurate
- Provide feedback and work with other team members to refine and improve processes
What skills you will need
If you are missing some of the skills or knowledge listed, but you are generally a good fit, please apply anyway. Tell us where you are strong and where you might need help or time to learn.
Our app is currently entirely web-based, and optimised to run as a PWA on mobile devices. It is a complex app using a range of fairly recent web APIs and features. We are in the process of optimising for other platforms such as desktop and set-top devices. In order to help us develop for this environment you will need:
- Significant experience in functional testing of user facing applications, particularly web-based applications and live services
- Understanding of web technologies, such as HTML, CSS and Javascript
- A knowledge of common tools and techniques for debugging and monitoring web apps
- Understanding of the compatibility issues across multiple browsers and devices, and how to test across them
- Experience with testing on mobile devices (Mobile web and native)
- Experience contributing to a test automation framework (Playwright, Cypress etc.) would be highly desirable
More generally, we like to see:
- Creation of new test frameworks to support feature development
- Exposure to implementation of test automation practices within an Agile delivery process, including automated UI and API testing
- Exposure to working in a Scrum-based development environment
- Ability to rapidly understand and question requirements to formulate tests scripted and non-scripted test approaches
- A knack for finding and describing problems and strong attention to detail
- A functional understanding of SQL, able to run queries and interpret data
- Exposure to video and/or money-based platforms would be nice to have
The team is spread across the UK and Poland, but all team communications and documentation are in English, so you will need to speak and write English to a professional standard. You will need to communicate effectively within the technical team and across the wider business
Job Details
This is a full-time position in central Edinburgh. We anticipate the role being office-based for a minimum of two days a week, and aim to allow everybody to work in the office more if they prefer to.
Salary : £32k-45k DOE
Perks
We hope that the self satisfaction you get from working with us will outweigh any side line offerings we make but we hire the best to be the best and in order to maintain your ‘mojo’ we offer the following incentives:
- Unlimited holiday
- Flexible working
- £500 annual training budget
- Life insurance
- Dog friendly office
- Share options
- Charitable giving days
In addition there’s the routine get-togethers and all-round camaraderie you’d expect from a start-up.
Applying
We don’t use any automated filtering systems - all applications will be reviewed by a member of the recruitment team. We welcome covering letters if there is anything you would like to expand upon.
Unfortunately we are unable to respond to everyone with individual feedback. We aim to review applications and interview promising candidates quickly, and will generally get back to you within 1-2 weeks if we plan to progress your application.
We are committed to eliminating discrimination and have a commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion in the workplace. All applications are treated with the utmost respect and are reviewed without bias towards gender, race, religious preference or disability.
Interview Process
Introductory call
- Introduce Recast, what we do and find out a little more about yourself
Meet the Hiring manager (Principal Automation engineer) [1hr-2hrs]
- Introduce QA within Recast
- Explanation of the role
- Discussion about your previous experience and suitability for the position
Team introduction [30min - 1hr]
- Meet 1-2 people from the team you would be joining, should your application be successful
Feedback
- We will provide feedback, either to you directly, or through your recruitment agent about the status of your application.
