Software Tester Remote
Liaison Group
Full Time
Remote
35000 - 38000 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Current vacancy: Software Tester
Location: Remote (travel required for meetings)
Salary: £35,000 - £38,000
Job type: Permanent/Full time
About Liaison Group
We are a well-established and trusted health economy partner, saving millions for reinvestment in health and social care through our Workforce, Financial and Care businesses.
We are dedicated to improving the health economy through expert advisors, established technology, and best practice process improvement. Our work has also been recognised with numerous HR and Finance industry awards.
All our employees work from the comfort of their own home. We now have over 330 employees based across the length and breadth of the UK, enjoying the flexibility of working remotely.
We are proud to say that we are currently the:
- 12th Best Large Company To Work For in the UK
- 8th Best West Midlands Company To Work For in the UK
- 3rd Best Consultancy To Work For in the UK
We are a 3-star rated company by Best Companies, recognising Liaison Group as an ‘World-class Company to Work For’.
Life at Liaison
The team is remote based, working from home across multiple parts of the country. They regularly communicate virtually, working collaboratively to develop multiple products. We recognise that development and training opportunities are imperative to thrive in a technical environment and have time set aside for comprehensive training opportunities. This enables our IT team to take a study day twice a month to advance their skills.
We employ people from various backgrounds with development opportunities for all. We also have a team-based 'Employee of the Month' award to recognise excellent work.
Job Summary
You will support the implementation and maintenance of Liaison Workforce System. Using manual and automated testing tools as necessary and helping to further promote test drive development.
Within the role you will plan your own workload and scope/requirements, analysing functional and technical specifications and user stories to derive test cases and scenarios.
Working within 2-week Sprints, you will work on refinement of the user stories alongside the Product Owners and Developers, ensuring that you share ideas and work collaboratively to enable the products to become ‘World Class’.
*Please note – the role will start in the Interop’s team during an integration project and then move across to the mobile team thereafter*
Principal Tasks & Activities
- Undertake test planning activities for Agile deliveries.
- Add test scripts and maintain Automated test framework.
- Plan own workload and scope/requirements.
- Analyse functional and technical specifications and user stories to derive test cases and scenarios.
- Participate in document and peer reviews.
- Agree test scope and scenarios with key stakeholder/clients.
- Identify issues and risks relating to workload, escalate these appropriately and provide suggested mitigating actions.
- Prepare input test data and expected results.
- Review own test conditions, test scripts / user stories, input test data, and expected results for all test phases.
- Effectively prepare regression, ad hoc and re-tests as required.
- Ensure software meets functional and non-functional requirements.
- Write test cases and document results in accordance with company standards.
- Help refine user stories by working with the product owner and developers.
The Individual
- You will have some previous commercial experience in Software testing, including web and mobile (IOS/Android).
- You will also have knowledge or experience of the agile development processes (e.g., Scrum), knowledge and practical experience of test tools and industry standard best practice and experience in, and understanding of, the software development process, preferably in a web based (SAAS) environment.
- Some automation experience is essential, but this area will be developed further once in the role.
- You will be able to work in a dynamic, fast paced environment, ensuring that you work productively from home. You must have good attention to detail and be inquisitive in nature.
- You will also hold an ISTQB Foundation Level Certification (or equivalent/or above).
The Benefits
We believe that our working lives should be happy and healthy, with the opportunities available that you need for continuous development.
We offer our staff a wide variety of company benefits, as well as the chance to get involved in a range of company organised events – from physical challenges to bi-annual staff away days, and social events.
Our benefits aim to promote a healthy work/life balance, supporting not only your career, but also your home and family life.
We offer:
- Training opportunities – ‘Steer Your Career’ programme
- Excellent compensation package, including growing holiday entitlement, contributory pension and private healthcare, amongst other benefits
- Wellbeing programmes to provide ongoing support and assistance, including Liaison Latte, Coffee Roulette, Liaison Life Skills, Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme.
- The opportunity to work in a supportive team, working diligently to support and optimise the NHS
Our Vision - To change the global health economy.
Our Values - Our values are to work with Care and Honesty, to Inspire and Guide our colleagues and clients:
Care - We are proud to help the health economy save money. We care about people.
Honesty - We operate with the integrity and are honest with ourselves, our colleagues and our clients.
Inspire - We are at the forefront of health economy innovation.
Guide - We provide guidance to ensure that clients can make the most of every savings opportunity.
How to apply
If this sounds like the right fit and you want to work for an award-winning, market-leading company, please apply using the link to our current vacancies page and follow the steps: https://myliaison.jobs.people-first.com/jobs
We are proud to support our colleagues and will offer an interview to any candidates with a disability, should they match the skills and experience required for the role.
Liaison Group is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We pride ourselves on being a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit.
Liaison Group are committed to the Good Recruitment Campaign and are official signatories for the Good Recruitment Charter.
Thank you for your interest in joining Liaison Group.
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Liaison Group
https://www.liaisongroup.com
Worcester, United Kingdom
Andrew Armitage
$25 to $50 million (USD)
201 to 500 Employees
Company - Private
Business Consulting
1988
