Test Engineer Birmingham, England
Job description
Test Engineer (Manual)
Salary: competitive depending upon experience
Where the job is based: home-based, working with Kerv Digital office/customer site visits as required) UK HQ, Seven House, 18 High Street, Longbridge, B31 2UQ
Who we are:
Dive into a world where technology meets innovation. At Kerv Digital, we're not just another tech company. We’re the problem solvers, the magicians who transform complex challenges into seamless digital experiences. Utilising a powerful blend of Power Platform, DevSecOps, Data experiences, and Software Engineering, we create business solutions that truly resonate with our clients driving extreme value!
With our roots planted in Birmingham and branches spreading across the globe from London to Bangalore, we're a proud member of the Kerv Group - a dynamic £112m revenue technology consultancy leader with a dedicated team of over 700 professionals, partnering with 800+ sector leaders.
People come first always we are incredibly proud of our unparalleled work culture. Not just words on paper, we wear our "Great Place to Work" certifications from the UK and India like badges of honour. Dive into an ocean of opportunities in an atmosphere that celebrates collaboration. Sharpen your prowess with a global multi-discipline team and be guided by the industry's most forward-thinking architects.
Primary purpose of role: Ensuring quality of functionally rich applications that delight customers
Required Experience:
- Ideally 2 to 4 years of experience
- Performing planning of test activities for the assigned area of the project(s), develop test plans, test scenarios and test cases
- Ensure effective quality control during development
- Work with developers during execution stages of the project to resolve quickly and effectively the issues found
- Design, develop and maintain test cases, adhering to best practise
- Experience testing front end and back end systems
- Ensure strict correspondence between solutions developed and customer requirements
- Analysis of functional and non-functional use cases, and identification of automation candidates
- Creation of clear, meaningful Test Result Reports
- Being highly delivery focused and engaging effectively with all types of team members to drive projects forwards
- Other tasks as reasonably requested
Skills:
Candidates are expected to have all of the following skills;
- Passionate about quality
- An eye for detail
- Strong knowledge of testing theory and understanding of software verification
- Ability to drive testing processes starting from planning phase to test execution, bug fixing and support
- Knowledge of bug-tracking tools
- Excellent communicator, capable of engaging at all levels with customers
- Test Planning and estimation
Candidates are expected to have some of the following skills;
- Experienced in non-functional testing
- Excellent technical investigation skills
- Experienced in API testing, using relevant toolsets
- Automation experience using Selenium or similar
We’re also looking for people that fit how we work, which is something like;
- happiest working under their own direction, but fully supported when needed
- an obvious attention to detail, we want you to obsess about the little things!
- ability to work effectively with remote teams in India
- ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales
What we can do for you:
We’re a transparent, honest and fiercely equal employer that believes completely in providing the best possible work experience for our employee’s:
§ Real Flexibility – we’re a family first organisation, and if the work gets done, you can work when and wherever you want. A healthy approach for most of our teams seems to be splitting three ways between home, customer sites and the office.
§ Awesome Environment – all of our employee’s will tell you that we foster an easy going environment, are experts at what we do and care deeply about what we work on – that’s in large part because the company was started specifically to find a way for people to take more enjoyment from their work.
§ Interesting Work – these days most of our customers are household names and many of our projects have an important impact on the world around us. The kind of things we do regularly include working with not-for-profits to transform how they leverage technology, working with public bodies to shape digital services and working with top tier private entities to bring genuinely new and meaningful products and services to market.
§ Great Benefits – all the usual suspects and then some. Some highlights include our choose-your-own tech approach to end-user devices, well stocked cupboards with tasty goodies (we’re a food first company too), excellent professional development support including frequent in-house training for tech. you can’t get trained on anywhere else and private healthcare. Full disclosure; some benefits can only be provided after probation.
§ Recognition & Growth – Certified as a Great Place to Work by independent assessors in both the UK and India and we’ve just entered the Sunday Times Tech Track 100, which charts the top 100 fastest growing tech. companies in the country; we know we achieved this directly through the people we choose to work with.
Don’t take our word for it though, check out our impartial Glass Door reviews
At Kerv, we’re building something special and we’re building it to last. We want everybody to feel valued, included and love working together. With an uncompromising pursuit of amazing employee experience, we always strive to do the right thing. We believe and will relentlessly promote and support the power of diversity, equality and belonging, through collaboration and creating exceptional solutions together.
*Please note: By submitting an application you agree to Kerv Digital’s recruitment policy*
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person
