QA Test Engineer

We are currently hiring for a QA Engineer to join the recently launched, Admiral Business!

About Admiral Pioneer

Admiral Pioneer is a new entity within Admiral Group with the objective of seeding, launching and scaling new businesses in areas of increasing societal importance. We are focusing on three significant domains:

•  Mobility

•  Future of Work

•  Live to 101

These domains are long term growth areas for Admiral. We anchor around meeting customer needs and are focused on experimenting and proving new products, business models and partnerships through a discovery driven approach.

We aren’t an incubator, we are building a dynamic and energising environment where we will provide all the excitement and freedom of a start-up, with the support and stability of an established organisation. We want to recruit passionate business builders who look at the world and see huge opportunities to change it.

The Admiral Business Team

Surviving in business is tough. Succeeding is even harder. We want to make it possible for more small businesses to survive and thrive - by building personalised products and services that allow our customers to run their business as well as they perform their craft.

We are a high-impact collaborative team of passionate individuals who are constantly looking at ways to enhance customer experience through a human centred design approach, rigour experimentation and a test and learn mindset. We are looking for bright and talented individuals who have a can-do attitude and will thrive in this enabling environment. We treat our colleagues openly, equally, and fairly and give them a ton of opportunity and freedom to do their best work and make a positive impact.

The Role

The QA Test Engineer role is designed to support the tech portfolio of projects by ensuring all products are designed and implemented following the most efficient and controlled QA procedures. Working as part of a cross functional team you will input into requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, test case design and execution.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and curious individual, who can think creatively to solve problems and meet user requirements. You must have a keen interest in testing and quality assurance, applying shift-left, test-first principles with hands on experience of manual and automated testing.

As we work within an Agile framework, we are looking for someone who can work both independently and as part of their cross functional team within a fast-paced and changing environment. This requires an individual who can deliver to agreed timelines, communicating effectively, leading by example, and thinking innovatively.

Experience of working in an integrated team, refining, and prioritising a backlog and delivering in an Agile methodology is a must with a willingness to perform manual and automated testing as required.

Main Duties

• Cover manual and automated test creation as required across the Admiral Business’s systems and processes
• Work with the cross functional teams and help to enhance the current automation testing in place
• Ability to input into User Story creation with detailed acceptance criteria that can then be used as a Test Basis to write and execute comprehensive, thorough, and effective test cases and regression suites
• Being able to work effectively within the Agile methodology and participate fully in sprint ceremonies, communicating back to team on sprint progress, blockers etc.
• Ability to record, report, analyse and manage defects found during testing and manage through to closure
• Support the deployment of changes into the production environment and aid in the investigation of live issues or incidents

Experience

• Experience of testing complex Technology projects through to completion, resulting in delivery of robust and high-quality applications
• Proven QA experience including system, functional, acceptance, and non-functional testing of web applications, apps, and services
• Automation experience using tools such as Selenium, Playwright, or similar

Essential skills

• Manual and Automated testing across all test phases
• Strong Communication skills
• UI testing
• API testing
• Experience of working in an Agile methodology
• Experience in using defect management tools such as JIRA

Desirable skills

• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins
• Java script
• Experience with API tools such as Postman and SoapUI

Qualifications (preferable but not mandatory)

• ISTQB Certified Tester
• ISTQB Test Automation Engineer

Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to Work For in the UK.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here

Our Commitment to You

At Admiral, we are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. Admiral is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration.

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