Senior Test Engineer

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About The Role

We take a great deal of pride in our work, and it’s important to us that everyone sees the fruits of their labour. A typical project progresses from inception to deployment in less than a week, allowing you to quickly see your hard work live on our public platforms.

We have a range of systems including our desktop site, mobile site, mobile app, administration system, customer portal and embedded systems - used in third party websites (desktop and mobile). We are constantly developing all of these to add new features, handle increasing scale, improve usability and support new platforms.

You will be the advocate for testing within UNiDAYS, working closely with the Test Engineering Manager, the Software Development Manager, UX and UI Designers, Product Owners and Developers to create new and improve existing features as well as liaising with our Systems Administrators and user support team to investigate and resolve issues.

We’re growing our Test Engineering team, so there’s plenty of exposure to be had and opportunities to influence the direction of testing.

To start off, you’ll work on all aspects of the UNiDAYS offering, using your experience to test the changes we’re making to deliver a great Freshers campaign. Recent examples have been spinning some of our core functions out to independent microservices, shifting more of our web content out CDNs, supporting new languages across all of our properties, implementing A/B testing for our email campaigns, and creating a seamless web experience for students claiming discount on Apple Music.

Later, you’ll be knee-deep in the nitty-gritty of a change, tasking a developer on an unforeseen impact of their code, performing ad-hoc and exploratory tests or running tools to make sure our users get the best possible experience. We’re already active in 7 countries, but we’re building a platform to scale globally as UNiDAYS helps students in every country save money. On top of that, it still needs to look good, respond quickly, be secure, deploy easily and of course, functionally work.

Our stack is ever growing, but currently includes:

C# 4.6

NET MVC / OWIN / OpenRasta

SQL Server / Postgres / Marten / Redis

Most features of AWS

HTML5/CSS3/LESS, ECMAScript 6

About You

Passion is the most important quality you can have. As long as you’ve got some real-world industry experience, we aren’t too fussy about what you know or don’t - so don’t be intimidated.

We’re a small team so you need to be versatile and enjoy the variety of working on anything and everything that’s needed. You take pride in your work, and are driven to deliver great software.

You push for positive change within yourself, your team, your department and your business. We want to be challenged by you and to challenge you in order to improve us both. Everything is open for review and we take continuous improvement seriously.

You have a good sense of humour and excellent communication skills. You have the ability to listen and take critical feedback as well as contribute to group discussions and can articulate your opinions concisely. It’s obvious to everyone around you that you have fun with your work and with your co-workers - because they are doing the same.

Everyone knows that when you take on a task whether it’s huge and scary or tiny and boring, you’re going to see it through to the best of your ability and we will provide you the support to do it - every step of the way. You love to teach and learn from your co-workers and we love to teach you too. Tell us what you have been reading recently and what has been piquing your interest at the moment.

What We Need From Our Senior Test Engineer

- Proven/Demonstrable experience testing and giving feedback on large, public-facing web applications

- Proven success of working with the business on broader test initiatives

- Experience with coaching and mentoring other testers or non-testers

- Proven test ownership abilities - the ability to lead the test strategy for a discrete piece of work

- Previous experience of running internal focus groups / bug hunts or group sessions (desirable)

- Prior involvement in sign-off processes from senior stakeholders

Enthusiasm and drive to continuously improve, and to work with the the TEM to inspire and lead the whole team to do the same

- Meet ambitious timelines while balancing business risks and trade-offs

- Experience with any of the following would be beneficial, but non-essential: MVC applications, i18n & l10n, iOS, Android, test automation, tools-assisted testing, Jenkins, uptime monitoring, reading C# / HTML / JavaScript, security/penetration testing, performance testing. ISEB/ISTQB not required.

About UNiDAYS

Focused

We aren’t an agency with external clients imposing impossible time/budget deadlines, our code IS our business and so ensuring a consistently high level of quality is paramount.

If a job is going to take twice as long as its estimate to complete in order to achieve the level of quality we desire, then so be it (although we’ll expect an explanation); We won’t make you keep timesheet.

Agile Pragmatism

Everyone is equal and encouraged to work with each other as best suited to solve problems. If you’ve got an idea or a request then there’s no red tape. If you can demonstrate its worth then it's likely to happen - be it the use of a new technology, a piece of equipment or a change to our entire development approach.

We try our best to apply Occam’s Razor to everything we do. Our product owners and stakeholders truly understand the value of iterative development and embrace the process of continual improvement. We continually strive to reduce waste by keeping paperwork and meetings to a minimum. The development team is physically centered around a giant glass Kanban board which we use to track the progress of high level priorities and individual tasks. This goes most of the way to eliminating problems with communication before they even occur.

Keep Your Tools Sharp

We don’t scrimp on tech, you’ll get a beast of a machine with more RAM than you can shake a compiler at, SSDs as standard and at least as many monitors as you have eyes. Most importantly, you can choose your own peripherals.

We’ll buy you any licenses you need to be productive. We’ll send you to any interesting conferences you can find, as well as support you if you want to be a speaker. We regularly attend, sponsor and speak at our local meetups and believe in supporting and giving back to the community. We’ve run free training workshops in the past and are looking into Code Club sponsorship.

We have a fun, fast paced and social working environment. We use Slack for internal comms (i.e. GIFs), use Git properly, have a formidable Unreal Tournament team, a regularly stocked snack/soft drinks/beer fridge, games room with a Wii U, N64 and PS4 and bake cakes on Thursdays (compulsory).

We offer a competitive base salary, company bonus scheme, 31 days flexible holiday (including bank holidays), tram to work scheme, childcare vouchers and even 4.30pm finishes on a Friday during summer!

Come join us, You'll love it as much as we do.