Senior Quality Engineer

The Access Group is one of the leading providers of business management software to small and mid-sized organizations in the UK, Ireland, and Asia Pacific. Over the past years, we’ve gone from almost 1,000 to 6,000 people. We help over 60,000 customers across commercial and not-for-profit sectors become more productive and efficient.
Our Global Operations Center in Romania is on a journey of continuous growth and want to engage with top talent around the country. Headquartered in Timisoara, we offer you the possibility to work remote and join our offices at your choice.
Helping everyone at Access Love work and Love life is at the heart of everything we do. It shapes how we do things and allows us to create a place where people want to be and can be at their best.
We’re passionate about our values, which guide how we all make decisions and get things done. We love to make our customers lives easier so our value to ‘Make Access better every day’ is one we’re obsessed with. From attracting the right people, helping them grow and be the best they can be, we’re helping people at Access to love what they do and be happy.

Skills and Abilities

Essential:

• Strong experience of working in a fast-paced, Agile environment
• Strong experience of working with SaaS or web-based products
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent understanding of Risk and how to manage it, including Risk-based Testing
• Comprehensive testing experience and excellent understanding of test approaches and techniques, including specific approaches for SaaS products
• Strong experience of taking end to end ownership of quality deliverables
• Ability to work autonomously, demonstrating strong, risk-based decision-making capabilities
• Non-functional testing (performance/load/volume/concurrency)
• Experience with testing and automation at API layers
• Experience of creating automation packs from the bottom up
• Solid understanding of how to structure automation to achieve robust, efficient and scalable test packs, including the automation infrastructure required (page object model)
• Pragmatic, positive, competitive, assertive, commercially aware and driven to continuous learning/improvement
• Good understanding of how to design and execute static/requirements reviews
• Experience of developing QA processes and improvements within a fast moving, agile environment
• Willingness to travel to other offices on occasion to liaise with other teams
• Willingness to occasionally work out of hours to deliver software releases
• Undertake any other ad-hoc duties


Desirable:

• ISTQB/ISEB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing
• Experience of Test Complete automation tool
• Knowledge of case management software
• Experience of Data driven testing
• Experience of using Azure DevOps

Role-specific:

• Design and create test strategy, test plans for products written in the following technology stack - #, .NET Framework and .NET core, JavaScript, jQuery, ASP.NET, CSS 3, HTML 5, SQL Server 2014/16 and TSQL all within VS 2019 Professional
• Products use both an openedge stack and .Net stack
• Products are both desktop and browser based
• Design and implementation of automated testing solutions for the product, ensure continual addition of tests to this framework as the product grows, with the aim to eliminate manual testing wherever feasible
• Work with other QA team members to execute these test plans at good velocity to ensure release deadlines


Day-to-day:

• Advise and guide all quality stakeholders on the QA approach the wider team should take, to deliver quality deliverables
• Working in an Agile environment, own, manage or be accountable for specific projects and quality deliverables
•Co-ordinate resource or workloads where appropriate on specific projects or deliverables
• Follow, and help peers to follow, the agreed QA process and approach for both manual and automated testing, in order to align with the test & business strategy
• Ensure manual testing is designed and executed to a high standard, taking an approach suitable to an agile, fast-paced environment, according to the product teams’ definitions of done
• Design and execute static reviews, in line with the department’s QA approach
• Follow a risk-based approach taking into account commercial factors, make risk-based recommendations and decisions on quality, priorities and releases and manage quality risks
• Where appropriate, write, develop and maintain automated Test Scripts within the Automation Framework to ensure maximum coverage, quality and scalability across products
• Drive the development of test processes and improvements
• Report to the QA Lead on progress and areas of risk, including metrics where requested
• Work in accordance with the company’s policies and procedures

What does Access offer you?

We are a growing software company and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously! We will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference.

• Working full remote
• Competitive salary
• Great Holiday Package (starting form 25)
• Private Healthcare & Life Insurance
• 7 Card Sport Allowance
• Referral Bonus
• Christmas Bonus