Quality Engineer - #2078367

As a Quality Engineer at Flooid, you will work closely with engineering and business teams within an agile environment to ensure the delivery of high-quality software.  

You'll contribute to both manual and automated testing, advocate for best practice, and support continuous improvement across the development lifecycle.  

This is a collaborative role where quality is shared, and your input will shape how we build and test our products. 

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with software engineers, business analysts and other team members to define and deliver quality solutions within agile delivery teams 

• Contribute to test planning, estimation, and the creation of test scenarios for new features 

• Design, create and maintain automated test scripts and frameworks 

• Execute tests, analyse results and ensure clear reporting of outcomes 

• Identify, log and manage defects through the software testing lifecycle, including root cause analysis 

• Support Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) practices 

• Ensure appropriate test coverage for all features delivered 

• Contribute to continuous improvement of quality engineering standards, tools and practices 

• Review test artefacts and share knowledge within the wider Quality Engineering community 
  
  
  

Essential 

• Experience working as a Quality Engineer or similar role within an agile environment 

• Strong understanding of test automation concepts and tools (e.g. Selenium WebDriver, Playwright or similar) 

• Experience with TDD / BDD approaches (e.g. Cucumber, Gherkin) 

• Good knowledge of programming languages and frameworks (e.g. Java, Spring/SpringBoot) 

• Experience using source control systems (e.g. Git) 

• Understanding of API and web testing tools (e.g. Postman, REST Assured) 

• Solid knowledge of data formats (e.g. JSON, XML) and database concepts 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail 

• Ability to communicate clearly and work effectively with cross-functional teams  

Desirable 

• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g. Jenkins) 

• Knowledge of Atlassian tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence, Xray) 

• Experience with cloud environments (e.g. GCP) 

• Exposure to mobile testing (iOS/Android) or retail/POS systems 

• Familiarity with Linux/Windows environments 

• Experience working within a global or distributed team 
  
  
  

Salary: Up to £36,000 - 44,000 depending on experience

Location: Hybrid. UK based. You should be able to travel to the Birmingham, UK office a few times a month.

Applicants must have existing permission to work in the UK. We are not able to sponsor work visas for this vacancy.

Hours: Full time, Monday to Friday.

• Flexible working - To help you manage your personal responsibilities and interests, we offer a range of flexi-working options, including hybrid working, as well as balancing your work responsibilities with other priorities, like picking up your children, caring for an aging parent or attending important events
• Holidays - We operate a flexible holiday allowance scheme, we recommend employees take around 25-30 days holiday plus public bank holidays per year
• A flexible pension - We help you prepare for the future with a salary sacrifice pension and annual personal pension reviews with our external partner
• Company sick pay - We offer peace of mind when you are ill with an enhanced Company Sick Pay policy
• Family benefits - We offer a range of support and benefits including enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay, enhanced paternity leave and shared parental leave
• Electric Car salary sacrifice scheme - An easy to manage and affordable way of leasing a zero-emission electric vehicle
• Online learning platform -We offer full access to Udemy for all employees, which offers a variety of technical, business and personal development e-learning courses
• Financial, physical and wellbeing support - To help keep you at your best we provide our team with a health cash plan and if the worst should happen, we have a life assurance scheme
• Access to a discount platform - Treat yourself with discounts and rewards from hundreds of leading retailers, restaurants, and destinations
• Professional subscriptions - We offer reimbursement for professional subscriptions to a relevant institution if it's required to perform your job role
• Charity giving - support a charity of your choice by gifting money directly from your payroll, saving the national insurance contributions you need to pay
• Cycle to work scheme - Make the most of this tax efficient scheme to improve your commute to work
• Rewarding long service - We provide gifts to our employees who achieve milestone years of service working as part of our team
  

If you believe you have the skills and experience to carry out this role, although feel you do not meet 100% of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway! Research suggests that certain groups of the population will apply for a role if they meet 60% of a roles requirements, while others will only apply if they hit 100% - we encourage applications from anyone with the skills, experience and attributes that will make you a great addition to both the role they are applying and the company overall.

Flooid Ltd. is an Equal Opportunities employer. We are dedicated to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.