QA Engineer
Testing
QA Engineer
Londyn
Type of work
Undetermined
Experience
Senior
Employment Type
Permanent
Operating mode
Remote
Tech stack
QA
Test Automation
Git
Job description
At Kantan, we're changing the lives of tradespeople by giving them the tools to excel in a competitive marketplace. Our product is an operating system for tradespeople that helps them serve customers, manage operations and grow their business. We have thousands of tradespeople managing hundreds of thousands of jobs on our platform. And we are just getting started - our plan for 2021 is to scale the business three-fold. Our aim is to revolutionise the £45 billion home maintenance marketplace by bringing smart digital experiences to an underserved industry. We are funded by the OVO Group.
This is a rare opportunity to be part of Kantan’s scaling technology team as it disrupts the home maintenance industry and embarks upon its next stage of growth.
We are now seeking a talented QA Engineer with strong experience in both automation and manual testing who is able to operate in a highly agile environment and as the second QA in the team assist with building out the QA function to ensure the platform is efficient and robust.
There could not be a more exciting time to join this exceptionally well-funded business that is investing heavily in its product and scaling rapidly.
You’re the right person if
- You are genuinely passionate about developing products that will positively impact millions of people
- You love working in teams and collaboratively building features that impact customers
- You are motivated by owning products, from inception to continuous improvement
- You believe strongly in test-driven development and continuous delivery
- You love building scalable, resilient solutions
- You seek learning opportunities to deepen your expertise or broaden your knowledge
What You’ll Do
- Manually QA our app and website and further the coverage of automated tests
- Maintain the list of officially supported platforms and device types
- Carry out a full regression testing of the app and the web site at regular intervals
- Test all the new features against the supported platforms with a wide range of permutations
- Assist the writing of user stories ensuring acceptance criteria cover all edge cases and Use Case Scenarios are defined
- Work as part of an agile team on deliverables that are key to the success of the business
- Drive the evolution of the Tech Team by enhancing our processes and how we report on them
- Plan and coordinate end-to-end testing activities across projects and product teams within agile teams
- Effectively build relationships and collaborate with the Engineering Team and Business Stakeholders
- Liaise with key stakeholders in the business across multiple streams of work
- The creation and timely delivery of testing deliverables including test reports and metrics on overall end-to-end quality of BAU sprint work and projects
- Working closely with developers to report bugs and drive through to a resolution
What You’ll Need
- Experience in impact analysis and test scope/test coverage management
- Experience of writing acceptance criteria and test scripts along with experience of prioritizing scripts for regression testing (that could be used in future for test automation)
- Good knowledge of and experience in testing applications in a fast paced agile environment
- Creating regression test suites that are easily maintained and accessible for other Software Engineers/QAs to use
- Strong experience in automation mobile applications using frameworks such as Cypress and APPIUM
- Experience with standard developer tooling such as GIT / Development IDE’s a must
- Experience of managing bugs that are raised and ensuring that they’re handled correctly by all involved, ensuring speedy and quality resolution
- Have proven skills in operational service and experience of working in an environment where priorities are constantly changing
- Excellent customer-facing and relationship building skills that will be useful in communicating with some of our third-party providers
- A strong focus on customer service and have the aptitude to go that extra mile for our customers
- Excellent configuration/troubleshooting, analytical and diagnostic skills
- Most importantly as a person you have a proven service background with good technical IT knowledge and are generally interested in technology
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