Quality Assurance Engineer (Remote)

IRIS Software Group is a leading global provider of mission critical software and services and one of UK’s largest privately held software companies.

We help organisations to make better business decisions by developing integrated software solutions to minimise admin, make business processes more efficient and give more time to do what’s valued.

We started 45 years ago with accountancy software and have evolved to be trusted by more than 100,000 customers in 135 countries around the world. We invest heavily in development using the latest processes and technologies, driven by our Indian and Romanian Product Development Centres to build the next generation of cloud-based accountancy, HR and education solutions.

Our global and domestic payroll and HR solutions are used nearly five million employees. Almost one million UK employees are managed by our HR solutions, and one in eight UK employees are paid through IRIS payroll solutions. We are the largest third-party online tax filer with UK Government, and we are used by 54 of the top 100 US and 91 of the top 100 UK accountancy firms. We also serve over 13,000 schools and academies, and almost five million UK families use our apps to connect to their child’s school.

In the last year, we have been awarded Technology Company of the Year in the UK Tech Awards; Employer of the Year in the Thames Valley Tech Awards; and the Americas Prime Award from the K2 Enterprise Awards. IRIS Education has been named Company of the Year at the UK National MAT Awards 2023, and crowned Company of the Year (more than 12m) in the Bett Awards 2023.

Purpose :

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced QA Engineer to join our development team working with teams across Bulgaria, Romania and the UK.Using agile methodologies, you’ll be part of a Testing team working alongside fellow QA and developers to ensure we deliver to the highest quality standards. Utilising test cases, testing documentation and automated testing you will ensure the best possible quality for product releases for our core Compliance and HR software that is used by customers throughout the UK. The role requires close liaison and consultation with software developers, product owner, development manager and your test team colleagues.

Continuous Integration is key to our software delivery strategy, and you will be using existing skills to build smoke and regression testing suites to ensure we cover the applications with automated tests and embed these into our existing and new CI / CD pipelines.

You will ensure that the software delivered is of the highest quality, using continuous and automated testing. You will share your knowledge and experience across the testing team.

You will need to be highly motivated, have strong communication and problem-solving skills. A team player that can rise to the challenge of working in a fast-paced environment and prepared to learn and apply new technical skills.

UI and API Automation is a key part of our ongoing improvements to our testing process and as such will call on your experience in these areas, as we continue to improve our test coverage and implement best practices.

This is a great opportunity for you to join a growing and investing product and customer centric business, with significant opportunity for you to share and grow your skillset

Key Competencies :

• A methodical and logical approach to testing coupled with strong diagnostic and analytical skills.
• Strong communication skills both verbally and written.
• Familiarity with Jira, Azure or other bug tracking software.
• Understanding and experience of full software development life cycle from initial scoping and specifications through to testing, release, documentation, and maintenance.
• Experience in manual, regression testing, usability testing, stress testing, acceptance testing
• Solid QA experience on mission-critical b2b SaaS-based applications
• Strong knowledge of automation testing using a JavaScript UI/APi Automation framework.
• Working knowledge of BDD techniques using Cucumber, SpecFlow, Cypress or equivalent
• Understanding of DevOps practices
• Drive for continuous improvement and efficiency
• Triage, analysis and prioritisation of the support backlog ensuring that KPI targets are met
• Some leadership responsibilities, such as creating a test plan and coordinating the execution
• Domain expertise in HR / Payroll and EdTech familiarity highly desirable

Key Responsibilities :

• Collaborate with the product and development teams in agile ceremonies to understand requirements (inceptions, sprint planning, stand ups & retrospectives.)
• Accurately record the output of testing, logging defects with sufficient clarity and managing them throughout the defect life cycle. E.g using testrail
• Designing test cases and following testing standards.
• Creating, maintaining, expanding and performing automation test scripts.
• Ability to apply configurations and create test data sets.
• Maintain and improve quality of the applications delivered by the team
• Work with other QA team members across the group via Community of Practice
• Proactive and able to work autonomously, managing own workload to achieve deadlines
• Assisting support team with queries
• Onboarding and training new and junior team members