Quality Engineer - Preservica : Job Details

Are you a seasoned Quality Engineer passionate about Quality Assurance and eager to thrive in a dynamic, maturing Agile environment?

Do you excel in designing and executing elegant & repeatable test cases and have a knack for automation?

If so, we want you on our team!

We are Preservica, and our active digital preservation solutions are at the razor’s edge of commercial software solutions, addressing the need for smart digital preservation technology. Our award-winning software is used by leading businesses, archives, libraries, museums, and government organisations across the globe.

We are world leaders and proud of our achievements – but to stay ahead, we need the brightest and most talented innovators to join our development team. 

The Role

This Quality Engineer position will be a hybrid role with time split between home working and regular office days.

Working as part of an Agile Scrum team, your key input will be to champion Preservica’s Quality Engineering culture & ethos, challenge & motivate your feature team to embrace the latest in exciting industry-standard techniques in QA and write and execute test cases for our automation framework in Playwright, increasing valuable coverage and assuring your stamp on quality for our releases. 

Other tasks will include:

• Maintain and increase the existing test coverage (manual and automated).
• Write well-designed, maintainable tests following the established industry standard practices in Test Design & Functional Testing, creating and executing manual test cases where necessary.
• Attend all key Agile ceremonies to procure deep product knowledge to challenge your feature team in ensuring all sprint work meets the highest QA industry standards.
• Design, execute, and maintain test scripts, maintaining their efficacy, investigating all failures, and taking remedial action.
• Extend the automation capability to increase both product & regression test coverage.
• Stay up to date with trends in methodologies and techniques as appropriate to the role and share your knowledge with QA and closely aligned teams.

22 days holiday (plus 3.5 discretionary days at Christmas)

4x Salary Life Insurance

6% Pension Contribution – into a defined Pension Plan held with Scottish Widows

Company bonus scheme – worth up to 3% of salary dependant on company performance.

Flexibility:

You can carry 5 days holiday over to the next year.

Private Medical Cover – (taxable benefit)

Salary Sacrifice – you can make a salary sacrifice for the items below:

Additional pension payments

Holiday trading – buy or sell holiday days

Bike to Work Scheme

What We're Looking For

• Degree in an engineering, software, or system-related field or equivalent training/experience.
• Familiar with Agile development practices, including Agile SCRUM.
• 5+ years of testing, design, and execution experience and skilled in automation.
• Strong test design skills alongside a can-do, pro-active attitude - able to meet tight deadlines, participate in Scrum ceremonies, and collaborate closely with team members.
• Be personable and utilise effective, strong communication skills; be assertive and confident to contribute to team meetings as well as present if required.
• Good problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• API Testing and related tools such as Postman, Swagger, etc.
• Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript and test automation tools like Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium. 
• Contribute to initiatives and assist the wider organisation in continuous improvement.

Join us as a Quality Engineer and be a part of an award winning team developing cutting edge commercial software solutions.