Everflow Water Hiring for Junior Software Tester Job at Stockton-on-Tees, England Full Time

Job Title: Junior Software Tester
Job Type: Full Time – 37.5 hrs per week (Between 8:00am and 6:00pm Monday – Friday)
Reporting to: Lead Tester
Salary: DOE
Closing Date: 6th September 2021

Everflow Tech is a software as a service company forming part of the Everflow Group. Our sister company, Everflow Water is the fastest growing water retail company in the UK, while Everflow Tech has a mission to build great software for the water industry and beyond. Our software is already in place with four water retail customers, and more are joining us all the time.

As a group, we’ve grown rapidly over the last five years and are continuing to grow, which means we need more brilliant people to join in with the next, and most exciting part of our journey. We’re incredibly proud of our people – they’ve made us what we are today. Our most recent Employee Survey said that ‘the people’ is what they love most about working for us.

We have an opportunity for a Junior Software Tester to join our Software Testing Team, based in Wynyard Business Park.

Responsibilities include:

• Create and execute test plans and test scripts
• Prepare and undertake Exploratory and Regression Testing
• Create test scripts that can be handed over to our Automation Team
• Get involved with performance, load and security testing
• Follow recognised agile principles and practices
• Help identify quality and performance improvements
• Estimate stories
• Collaborate with other members of the development team.
• Improve and challenge yourself and other members of the team

What we’re looking for:

• Test Scripts Can you take a story with acceptance criteria and turn it in to a set of test scripts that can be followed by any member of the QA Team?
• History A proven history in web software testing and quality assurance
• Automation Knowledge of Test Automation. We’re using Katalon Studio, so knowledge of this would be an advantage
• Agile. We are fully immersed in the Agile experience. We need you to be able to demonstrate experience at all levels through the software development lifecycle. From writing stories to questioning acceptance criteria. We have weekly estimation sessions. Can you work with story points and group estimating. Are you used to working with DEvelopers? Can you work alongside them and agree on what will be delivered in a story and how it will be tested?
• SQL Are you able to write simple queries to confirm expected results in the DB, or manipulate data to be able to set up tests?
• API API Testing experience
• Microsoft DevOps Are you familiar with MS DevOps? Or one of its predecessors? TFS perhaps? We’re using DevOps to manage our project.

Benefits:

• Attractive salary
• Pension scheme
• Ongoing support, development and training
• Great reward and recognition system
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Exposure to the Board of Directors and all parts of a growing business
• 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
• Flexitime
• Free parking

Job Type: Full-time