Jisc Hiring for Software Tester Job at Manchester, England Full Time

Jisc is the leading UK higher, further education and skills sectors’ not-for-profit organisation for digital services and solutions. We operate shared digital infrastructure and services; negotiate sector-wide deals with IT vendors and commercial publishers; and provide trusted advice and practical assistance for universities, colleges and learning providers.

We believe in ‘Technology for Good’ – in improving lives through education and research. Our people want to make a real change – at Jisc, everyone plays a key role and gets the chance to feel part of it, that to us is the definition of a meaningful career. Being a social enterprise means that no matter how small our individual actions are, the positive impact on our collective is huge.

We’re a place unlike any other, where the best of education fuses with the best of technology to create a unique model with unique opportunities and interesting problems to solve in a diverse and inclusive environment. It’s what keeps our work varied, original and surprising – and that’s why we love it.

We’re gearing up for our most exciting chapter yet – one with the chance to both build new systems and make our mark by improving old ones. Our story will be written by those ready to take on challenges and see them through; the kind of people who never stop learning, celebrating differences and using it to drive better solutions.

The team:

The central test team sits within the Software Development Group, responsible for specific national services to support universities and colleges, as well as responsible for wider software quality across Jisc. We support a wide range of projects within Jisc providing testing services ensuring that quality standards are met. Whilst we are a centralised team all developers, testers and designers work embedded with the service team, communicating closely to ensure the right thing is being built. Projects are managed using Agile processes, and tools such as Atlassian Jira, GitHub and Slack.

The Software Tester will sit in the Software Development Group and the Software Test Lead will hold the formal reporting line.

About you:

We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box but we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You could be exactly what we need!

We are looking for:

• Experience as a Software Tester in a professional capacity on a system with live customers
• Demonstrable and proven experience in manual testing and exploring web-based applications
• Relevant technical qualification. Ideally ISEB / ISTQB certified
• Experience of working as part of an Agile team creating test plans, test strategies, and test cases using test design techniques
• Excellent debugging and analytical skills to analyse formal test results to discover defects, bugs, errors, and configuration issues
• Familiar with API testing
• Basic knowledge/awareness of Databases/SQL
• Good understanding of the software development process.

About the role:

This is an exciting role within the Software Development Group. As a Software tester you’ll be working closely with Product owners and developers to deeply understand the product. You’ll learn how the product is used and functions in order to investigate issues, evaluate new requirements and ensure the quality of the product is maintained. Software tester will have to understand the product from a user perspective to feedback on usability, through to understanding the behaviour of the system to make sure background processes have worked as intended.

Working within an agile environment, the Software Tester will ensure the quality of new and existing services. This includes manual verification of new features, exploratory testing for new issues and writing concise bug reports.

Other responsibilities will include:

• Working within an agile environment, the Software Tester will ensure the quality of new and existing services. This includes manual verification of new features, exploratory testing for new issues and writing concise bug reports.
• Working within an agile environment, the Software Tester will ensure the quality of new and existing services. This includes manual verification of new features, exploratory testing for new issues and writing concise bug reports.

Why work at Jisc:

We want to make sure our people have the flexibility they need to balance their personal lives and do well at work. So, we focus on outputs rather than presenteeism and are open to a whole range of ways of working, including flexible hours and working from home.

You can look forward to a rewarding job with opportunities to develop and make a real difference to the education and research sectors. At Jisc we offer hybrid working so you have the flexibility to work from home or if you prefer, from any of our offices. At times you may be required to attend meetings, however there are situations where you may need to work from the office more often, but will be dependent on your role requirement.

We’re always learning and developing. All our people have access to a huge variety of learning resources to help them achieve this.

Our benefits are great too. We offer:

• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays and three additional days Christmas closure) and flexible agile working
• A range of health and wellbeing benefits, including access to wellbeing support
• The option to join a generous pension scheme
• A wide range of discounts, a cycle scheme, financial wellbeing savings and season ticket loans, as well as a range of other benefits
• We also offer generous parental leave arrangements, career breaks and volunteer leave

Connecting with each other is easy, thanks to our technology but getting face to face is something we value and find time for when we can. Our main offices are Bristol, London, Harwell and Manchester, so you may need to travel on occasion.

Other stuff you need to know

At Jisc we celebrate diversity and know that it is critical for our success. We work hard to make sure we’re inclusive. So, if you are great at what you do and share our values, we want to hear from you.

If you need any adjustments made to the application or selection process so you can do your best, let us know. We will be happy to help.

Just so you know, we review CVs as we receive them, and interview as soon as we have applications that look like a good match (usually within a week). We don’t use closing dates. So, please apply as soon as possible to avoid missing out on this role. We advertised this role on 05/04/2022.