Parmenion Hiring for Software Tester Job at Bristol, England Full Time

Software Tester

Parmenion is a rapidly growing, award winning technology and investments solutions business. We launched in 2007 with just a handful of staff. In the 14 years since, we have seen the company grow exponentially. We currently house our 200+ staff in a magnificent open plan office near the waterfront in the vibrant city of Bristol.

Our strength comes from seamlessly integrating three core disciplines, discretionary investment management, platform services and intuitive technology.

The Role

As Software Tester you will use your skills to help us move towards a culture of Bug Prevention, working with the team to identify the acceptance criteria for both functional and non-functional behaviours of our product. You will collaborate with the team and using manual test techniques you will ensure the delivered items meet our definition of done.

Key responsibilities

• Actively participating in sprint ceremonies: daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review & retrospective and backlog grooming meetings.
• Collaborating with the team to write Acceptance Criteria for work items to test both functional and non-functional behaviours.
• Performing manual testing to ensure that work items meet the acceptance criteria you help define.
• Reviewing the output of automated tests suites, contributing scenarios for automated testing.

• Collaborating within your sprint team and with the wider QA team on test best practices.

Skills and Experience required

• You hold the ISTQB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing (or equivalent).
• You have strong manual testing skills in techniques such as Exploratory Testing and Session Based Test Management.
• You have exposure to test automation, and you understand that it is necessary in an agile team.
• You value performing software testing over creating test collateral but recognise when test collateral is needed.
• You are comfortable explaining features and can recognise their benefits / drawbacks to sprint team members and to members of the wider team.
• You understand continuous integration as a concept in software development.
• You are familiar with Sprint management using tools such as Microsoft AzureDevOps.

We can offer you

At Parmenion, you can expect a competitive salary aligned to your skills and experience which we will review each year, as well as a generous benefits package, including:

• Non-contributory Personal Pension scheme
• Substantial holiday entitlement
• Life Assurance & Income protection insurance
• Private health insurance

In addition you will enjoy working in our modern open plan offices in central Bristol, be invited to a variety of social activities ranging from payday drinks to film nights and benefit from our commitment to employee wellbeing as well as our focus on providing career development opportunities.

We have a long-term commitment to building inclusive workplaces; we value diversity in our workforce and welcome enquiries from everyone.