Union Street Hiring for Manual QA Engineer Job at Remote Full Time

We’re a continually growing, innovative and multi-award-winning wholesaler and distributor of communications, cloud, billing and hardware products and services.

We work in a fast-paced and exciting industry, where we have forged strategic partnerships and relationships with the UK’s top telcos, networks, and vendors, including BT, TTB, Vodafone, Virgin Media O2, EE, CityFibre, Sophos, Microsoft and Samsung.

As a Channel-only business, we never sell directly to the end-user. Instead, we serve a market of independent resellers, which we proudly refer to as our partners.

We offer our partners a market-leading and comprehensive product portfolio, intuitive portals and platforms and a passionate team of industry experts.

We make a complex industry as simple as possible for our partners, enabling them with a commercial platform to sell the latest technologies and solutions to the resilient UK SMB market.

We have huge aspirations to challenge our industry and what we do, and we continuously dream big for the future. As a team of over 750 people, we’re all immensely proud to work for a rapidly expanding company with an incredible culture that puts our team members and partners at the heart of everything we do.

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  Salary: up to £40,000 DOE
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  Location: Home based with frequent travel to meetings in and around the London area

Main Job Purpose:

To be key part of a growing, supportive team. Incorporating efficient use of best practices to ensure delivery of robust solutions whilst meeting key deadlines. This role would suit an Engineer who is committed to quality, driven by the need for continuous improvement to provide exceptional solutions, to deliver multi-platform software. Whilst proactively keeping up with the Union Street suite of products and latest QA trends. The key aim on this role is to ensure all software produced by Union Street are fully tested throughout the development lifecycle. The QA Engineer will be involved in all areas of testing, from test planning through to manual QA, to produce high quality software. The Manual QA Engineer will work as part of or alongside development teams focused on regular release cycles. The Manual QA Engineer will help to describe features and produce upfront test cases and scenarios with an emphasis on prevention as well as defect detection. Working with teams to proactively increase product test coverage in quality and quantity.

Responsibilities:

• Analysing business requirements to ensure clear understanding product use to design, implement and execute high quality test cases.
• When required create, document, and demonstrate solutions which may include, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
• Ensuring quality is maintained throughout the software development lifecycle in its entirety while delivering solutions on-time and on-budget.
• Assist with analysing and resolving technical and application problems.
• Collaborate and assist, Management, Product Owners, technical authorities, other engineers, and customers to discuss technical aspects of the system to ensure delivery of robust, scalable solutions.
• Utilising excellent communication skills to raise issues to teams swiftly, and of a quality to ensure fixes are promptly resolved.
• Actively passionate about discovery and self-learning of new technology, methods, and relevant industry trends and sharing these with the team.
• Active participation in agile activities
• To preserve information security, report security breaches, in line with the Information Security Policy, and to act in accordance with the requirements of the Information Security Management System

Skills, Knowledge and experience:

• Proven experience of working within full SDLC
• Thorough working knowledge of structured test methodologies and processes
• Experience writing SQL queries at an intermediate level, using Windows Services, IIS etc.
• Experience working with Bug tracking tools and test case management tools
• Working knowledge of testing windows desktop, web, and Client-Server applications
• Good understanding of complex business systems
• Ability to adhere to coding standards, ‘best practice’ methods and company procedures
• Excellent; Communication skills, Logical and analytical thinking with great attention to detail and dedication to quality code.
• Flexible, Enthusiastic, and willing to go the extra mile. Happy to embrace change.
• Ability and drive to pull out all the stops to achieve tight deadlines.
• Proactive and self-motivated – the ability to work unsupervised. great organizational, time management and planning skills.
• Capable of generating and implementing new ideas and learning from experiences
• ISEB or ISTQB accredited
• Design and implement functional test scripts that ensure coverage of both expected and unexpected behaviour
• Knowledge of programming concepts and BDD testing
• Selenium Web Driver
• Knowledge of Testrail
• Use of Atlassian suite of products
• Experience of Billing or Provisioning Software would be seen as an advantage
• Active in testing communities and happy to share thoughts and views on new technologies

Additional Information

Giacom, DWS and Union Street are part of the same group of companies, bringing together three leading channel solutions in telecoms, cloud software services and cloud billing. Our aspiration is to be the number one supplier in the channel.

Your job role may be focused at one of the brands, but you will interact and impact across the wider group of companies.

What’s in it for you? Why should you come and work for us?

Our benefits consist of; no dress code (you, do you), days off for special life events, work from anywhere concept with occasional travel for training or meetings. Work with and learn from experts in the telecoms industry, a wellbeing and engagement team, ‘if you want a career with us then grab it’ concept, recognition and team/industry events as well as a whole host of other benefits which can be found on our website www.digitalwholesalesolutions.com on our Careers page.

We are an equal opportunities employer, and we positively encourage applications from all eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy or maternity.

We aim to ensure that all applicants are provided with the same opportunities during the recruitment process, and, to that end, we strive to comply with the duties placed upon us to make reasonable adjustments as prescribed by the Equality Act 2010. Should you have a disability or long-term health condition and require a particular adjustment to be made to allow you to fully participate in the recruitment process, please ensure you let me know.

Successful applicants will be required to undertake a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check, provide two references and proof of right to work in the UK, unrestricted.

Here are some of the benefits that we offer…

• 24 days holidays, plus bank holidays, and the option to purchase more!
• Pension
• Employees Assistance Programme
• Professional development to help you achieve your personal goals
• Eye care vouchers available and discounted Medicash membership
• Access to discounts and savings at more than 1,200 retailers
• An additional day off on your birthday or if you’re getting married

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