Senior QA Engineer Firmware

Job Description

Join the Access Family and see how we make software ideas become a reality!Our core value of Love Work, Love Life, Be You has been central to our success and so were looking for people to join us who share our passion for making things better every day and help us continue to grow. We are the number one UK headquartered software provider in the UK and are forecasted to grow to a global population of over 12,000 employees by 2026. What are we all aboutAt Access, we love software and how technology never stays the same. Its this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from the Hospitality sector, to Manufacturing industry, to Not for Profitsto Construction, and many more. Were passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business, currently helping over 60,000 customers to have the freedom to do more. About you:You are a dynamic, skilled QA Engineer with a passion for technology and a keen sense of pride in the work you do. You are a strong team player who thrives on close collaboration with your colleagues and takes shared ownership of the development pipeline alongwith the team. You are focused on delivering high quality solutions to given times lines and are comfortable in an agile scrum environment. You are constantly seeking to improve both your own skills and the skills of others and enjoy working in a fast paceddynamic company. You will be expected to mentor more junior members of the team, contribute to planning sessions and architect technical solutions as well as guide the technical evolution of products.Day-to-day, you will:• Work with and improve our internal Quality Assistance process within a fast-moving, agile environment.• Design and develop testing to meet agreed acceptance criteria and stories using a range of languages and technologies. Ensure QA standards are established, known, coached and followed within an agile team.• Manage effective test ware control, ensuring test packs are maintained, kept relevant and (where appropriate) version controlled.• Understand and actively encourage automation design principles, best practices, coverage and strategy.• Actively contribute to refinement, and take responsibility for understanding scope, risk, and complexity of changes from inception through to delivery.• Participate in defect identification, replication and communication including risks and required resolutions. Report and track root cause trends.• Own Quality centred activities including: static reviews, collaboration with Development and Product, planning, early discovery of defects, exploratory testing techniques, optimal running of regression periods and pro-active risk management.• Develop testing frameworks specifically tailored to testing hardware products operating on a critical infrastructorYour skills and experiences might also include: • Understanding of Test Design techniques for optimal coverage, including: requirements coverage, end-to-end testing, boundary value analysis, equivalence partitioning, exploratory testing, User Paths and scenarios, and data-driven testing.• Demonstrable expertise in the whole testing life cycle including knowledge of various test methodologies, the definition of test plans and test scripts, test execution and raising defects.• Experience in creating and maintaining regression packs.• Experience working with SaaS or Web-based products.• Experience with manual testing and automation at API layers (including REST and GraphQL APIs using tools such as Postman etc…)• Excellent communication skills.• Experience in testing physical products.• Good understanding of Risk and how to identify and assess it, including Risk-based Testing• Experience in assisting in the development of test processes and improvementsWhat does Access offer youWe are a growing software company, and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously and we will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference.On top of a competitive salary, our standard 25 days holiday (which goes up the longer youre with us), and a matched pension scheme youll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We pride ourselves on being an organisation that gives backso youll also have a charity day you can take to support something that matters to you. At Access were all about helping everyone Love Work and Love Life. Why Because we believe people can only be their best when they can be themselves. So, if you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesnt match perfectly, wed still loveto hear from you. You might just be who we are looking for. We love the fact that were all different. We believe by having more diverse perspectives at work improves how we run our business, helps us to better support our customers, and when you think about it, its just more fun!Whats holding you back Come and be part of our Amazing Access Family! Love Work. Love Life. Be You.