Shape our future as QA Test Engineer

A QA tester is needed to join a rapidly growing technology service based in Edinburgh. This is a unique opportunity for a QA Test Engineer to join our expanding Agile software development team.

*This role will be classed as ‘Hybrid’ in Capita’s ‘New Way of Working’.

This means you will be working from home several days per week and joining your colleagues in the office several days per week. This will require some flexibility to ensure it is successful for you and your home situation, as well as meeting the needs of the rest of your team.*

Job title:

QA Test Engineer

Job Description:

We’re supporting our clients as they adapt to a new world in the wake of COVID-19. We’re now recruiting for roles which will help our clients to deliver vital services and to resume business wherever possible.

What you’ll be doing:

Working in an Agile environment you will be part of a team responsible for defining and implementing the QA strategy that ensures the platforms features are developed to meet the specified functional, performance, security and reliability requirements. This pivotal role will see you writing test scripts, designing and implementing test processes, automating tests (where possible) and managing their continued improvement to deliver scalable, maintainable and defect free software features across our social media analytic platforms.

This is a superb opportunity to a fantastic technical services company who really believes in supporting their employees and providing a great place to work. We’ll offer a competitive salary, great support from a friendly team and, as part of one of the UK’s largest plc’s, a whole load of extras, including a pension scheme, share save scheme and a range of optional benefits.

You must have:

• Have flexibility to travel for work, when required
• Have the right to work in the UK & have been a permanent UK resident for the last 3 years, ideally but minimum of 1 year, to meet security clearance/vetting requirements.

What we’re looking for:

Essential skills

• Experience working in a similar QA Testing role in an agile environment;
• Experience with the full end to end cycle of testing, writing test scripts, automating and executing tests, as well as control over environment management;
• The ability to develop automated testing using tools i.e. Selenium, Cucumber or Protractor would be desirable
• The ability to apply behaviour driven testing (BDD) or Test Driven Development (TDD) approaches;
• Experience across testing layers – manual, UI, service, unit;
• The ability to act as the point of contact for all QA aspects of a release;
• The ability to multitask and problem solve;
• Excellent attention to detail with excellent written / verbal communication skills;
• Good communication and ability to work to tight deadlines under pressure.

What’s in it for you?

• A competitive basic salary and benefits
• Private Healthcare
• 25 days holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
• Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave…and plenty more
• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology
• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform
• You’ll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita. You’ll be joining a network of 63,000 experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple disciplines and sectors. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we’ll provide the support you need to do just that. Our purpose is to create a better outcome for you.

About Capita Consulting

Capita Plc are the largest UK management, services, engineering and consultancy employing more than 55,000 staff aligned to providing services to the finance and critical infrastructure sectors and heavily aligned to all levels of government supporting key functions across the UK.

Our breadth of skills, services and reach makes us the UK's top player in delivering management, engineering and development consultancy solutions for our customers.

Capita Consulting is a new division created in December 2019 to take a new approach to the market bringing our earned experience from industry and the broad knowledge across the group to provide advice, guidance and our combined expertise to guide and develop unique offerings and solutions to our wide range of existing clients and to develop new streams of revenue.

What we hope you’ll do next:

Looking to discover more? Let your line manager know, then choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application and send us your CV. Any questions before taking the next step? You can contact alison.cunningham@capita.com  for support.

All interviews, assessments and background checks will continue to take place online, to completely remove the need for face-to-face contact. All Capita colleagues who can work from home should do so; and where it is not possible for colleagues to work remotely, we have taken important steps to protect those working from Capita’s offices. Social distancing, enhanced hygiene and safety measures are already in place at all Capita locations that are open to protect our colleagues and manage the risk of COVID-19. The welfare of our people is of paramount importance to us, and we’re doing everything we can to keep our colleagues and customers safe during this time.

We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.