QA Engineer - Altrincham

The Opportunity

We're seeking a passionate and experienced Quality Assurance Engineer. As a Quality Assurance engineer within our Engineering discipline, you will apply your expertise in test planning, design, development and maintenance, while contributing to the ongoing growth of the QA capability within our Engineering discipline.

You’ll join a talented team of dynamic and driven professional problem solvers; creative thinkers and solutions builders who thrive on helping clients meet the most exciting digital transformation challenges.

Make a difference and advance your career by helping deliver some of the UK’s most important #tech4good projects, making the world a smarter, safer, greener, and healthier place.

At a certified Great Place to Work® you’ll experience a dynamic and nurturing environment that rewards initiative and flexibility and enjoy a career path tailored to your own aspirations.

About Us

Founded in 1992, we are a successful, growing International digital transformation consultancy. We deliver multi-Queen’s Award for innovation winning platforms and services that support large-scale digital transformation. Our digital, data and technology solutions are used by globally recognised public and private sector brands operating in a variety of sectors including Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Land Asset Management, and Digital Democracy.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

A Quality Assurance Engineer contributes to planning, design, development and execution of tests to assure high-quality software solutions, that meet business and user needs, working with a variety of tools and understanding best practice patterns. This includes:

• Helping to deliver and improve Quality Assurance solutions for high-quality software solutions working in collaboration with other Quality Assurance practitioners.
• Taking responsibility for Quality Assurance of small services or parts of larger services across all stages (design, build, assure, deploy, operate and continually improve) in-line with best practice.
• Working with Lead Engineers and practitioners across other disciplines to understand designs, and maintain up-to-date, repeatable test scripts.
• Building effective working relationships with client counterparts in your practitioner domain.
• Helping to structure and provide assurance for the work of other Quality Assurance practitioners.
• Collaborating with DevOps engineers to implement CI/CD pipelines for supporting ongoing software quality assurance.
• Collaborating with Engineering, User-Centred Design, Service Operations, Delivery Management, and Data Science practitioners to achieve objectives and successes within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Playing an active role in the Engineering discipline, driving innovation, application of best practice, and contributing to Community of Practice events.

Requirements

As a QA Engineer at Informed you will have:

• Experience working in Quality Assurance across the software development lifecycle, including both functional and automated testing.
• Experience working with Cloud-based solutions and technologies (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure).
• Experience working in an agile and Continuous Integration based environment (Scrum, Jira, Confluence).
• Effective communicator who can explain complex information to clients and other members of the team.
• Willingness to maintain relevant, up-to-date practitioner skills through continuing professional development and training, including accreditations/certifications.

Experience working with some, or all, of the following testing tools and technologies:

• JMeter, BlazeMeter, BrowserStack
• Cucumber/Gherkin
• WAVE
• OWASP ZAP / Dependency Check
• SonarQube
• Selenium, Cypress, Playwright
• Browser developer tools

Experience in non-functional Quality Assurance practices, including:

• Performance benchmarking (latency and throughput)
• Resilience testing (chaos and fuzzing)
• Scalability testing
• Accessibility Testing
• Security (Penetration) Testing
• Integration and User Acceptance Testing
• Operational Acceptance Testing, Business Readiness Testing

• Experience working in a professional services/consultancy environment preferred.
• Experience of the GOV.UK Digital Service Standard and Technology Code of Practice preferred.
• Experience taking responsibility for Quality Assurance on small projects or parts of larger projects.
• Experience structuring and assuring work for less experienced members of the team.

• A hands-on problem-solver, demonstrating commitment to software quality.
• A clear communicator, calm, can-do, resilient, and comfortable being challenged.
• Strong planning, time management, and organisational skills, with the ability to balance conflicting priorities.
• Detail-oriented, reliable, and punctual.
• Inquisitive, using critical thinking to ask lots of questions, overcome biases, break assumptions and consider different perspectives.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Able to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies and testing methodologies.

Benefits

Our benefits package compliments our highly competitive salaries and our great working environment. We believe that our people should be properly rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of our business through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.

These can include:

• InformedACADEMY™ – We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes, including support with professional certifications.
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan – We partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individual’s need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support and physical health support.
• Hybrid working*
• Private Health Care Cover*
• Generous life assurance cover*
• Gym Membership*
• Weekly office lunch
• Onsite massage sessions
• 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays*
• Sabbatical Leave Scheme* Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay*
• Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay*
• Company Pension Contribution
• Profit Share Scheme
• Payment of professional subscriptions
• Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals
• Salary Sacrifice scheme*
• Qualifying period applies

Culture

We are proud to nurture a workplace culture that is diverse, inclusive, rewarding, and egalitarian.

We strive to live up to our values of Innovation, Excellence, and Integrity by thinking about things differently, always doing our best, and acting in good faith at all times.

We’re a team of passionate problem solvers. We take pride in helping our clients accelerate and de-risk digital business change so that we can collaborate and codesign world class digital services that solve complex business and safety critical problems, particularly where place, location or geography are important.

Our workplace culture reflects how we go about our work, the type of work that we choose to do, and our commitment and contribution to the sustainable social, environmental, and economic development aims of the communities that we are part of.

We focus both on technical skills and equally importantly, on the cultural fit of prospective new colleagues. Our success relies on fostering an environment where creativity and collaboration produces great outcomes for our people, our clients, and our partners.