QA Engineer

About us

At Arbor, we’re on a mission to transform the way schools work with smarter, hassle-free tools teachers love to use.

You’ve seen the headlines. Sadly, the mess and stress of data and admin is a major source of unhappiness in our schools. 60% of a teacher's time is spent on admin related work, 53% agree that it contributes to stress and it's only getting worse every year.

So, at Arbor we put everything we have into building hassle-free school technology, like our MIS (Management Information System), that’s as powerful and intelligent as it is easy to use.

We’re a diverse and experienced team of ex-teachers, edtech engineers and education specialists passionate about making a difference to the sector.

Ultimately, we’re here to help make our schools and trusts stress a little less, and focus on what matters most - improving the lives of teachers and outcomes of students everywhere!

About the role

Our Engineering team are down to earth experts with a passion for transforming the way schools work!

We are looking for a passionate and committed QA Engineer to deliver superb quality software to our customers. The remit and focus of the role is to define and implement the processes and tooling required to perform automated testing across all products and services, working with our Principal Architect and Platform team to ensure these processes are embedded and able to run as part of our Continuous Delivery pipelines. This role will also work across product delivery teams to understand feature requirements, and define a testing strategy and automated tests to ensure acceptance criteria are met.

Your key results will be measured by reducing change failure across all teams, creating technical documentation to support QA processes and implementing required tooling to enable automated testing.

Core responsibilities

• Defining and implementing testing strategy

• Working at all levels to replace non-scalable manual testing with automated testing software

• Designing, developing and executing automation scripts using open source tools

• Identifying, recording, documenting thoroughly and tracking bugs

• Performing thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved

• Developing and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs

• Tracking quality assurance metrics, like change failure rate and open defect counts

• Staying up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies

• Remembering our users and that everything we are building is for them

About you
We’re looking for a minimum of 2 years in manual testing, and writing test strategies for enterprise/large applications.

Beyond that, we’d love to see:

• Writing test strategies for manual regression testing, encompassing multiple domains

• Experience of BDD using Cucumber or similar tools

• When you commit, you follow through, you do what you say without losing the details

• Clear reporting on issues found, how they impact the customer and clear steps for reproduction

• Experience working with Product Managers to understand business requirements, and define acceptance criteria and test strategies around them

Bonus skills

• Ability to write custom scripts to test API driven data

• Experience working in a fast paced agile environment

• Programming experience in either PHP or other C-based language

• Writing SQL queries to extract and validate data direct from database tables.

What we offer

The chance to work alongside a team of hard-working, passionate people in a role where you’ll see the impact of your work everyday. We also offer:

• We believe in supporting you to grow professionally and giving you the freedom to choose how. If you tell us where you want to go, we have a dedicated training budget to help you get there!

• One of our core values is to make an impact, so we give everyone 1 day off each year to volunteer with a charity of your choice.

• We promote positive well being and as part of this you’ll have access to a choice of comprehensive 24/7 well being support services as well as internal Mental Health Champions.

• We support autonomy and flexibility, and depending on your role can offer flexible working.

• Spending quality time together is really important, so to encourage this, our social committees organise regular team nights out (we’ve had pizza making, escape rooms, and even white water rafting!)

• We offer 30 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), part of which is made up of half day Fridays during the school summer holidays, a day off during Easter and a day off over Christmas.

Refer a friend: Know someone else who would be good for this role? You can refer a friend, family member or colleague, if they are offered a role with Arbor, we will say thank you with a voucher valued up to £200! Simple email: [email removed - click apply for more details]

Please note: We are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.