Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced and talented Senior Tester to work with our media client on their Media Tools team. The team own a number of products for the purpose of editorialising and scheduling content metadata for consumption by other systems and audiences.The established multi-discipline team works collaboratively to modernise the tools and products by decommissioning old systems and migrating functionality to new systems, enriching the content metadata to make it more readily available to aid discovery of the content and building out a new podcast management tool.The successful applicant will have extensive experience of working in software development team and especially collaborating with the developers, providing steer and support when required. They will be experts in manual and automated testing and have experience with Cypress, Playwright, AWS, Jenkins and Java.

Key Skills and Responsibilities

Tools/Technologies:

Cypress, Playwright, AWS, Jenkins, Java, CI/CD

Essential Skills – you will:

• have extensive experience of manual and automation testing

• have knowledge of Cypress and Playwright frameworks

• have experience working with AWS, Jenkins and Java

• be an influential team member who looks for opportunities to improve the team’s way of working

• have experience working in an Agile team

• understand and demonstrate the importance of being an active team member who looks for opportunities to improve ways of working and elevate the testing discipline

Desirable Skills:

• experience of providing QA support during software release

• helping to shape work in planning sessions

• have QA input during early stages of work

• experience or writing testing documentation

• experience of working with and sharing ideas with other testers

• an ability to learn quickly and keep up to date with the latest testing tools and techniques

Experience

• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field or similar work based experience.

• Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer ideally with a focus on media-related projects.

• Very good working knowledge of standard software development frameworks, techniques and methodologies.

• Experience with providing coaching and mentoring

• Ability to work collaboratively in a team, contributing to the development of business scenarios.

• Knowledge of software development tools and technologies.

• You are flexible and curious in your approach

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Additional information

Duration of the contract: initially 6 months with the possibility of extension – contract FTC (full-time)

Application Process: In addition to our standard recruitment process you will be invited to a final online face-to-face meeting with our client, for you to meet them and learn more about the role.

Location: Fully remote (within the UK only)

Eligibility: Candidates must have the legal right to work in the UK

Benefits

• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays plus birthday paid each year

• Sick leave following probation (20 days per each rolling period each year)

• Pension contribution is 10% employer from qualifying earnings following auto enrolment after 3 months service

• Private medical insurance via Vitality after 6 months of service

• Life assurance (5 x salary) after 6 months service

• Access to a free Eye voucher with Specsavers and a Flu vaccination with Boots

• Access to the cycle-to-work scheme

• Enhanced parental leave