Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Equal Experts

About the job
Equal Experts is an award-winning global Software Consultancy.  We believe happy teams make better software, and we take as much pride in our people, culture and work-life balance as we do in our output. Collaborative, entrepreneurial and dedicated to problem-solving, we help our clients improve their end-to-end capability. 
Our core principles 

•     Hands-on Delivery of work that adds real value
•     Continuous Delivery, automated when possible and appropriate
•     Constant Learning and self-improvement
•     Responsible Innovation – results come first
•     Genuine Collaboration, a low-ego working environment

The Role

You'll integrate into an agile environment, being an ambassador to drive quality within the team. You'll be in charge of all testing activities, including exploratory, usability, performance, acceptance, integration, and security testing depending on the needs of the team.  You will be expected to automate tests and processes whenever appropriate in order to remove boring repetitive tasks and help the team frequently deliver value to the client. 
Main Requirements

•     Solid engineering background
•     Expert level knowledge in at least one technical area of testing (Automation / Load & Performance / Security)
•     Expert level knowledge of physical testing
•     Experience with one of Java/ .NET / Scala
•     Excellent knowledge of testing concepts, architecture and practices
•     Experience with commonly used testing tools (e.g. Selenium / Appium / Rest Assured / Postman)
•     Fluent in English, written and spoken

Nice to have

•     Successfully applied some Agile/XP/Scrum practices and are enthusiastic about Agile techniques (TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment)
•     Knowledge of Usability testing
•     Experience working closely with Business Analysts and aiding user story creation
•     Experience mentoring junior testers and helping to affect institutional change 
•     Experience with Docker

Why Work For Us?

• Equal Experts aims to be a special place to work – somewhere that is genuinely a community, not simply a company.
• Our purpose is to enable talented grown-ups to truly be themselves as they collaborate on the most interesting, challenging work of their careers.

Five-star working conditions

• We’re proud to have our working culture voted as one of the best in the UK in the 2020 'Glassdoor Top 20’ (but we're focused on creating a great culture wherever we work!)
• This approach has helped us to be recognised as a particularly flexible, satisfying place to work; Glassdoor rates us as one of the UK’s best employers for work-life balance.

Work with the best, for the best

Our work is varied and covers the entire spectrum of modern IT – everything from digital transformation programmes for major government departments, to award-winning mobile apps for renowned brands like O2. The common thread is a need for faster, more flexible software