Please Kindly Note: This is a hybrid role that requires weekly visits to our office in Manchester City Centre, UK.

We are looking for a Junior QA to join the Pimberly QA Team for a complex, enterprise-grade SaaS platform and the PIM, DAM and other components it supports. This is a great opportunity to gain experience working on a large-scale SaaS product running on a modern dockerised microservices architecture.

Pimberly helps businesses to manage their product information more efficiently by allowing retailers, distributors, suppliers, and manufacturers to harness and enrich increasing volumes of product data, across multiple channels and regions – enabling them to get products to market faster and improve sales.

As part of the Tech Nation Upscale 5.0 program, we’ve been recognized as one of the UK’s fastest-growing tech scaleups. Following investment from NorthEdge Capital and the UK Government we’ve seen 100% year-on-year growth since 2016, and having recently opened an office in Times Square, New York, we are continuing our international expansion into northern Europe.

The company has secured contracts with leading UK brands including, JD Sports, Freeman Grattan, Regatta, and Card Factory, as well as international clients such as Brightstar in the US, Mconomy in the Netherlands, and WhiteAway in Denmark.

Main Role Responsibilities

• Working closely with Developers, Support, and the rest of the QA team to understand project requirements and develop appropriate tests
• Managing personal testing activities to achieve sprint goals
• Developing an excellent understanding of Pimberly and be able to answer queries as needed, becoming a knowledge lead for particular system areas
• Assisting in triaging queries and issues efficiently and translate these into feature request and bug tickets as appropriate
• Reviewing and contributing to test plans
• Setting up the test environment with appropriate technical support, including preparing and acquiring test data
• Analysing and reviewing new user requirements for testability
• Identifying and using the appropriate testing techniques and tools for the test scenario
• Creating, building and performing manual and automated test cases for new functionality, bug fixes, end to end testing and regression tests
• Ensuring software operates as designed and is compliant with functional and non-functional requirements
• Creating test reports for own testing activities

Key Skills/Experience

• Knowledge/experience of the SDLC, STLC and Agile process and different testing methodologies
• Knowledge/experience of creating and performing manual tests in a commercial web-based environment
• Knowledge/experience of defect management and tracking
• Excellent organisational and time-management skills
• Excellent attention to detail and a proactive approach to problem-solving
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• ISEB or ISTQ qualifications preferable

The Ideal Candidate

• Has a passion for all things quality and test-related
• Is a self-starter and problem solver
• Has an enthusiasm for new technology

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package: salary, pension, health cover, life insurance, enhanced maternity and paternity pay plus more
• Generous holiday allowances plus long-term service holidays and birthdays off
• Work from home flexibility
• Fun office environment in central Manchester
• Frequent Company events and after-hour socials
• We’re an energetic and inclusive organisation
• We believe in promoting a healthy work-life balance and support remote working

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: Up to £30,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Paid volunteer time
• Work from home

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Manchester M1 4DZ: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Software testing: 1 year (preferred)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person