Senior QA Engineer

Job Description

Let’s start with the important stuff… Why would you join Bippit?

There’s way more to a job at Bippit than just a salary - we know that. We also know that money is important and we want to be transparent so you’ll find our range below, followed by everything else we deem as Perks:

• Salary Range: £50k - £80k DOE

• Generous Equity (if you don’t know what this means - check out our friends at Capdesks explanation)

• Group Life Assurance with YuLife

• Annual Company Retreat

• Group Volunteering Projects with Matchable

• 24/7 Digital GP by HealthShield

• Mental health support from Self Space

• Professional coaching for personal development by More Happi - access to life coaches as and when you need it

• Enhanced Cash Plan for dental, optical, physio by HealthShield

• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave - 13 weeks at full pay

• Financial wellbeing support and 1:1 coaching (of course!)

• Unlimited Annual Leave - we have company wide KPI that everyone has to take at least 25 days off per year, plus 4 wellbeing days and a day off for your birthday

• Remote First environment - we have office space available for the whole team, and use it for planning, collaboration, and ad-hoc work, but we leverage remote working as our superpower for radical efficiency!

• Flexible Working - we’ve been Flexified, so you can trust that we’re a truly flexible workplace

Diversity and Culture at Bippit… because it doesn't belong at the bottom of the page!

Our culture is defined by our team, and we recognise the strength derived from our differences. We look for people who are going to add to our culture, not clones of who we already have. This means:

• We strive to encourage and celebrate diversity and differences in our team & our views

• We listen to each other and respect everyone's needs and adjustments

• We are open by default, we believe there is strength in honesty, transparency and authenticity.

Who are Bippit? What is our mission? 🚀

Financial wellbeing is more important than ever. We are in a climate where 60% of employees say financial matters are their #1 cause of stress, & financial concerns make employees 4x more likely to be clinically depressed.

Bippit is tackling financial wellbeing head on, helping employees navigate the Cost of Living situation, where employees are financially stressed with nobody to support them, and supporting businesses and employers, who are losing billions each year due to retention issues and employee engagement.

Thanks to Bippit, every single employee now has free access to 1:1 coaching from a qualified professional, and all the tools they need to manage their financial lives at the palm of their hand. We are helping employees everywhere feel more settled in their job, and saving time for HR professionals.

So, what is our goal? 🎯

Bippit wants to provide everyone with guidance from a financial expert, no matter their situation, starting point, or bank balance. We want to create a fairer society, where each of us has the tools and support we need to build a better financial future.

What you'll be doing as our Senior QA Engineer 💼

We’re looking for our 1st Senior QA Engineer to bring their technical aptitude and engineering expertise to ensure we are building the very best product. You will ultimately be responsible for the quality of the product, create and implement a process for testing and new and existing features. We’re looking for someone who can help us maximize the potential for new or updated releases to be completed on-time, on-target, on-budget and without compromise to quality.

You'll report directly to the CTO, and sit within the product engineering team. You’ll work closely with the Product Manager, Tech Lead and Frontend Team, to ensure that everything that goes into production follows your rigorous process.

As the Senior QA Engineer at Bippit, you’ll have ownership of the QA function, and we hope you find that both exciting and challenging. We encourage high levels of responsibility and autonomy

• Testing: Responsibility for owning, defining and implementing functional and non-functional testing frameworks; manually testing the software

• deBugging: Identify, isolate and report all defects and bugs found in production, capturing relevant data

• Ambassador: Encouraging a testing mindset internally, empowering all colleagues to consider their QA responsibilities, Work towards more efficient ways of testing using the best tools/methodologies

• Automation: Develop and maintain automation test frameworks, advise on improvements, and missing journeys/review changes, smoke testing, end to end integration and building out scripts for the future

How to be an excellent fit 🤓(for the role, and a great addition to Bippit’s culture)

We’re building an open and inclusive culture at Bippit, where ownership, accountability, and getting your hands dirty is key to success, so we’re looking for someone who is relentless, motivated, self-sufficient, bold, creative, and passionate about making an impact.

If that sounds like you, then we’d love to talk to you about the experience or awareness you have with the following areas:

• Understanding of BDD and TDD testing approach or if you prefer a different approach, the ability to implement that across the business

• Experience developing and maintaining manual test scripts

• Good understanding developing and executing against detailed test procedures and test cases

• Project management and issue tracking tool experience

• Capable of using GIT and reviewing pull request

• Great communication and reporting skills

• Bonus - Automation tools experience

This should go without saying but all applications are very much welcome. If you need any adjustments to support you with your application, just let us know now by emailing careers@bippit.com in advance.