QA Engineer

Job Description

Are you passionate about quality and eager to make a significant impact on platform reliability, stability, and performance?

At evaluagent, we are looking for our next QA Engineer to advocate for quality, ensure comprehensive test coverage, and embed best practices within our team.

We're evaluagent, a remote, UK-based tech scale-up with a global footprint, serving esteemed brands like Samsung, Ubisoft, First Central, and Vitality Health. Following a recent $20m Series A funding round, we're poised for exponential growth.

Overview:

Salary - In the region of £40,000 - £45,000, based on your previous experience

Location - Home based in the UK

Type - Full-time, 40 hours, Permanent

Reports to - QA Lead

What you'll do:

• Champion quality within the team, ensuring appropriate test types are performed prior to deployment.
• Advocating for the customer and maintaining a collaborative approach where everyone is responsible for quality and testing activities.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders and the development team to analyse and question requirements, ensuring a thorough understanding.
• Perform Test Analysis of functional and non-functional specifications, identifying test scenarios, and creating test cases while considering test data requirements.
• Develop and maintain business-facing test automation using tools like Cypress with JavaScript as the primary language.
• Add and maintain Synthetic Tests to our CI/CD pipeline and monitor performance and stability of changes through Datadog.
• Evolve our approach to shifting testing both left and right to ensure we minimize feedback loops in both development and on production.
• Execute manual and automated tests, report defects, and track their resolution.
• Test manually and support the teams' manual efforts where automation is not yet possible or cost-effective.
• Enhance testability and embed best quality practices within the team to ensure continuous improvement.

About You:

Our ideal candidate will have:

• 3+ years of experience in a similar role, with a solid background in software testing and quality assurance in an Agile environment.
• Proficiency in test methodologies and design techniques - any exposure to security, performance, accessibility or usability is beneficial.
• Experience with test automation in at least one programming language e.g. Java, Typescript, or JavaScript.
• Exposure to Application Monitoring tools such as Datadog, including experience monitoring performance regressions and the stability of new releases.
• An alignment with our core values: Passion, Curiosity & Generoisty.

Perks of the job:

💰 Salary: In the region of £40,000 - £45,000, based on your previous experience

🏠 Home-Based Working: Everyone works remotely at evaluagent.

🕒 Flexible Working Hours: Support for flexible working hours to accommodate a healthy work-life balance.

💼 Co-Working Allowance: Use your co-working allowance to work from a co-working space if you fancy a change of scenery.

💡 Home Working Allowance: We pay a home working allowance towards Wifi and electricity.

💰 Pensions Contribution (Evaluagent will contribute 5%)

💼 Income Protection for long term sickness and Life Insurance

🎉 Two Company Meet-Ups Per Year and quarterly Team Meet-Ups in the UK

🩺 Private Health Insurance with Vitality - Support for when you need it the most, including mental health support and therapy. Earn rewards towards free Nero coffee, smart watches, cinema tickets, reduced gym memberships and more.

🗓️ 25 days holiday plus bank holidays - Plus your Birthday off, and the option to buy an extra 3 days.

🏝 Working Abroad - Work from anywhere for up to 6 weeks at a time, over 120 days (incl. holiday days).

📚 Growth and Development - Supported bespoke Personal Development plan with dedicated L&D days. You will receive regular coaching and mentoring from experts across the business.

❤️ Volunteer Day - Spend the day making a difference in your community.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Enhanced Family Leave - For Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption.

About EvaluAgent

We’re on a mission to power a people-first era for contact centres – one where Employee Experience (EX) is prioritised alongside Customer Experience (CX). We're continuing to take our QA and Improvement platform to the next level and working to be a market-leading Workforce Engagement Platform for fast growth sales and service teams around the globe.

ED&I at EvaluAgent

We are committed to employing the best people with the right experience and qualifications for the role. We provide equal opportunities for all our candidates and employees and do not discriminate on any factors such as gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief, or disability. When applying, please let us know of any accessibility requirements you may have for your interviews and we will do our best to accommodate.

Application Closing Date

This role operates on a rolling interview process, meaning we will be conducting interviews until we extend an offer. As a result, candidates may progress through the interview stages at varying paces.

Ready to collaborate, innovate, and grow with us? Apply NOW! 🚀