Senior QA Consultant
About the role and what you'll be doing
As a Senior Consultant at Amido we will expect you to be playing a technical leadership role.
You will spend most of your time leading the Test aspects of an agile delivery team (most likely at a clients’ offices) on an exciting project helping that client to realise the business benefit of an investment into the cloud. Our projects vary a huge amount from client to client, so you’ll never get bored.
You will be initiative in your approach to testing and problem solving and have the technical ability to lead any project from a testing prospective regardless of the project tech stack.
You will work closely with senior technical people from the client, Amido Business Analysts and Developers with the support of your colleagues outside of the project, as well as playing a leadership position coaching and mentoring members of the project team.
Amido has a rich and varied set of communities (on a wide variety of topics from security to mental health) as well as your core competency that you’ll be encouraged to contribute to, and learn from, where projects and client commitments allow.
You will be a self-starter, and proactive in your project work and your career, continuously looking for ways to add value to your community and Amido.
What you’ll bring to Amido
- A passionate desire to learn technology and practices within test
- Experience delivering production software using an Agile methodology
- Ability to work with teams to improve their test approach
- Excellent exploratory testing skills
- Ability to collaborate effectively with other software development disciplines
- Deal well with ambiguity
- Experience with good development practices (repository management tools (git), versioning, clean code, package management)
- Experience with continuous delivery practices (branch management, pull requests, code reviews, running tests in CI/CD
- Confident creating automation frameworks in multiple modern languages (.Net, Java, Javascript, Python), writing tests for web applications and RESTful Api services in code
- Understanding of performance, security, accessibility and reliability testing
- Great attention to detail
- Great communication skills in particular: presenting, collaborating and pairing with stakeholders
- Passion to share knowledge and foster a ‘test first’ mindset in your project team and within the organisation
- Challenge us all at Amido to continuously improve our testing practices
- Understanding that there are many ways we can test, and not one method fits all projects
- Experience in a consulting business or client facing role
- Successfully navigating through complex stakeholder relationships
- Creating a collaborative team environment where everyone’s opinion is heard, but knows when to be assertive, back down or escalate
- Comfortable owning meetings
What we offer you
- We will give you a place to strive and grow.
- You will have the opportunity to work on some super interesting, yet challenging projects with a highly-skilled team already in place.
- We will give you autonomy over your work, and the opportunity to have a voice to help shape the projects you’re working on.
- Our guiding values are reflected in everything we do here and we’re looking for likeminded people to join us and add to this already fantastic culture.
- We are a people-first business and we put people at the heart of everything we do here.
- Expect an annual training budget of £2k, balanced working practises, and lots of socials.
Benefits Package
- We offer 27 days annual leave to employees, rising by 1 day each year up to 30 days, plus bank holidays
- Fully comprehensive private medical and life insurance to give you peace of mind
- We offer group income protection in the event of being unable to work, due to illness or injury
- You’ll receive a £2K annual training budget to help with your career development
- We offer a flexible working policy to ensure a good work life balance
- Employees receive a generous company contribution of 6% and 1:1 financial planning advice
- We offer a discounted monthly subscription which can be used at multiple gyms throughout the UK
- Employees can apply for an interest-free bike loan through Cyclescheme
- We offer a travel to work loan, where repayments are deducted monthly post-tax
- We facilitate an optional payroll giving benefit to the registered UK charity of your choice
Apply for this role
If you haven't had a response within two weeks, please assume that we won't be taking your application to the next stage on this occasion. We list all our roles on the Careers page so do keep checking the page in the coming months to see if anything else opens up.
