Junior Quality Assurance Engineer

About BeyondTrust

BeyondTrust is the worldwide leader in intelligent identity and access security, empowering organizations to protect identities, stop threats, and deliver dynamic access to empower and secure a work-from-anywhere world. Our integrated products and platform offer the industry's most advanced privileged access management (PAM) solution, enabling organizations to quickly shrink their attack surface across traditional, cloud and hybrid environments. 
Learn more at www.beyondtrust.com. 

Job Summary

We’re looking for a Junior QA Engineer to join our Agile Development Team in Manchester and progress their QA career with a focus on quality and continual innovation of our cyber security software suite. This is a highly collaborative role, you’ll be creating test charters, test cases, executing test plans and sharing findings for specific BeyondTrust product releases. If you’re a creative problem solver with a passion for investigating, uncovering, and resolving software issues this could be just the opportunity for you!

What will I be doing?

• Collaborating with your Agile team to guarantee software delivered by each sprint and each integration test meets both functional and non-functional requirements
• Creating and executing test charters, test scripts, recording outcome of tests, reporting defects, and identifying opportunities for product improvement
• Undertaking exploratory testing to meet the test plan
• Create and maintain test environments; setting up the software being tested and configuring test data.
• Partnering with Software Engineers, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure user stories have acceptance criteria defined, from which test cases will be derived
• Contributing to automation testing
• Analysing and resolving customer support issues escalated to the engineering team
• Reporting on work status, reporting risks and issues as they arise
• Achieving productivity targets, delivering tasks to schedule, and timely communicating any delays
• Contributing to the production of required documentation and training materials for the product(s) developed by your team

What skills should I have?

• 1+ years commercial software testing experience
• Experience in testing in a collaborative agile environment
• Technical testing skills and the ability to test below the GUI of applications
• The ability to step through developer demo’s on Developer PCs, with confidence to step through unit tests with developers.
• A passion for continual learning
• A collaborative, team-centric approach

Nice to have experience:

• Experience of creating SQL queries to interrogate/update a database
• Understanding and experience of XML and using XML tools
• Professional software testing qualification e.g, ISTQB
• Experience in Test Automation using Cypress
• Degree or equivalent in a business or IT related discipline

What about the Perks?

• 25 days’ holiday which increases with length of service
• Competitive pension scheme
• Vitality Private Healthcare for you and family
• Medicash Benefit (including Dental cover)
• Life Insurance (4x annual salary)
• Income Protection if you are unable to work due to ill health
• Paid parental leave
• Sabbatical leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Co-investing opportunity

Why BeyondTrust?

A healthy and motivated workforce goes hand-in-hand with the success of the company and the happiness of our customers. So why wouldn’t we give you the flexibility, perks and career confidence that you need to get the job done?

As a member of the BT Team we trust and empower you to be the best version of yourself whether that means working in your favourite superhero costume from home or solving complex problems whilst feeding the kids porridge!

We want you to feel at home in the BT family. That means diversity and inclusion isn’t just a policy to us. We recognise amazing talent doesn’t come in “one size fits all”.

Our team collaboration extends from Singapore to Nova Scotia and everywhere in between with inspiring women in leadership roles everywhere you look.

We also want to give you the opportunity to constantly evolve (shout out to the Pokémon fans). If you want to learn a new skill or improve the way the team works, your voice will be heard. Hackathons, Pluralsight licenses, lunch & learns and self-improvement workshops are always there for you to get involved in.

Progression routes are clear for those who want it, so don’t expect to be in the same position 2 years from now.

What are you waiting for? Apply now! 

Don’t meet every single qualification? Studies show people are hesitant to apply if they don’t meet all requirements listed in a job posting. BeyondTrust is focused on building an inclusive and diverse workplace – so if there is something slightly different about your previous experience, but it otherwise aligns and you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply. You could be a great candidate for this or other roles on our team.

What truly makes BeyondTrust special are the people – people who keep the culture strong and make working here exciting, rewarding, and ultimately fun!

Search @beyondtrust and #beyondtrustlife on Twitter and LinkedIn to find out more.