Junior QA Engineer

Made by Many

Location London
Salary £25,000–£30,000
  • Closing: 11:55pm, 31st Aug 2018 BST

Job Description

Made by Many is a digital innovation consultancy focused on bringing digital to the core of our clients’ businesses. We deliver agile product development and organisational change through the collaboration of design, technology, business and product strategy.

At Made by Many, we believe that quality is critical to the success of the products and services we create. To ensure that we are producing high-quality work, we incorporate quality assurance (QA) as an integral part of our development process, and regard QA as having as much of a stake in a project as the designers and strategists conceiving it.

The role

We are looking for someone who is early in their QA career or wanting to take their first steps in one. We believe in learning through doing — this is a fantastic opportunity to start your journey into the world of digital product development. In this position you’ll get the opportunity to influence the product development process from start to finish, and you’ll play an important role in ensuring that the user experience is at the core of it.

While no prior experience in testing is required, attention to detail, clear reasoning skills and an ability to empathise with users will be essential for the role. Patience, persistence and an interest in how things work will be important as well.

You will work closely with and learn from our Lead QA, and you will be working with designers and developers to create new digital experiences, from web sites to mobile apps. Your job is to help make sure that everything works as intended, and you’ll also act as an advocate for the user, casting ever-fresh eyes on the work to ensure that it all makes sense.

A significant aspect of the role will be to perform exploratory testing. Exploratory tests — unlike scripted tests — are not defined in advance or carried out according to a fixed plan. It serves as a complement to automated testing in helping to establish greater confidence in the software by ensuring more defects are found early in development.

We make use of exploratory testing to take a more human, hands-on approach that allows us to ensure the overall quality of the product. The QA team vigorously tests systems using real or virtualised devices and browsers. The goal is to allow for more freeform behaviour and to think more like a user, to better uncover bugs and usability issues.

You can read more about Made by Many’s holistic approach to quality assurance: How to survive as a lone QA engineer and Misconceptions of the lone QA.

Key responsibilities

  • Testing that features and functionality work as expected

  • Prioritising daily workload according to pre-defined criteria

  • Reporting issues in the agreed format

  • Working closely with the teams (QA lead, developers, product managers and designers) to ensure requirements are understood and critical issues are flagged at an early stage

Who should apply

You are technically curious about the way digital products work and have an interest in learning/exploring the art of QA and understanding user behaviours. You believe that people come first and technology second.

We are also looking for an ability to:

  • Take a methodical and logical approach to work

  • Use own initiative to investigate issues

  • Put yourself into the shoes of the user

  • Work independently and as part of a team

  • Clearly explain and detail the results of testing

  • Adapt and learn new skills and technologies

Salary and benefits

The salary for this position is £25,000–£30,000 depending on experience. This will be reviewed annually.

Benefits

  • 25 days a year holidays (not including bank holidays). We close the office at Christmas, so you’ll get these days as extra too.

  • Private healthcare

  • Generous maternity and paternity leave (Maternity: 10 weeks at full pay followed by 9 weeks at 60% and then standard SMP; Paternity: 4 weeks at full pay)

  • Your choice of company mobile phone

  • Mac laptop with admin rights and any other tech you need to do your job

  • Investment in personal development — this could be attending courses, buying books or going to conferences — whatever suits you

  • Regular company lunches, drinks, supper clubs and away day, as well as our summer party in the office and Christmas beach party

  • Beautiful office next to Regent’s Canal, near to lots of shops/cafes/bars in Angel

  • Kitchen and fridge stocked with delicious healthy (and unhealthy) snacks and drinks - including breakfast selection

  • Weekly lunchtime yoga sessions and evening football sessions

  • Monthly tech meetup hosted at our office (http://www.frontendlondon.co.uk/)

Location and hours

  • The role is based at our office (Diespeker Wharf, 38 Graham St, London, N1 8JX) and is not open to remote working

  • Hours are 9am–6pm, Monday–Friday. Due to the demands of client projects, this role is not open to part time working or job sharing.

The recruitment process

We're using Applied to improve our recruitment process. We review your answers alongside other candidates’ without seeing any personal information about you, which helps us remove unconscious bias from our recruitment process.

Applicants who score highly on Applied will be invited to a short phone interview which we will use to get to know a bit more about you and to give you a chance to ask any questions you have. Successful candidates will then be invited to an interview at our office and meet more of the team.

We offer applicants with disabilities the option of proceeding straight to the phone interview stage. If this applies to you, please email us your CV at jamie@madebymany.co.uk.

Removing bias from the hiring process

Applications closed Fri 31st Aug 2018

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Removing bias from the hiring process

  • Your application will be anonymously reviewed by our hiring team to ensure fairness
  • You’ll need a CV/résumé, but it’ll only be considered if you score well on the anonymous review

Applications closed Fri 31st Aug 2018