Junior QA Engineer at Reach

Job Description:

Role Responsibility

You will be part of a team embedded in a much larger media organisation. We are organised around small and nimble product teams that have close contact with both the editorial and commercial sides.

We strongly believe in team ownership and self-direction, and we strive to provide an environment where the teams can perform at their best. Each team owns its own agile process and modifies its practices to better fit its needs.

You will work within a development team & wider test community to help us to implement, test & deploy new exciting news products that are used by millions of people.

The ideal candidate

What we are looking for:

• Strong analytical skills
• Collaborative and non-hierarchical style of working
• Happy to learn new technologies
• Can empathise with business requirements
• Can-do, positive attitude, proactive approach to problem-solving
• Keen to learn manual & automated test techniques
• A persistent and committed attitude to ship great products, testing features effectively, communicating, listening and iterating from there

Things we like to see in people are:

• Understand the basic Software development lifecycle
• Understand the need for manual testing
• Understand where & when automation testing fits into a SDLC
• Have hands-on programming/scripting experience

Useful Tools / Skills:

• JavaScript/Node.Js experience
• Revision Control, GIT
• Cloud Technologies
• Test Management Tools
• API Testing with various tools, scripting API tests
• Knowledge of Web technologies
• Knowledge of Rest, API technologies
• JIRA
• Google docs

Company Benefits

• Help saving for your retirement - matched contributions up to 6%
• 25 days’ holiday per year when you join. After three, five and ten years’ service with Reach, you’ll accrue one additional day of annual leave. We also have a Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Giving back day - an additional day’s leave each year to support a cause close to your heart
• Flexibility - In this role, you’ll be fully remote-working (UK based) giving you more flexibility to balance home and life. We’ll support you with your home set-up, and you’ll be able to claim expenses for any trips to our office ‘hubs’
• Enhanced family leave - including maternity, paternity and adoption - and you’ll be eligible after just six months’ employment.
• Private Healthcare Cash Plan - free health cash plan so you can claim back cash for a range of medical expenses
• As one of the UK’s top 50 Inclusive Employers everyone’s invited to join our events, programmes and networks to celebrate diversity and build an environment where all our people can thrive
• Wellbeing support - including a 24/7 assistance programme for you and your nearest and dearest, a free subscription to mindfulness app Headspace and access to free mental health coaching through Sanctus
• Awesome career opportunities - you’ll have support from your line manager and a range of learning & development programmes
• We are a FTSE 250 Company, and also a member of the 30% Club, a global campaign aimed at increasing gender diversity at board and senior management levels

Interview Process

TWO stages:

• 1st stage 30m video call over Google Hangout with hiring manager
• 2nd stage 60m video call over Google Hangout with hiring manager and three others - either a two Snr QA's OR one Snr QA and one Mid QA