The position: Software QA Engineer
Life at Elvie; Meaningful work. Exceptional people
We're Elvie. We create smart products, new solutions, and a fair few taboo-busting conversations while we’re at it. Founded by Tania Boler in 2013, we develop extraordinary innovations designed to improve women’s lives. It's a fascinating and challenging area that requires us to solve problems that no one else has ever tackled before.
At Elvie, you’ll be surrounded by people who want to improve everything and everyone around them. People who are passionate about our mission. People who are driven to solve problems and constantly consider the best ways to improve the health and wellbeing of women.
Find out more about life at Elvie here.
We're deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive:
- We make an impact: We’re mission-driven and not afraid to break boundaries. We relentlessly focus on going the extra mile to solve problems.
- We’re fearless innovators: We are passionate, curious, and data-driven. We continuously embrace change and innovation.
- We’re in it together: we fail and learn fast — always as one team — and have fun along the way. We stay authentic and embrace our differences.
Did you know?
In some regions our amazing products are considered to be medical devices. This means we maintain our Medical Device quality management system in compliance with ISO 13485:2016, to support the development of our groundbreaking products
About the role
As a Software QA Engineer you will be working within an agile Software Engineering team and will be supporting the delivery of quality software, primarily focused on mobile applications. You will be responsible for driving processes and strategies in the team and working closely with Software Engineers and Product Managers.
What you’ll be doing at Elvie:
- Collaborate with engineers, product and delivery managers, and designers to solve interesting and challenging problems for delivering scalable technology worldwide
- Liaise with internal teams to identify and clarify requirements and acceptance criteria to ensure they are met, raising relevant questions and deficiencies as early as possible.
- Create and maintain detailed and comprehensive test plans and test cases
- Develop and implement automated testing strategies for mobile applications to ensure robust and consistent software quality across diverse environments.
- Identify, document and track software defects and inconsistencies, providing detailed reports to the development team for resolution.
- Be a valued member of an autonomous, multidisciplinary agile team
- Explore and evaluate features right through the development process, from design to delivery (and beyond)
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate automated testing into the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.
- Ability to understand and identify right test approaches for the area e.g. exploratory, automated, scripted etc.
What we are looking for:
- You have at least 3 years previous experience in a testing role
- Proven experience in software quality assurance, with a focus on app automation.
- You have strong experience testing APIs and related tools, such as Postman
- You have experience of databases, such as MySQL
- Familiar with exploratory testing techniques
- A self-starter with an eagerness to learn new tools and skills
- You have experience with automated API testing
- You possess clear and concise communication skills
- You have experience in working in an agile team
- You have an awareness and understanding of technical testing and best practises
- You are able to prepare test scenarios, test plans and execute test scripts
- A champion of automation with experience in establishing good testing practises in a CI/CD workflow
- Familiar with Git commands and related tooling
- Familiar with accessibility guidelines (WCAG) and test approaches
Other desirable qualities:
- Familiarity with testing frameworks such as Appium, Selenium, or similar tools.
- Commercial experience of functional and non-functional testing of both APIs and web-based applications
- Commercial experience of testing within an agile, continuous delivery-focused environment
- A detailed understanding of BDD and TDD approaches to testing and quality assurance
- Experience of maintaining an internal regression testing process to ensure quality of business functionality is preferred
- Experience working with application engineers to help them test functionality during the initial development process is preferred
- Experience of working with modern CI/CD and engineering tooling like CircleCI, GitHub Actions
- Must be attentive to detail, flexible and able to work concurrently on multiple projects
- Ability to troubleshoot, research, and work through complex problems
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Any experience of connected product testing is a bonus
If you have an eye for details, know how to ensure the best quality and are a great teammate, this will make you a phenomenal match for this role! As our ideal candidate, you thrive in complexity and are able to navigate in a growing organisation.
