Automation QA Engineer

Middlesbrough – Hybrid

Do you want to help shape software that affects thousands of lives? We are ranked as the UK's #1 construction specific software player and our mission is simple; to provide market leading end-to-end software solutions to the construction and construction like industries across the entire build life cycle. Our teams are based in the UK, Europe, and India, working on products that are used on a global scale. We have a clear and defined road map to deliver over the next 3 years, which is centred around a large-scale digital transformation as well as continuing our growth and expansion. We embrace diversity and equality and want our employees to be comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. Creating a culture of Equality isn’t just the right thing to do, it improves every aspect of our business.

Purpose

Our technology is used by thousands of companies and affects millions of lives. You will be responsible for the quality of software development and deployment. You will be involved in performing and/or creating automated and manual tests to ensure the software created by developers is fit for purpose. Some of the duties include analysis of software and systems, mitigating risk and preventing software issues. The QA Engineer will report to the Engineering Lead.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Software Testing
• Technical Innovation

Key Responsibilities

• Test technical solutions including complex components, ensuring that quality standards are achieved.
• Collaborate closely with other team members and departments.
• Execute all levels of testing (System, Integration, and Regression).
• Analysing user stories and/or use cases/requirements for validity and feasibility.
• Help teammates overcome obstacles, resolve blockers, and complete work tasks.
• Detect and track software defects and inconsistencies.
• Provide timely execution of tests.
• Apply quality engineering principles throughout the Agile product lifecycle.
• Provide support and documentation.
• Determine and agree on quality procedures, standards or specifications and ensure that they are met at all times.
• Estimate effort required to accomplish requirements and ensure that schedules are met.
• Ensure that technical product is tested accurately, based on best practice standards, and on time and support the business objectives.
• Make suggestions to improve and support the testing lifecycle.
• Take responsibility for your personal development, ensuring that knowledge and skills are up to date and maintained, including emerging trends that may be relevant to solutions being developed.
• Continuously strive for innovative solutions and make suggestions for improvements that will provide a benefit to the business in terms of improved efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity.
• Be willing to listen to and support colleagues, devoting time to sharing knowledge, infusing confidence, and expressing positive expectations.
• Ensures all code is reviewed before changes are checked into master.

Key Skills, Experience & Qualifications

• Tenacious, energised and motivated with a high level of commitment and passion towards achieving quality excellence.
• Willingness to support other team members to support team goals.
• Solution‑oriented with a positive, can‑do attitude and an ability to work under pressure.
• Excellent oral, presentation and written communication skills.
• Confident and able to work alongside strong personalities within the business.
• Strong technical, analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Can accurately debug & refactor code within the automated framework.
• Able to produce high‑quality test plans, documentation and reports as required.
• Understand how to push and pull source code into the appropriate repo such as Git or Bitbucket.
• Proficient at identifying and communicating bugs and can document replication steps.
• Execute RESTful API testing using tools such as Postman and SoapUI.
• Can describe load, soak, stress, and system testing.
• Experience in data analysis.
• Experience with Agile (Kanban) methodologies.
• Previous experience with automated testing tools, for example, Sikuli, TestComplete, Java, C#, Selenium or Python.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and writing automated test scripts.
• Experience working in a manual testing role in a software environment, developing and executing tests to validate system functionality against specifications.
• Understanding of the top 10 OWASP software vulnerabilities and how to exploit them.
• Good knowledge of quality standards, legislation, and best practice.
• Knows tools such as Azure and SonarCloud to accurately report test coverage.
• Understanding of automation test frameworks and building this into a CI/CD pipeline.
• Awareness of TDD (Test Driven Development) and Behaviour‑driven development.

What you get from us

Our team is everything, so we’ll take good care of you. In fact, we give well‑being the same priority as our other business goals. We’re strong advocates of work‑life balance, offering hybrid working alongside the opportunity to work from modern, collaborative offices.

Our Values

• United. As part of a team, we’re better together.
• Agile. Be the change, we’re on a journey.
• Trusted. Do the right thing, we own this.
• Driven. Get stuck in, we make it happen.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave + public holidays, increasing with length of service.
• 4% matched pension.
• Income protection and life assurance.
• Access to our award‑winning benefits platform.
• We take mental health seriously and have a dedicated EAP available 24/7.
• £100 allowance towards a fitness club.
• Dell discounts.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Paid study leave + volunteering days.
• Car Scheme.

Like all responsible companies Causeway is aware of the need to recognise the importance of protecting our environment and addressing the climate emergency. Causeway is a carbon neutral company and we offset our calculated carbon footprint. However, we recognise that offsetting is not a permanent solution, so we set environmental objectives to reduce our footprint year‑on‑year.