Are you ready for the challenge?
What are we all about?

At Access we love software and how technology never stays the same. It's this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from professional services to manufacturing to not for profits and more.

We're passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business. That's why over 1 million users and overorganisations rely on Access software to help their organisation thrive.
About you:

You are a dynamic, skilled Senior QA Engineer with a passion for technology and automation and a keen sense of pride in the work you do.
You are collaborative, pragmatic, positive, competitive, assertive, commercially aware and driven to continuous learning/improvement.
You demonstrate great communication skills and are able to communicate with, and advise stakeholders in various departments at various levels, making recommendations based on risk, commercial factors, Quality approach and strategic objectives.
You show a great understanding of best practice, including: Why QA is necessary, objectives, cost of defects, principles of testing, software development models, testing levels & types.
You are a technical person with knowledge of automation frameworks, performance, load and security testing.
You are able to report risks and observations and identify areas where further testing may be required.
About the role:

As a Senior QA Engineer within our Health, Support and Care division, you will work in an agile scrum team of 6 to 8 members on our Medication Management project.

Key focuses include:

Design, develop and write automation scripts for our software applications.
Championing a Quality-first approach within the team; building great relationships with developers, BAs, and Support; and actively contributing and participating in QA initiatives within the division.
Day-to-day, you will:

Design and develop testing to meet agreed acceptance criteria and stories using a range of techniques and technologies. Ensure QA standards are established, known, coached and followed within agile team.
Write, develop and maintain automated Test Scripts and frameworks to enable maximum coverage, quality and scalability across products.
Proactively develop QA processes and improvements for your projects within a fast moving, agile environment.
Manage effective test ware control, ensuring test packs are maintained, kept relevant and (where appropriate) version controlled.
Understand and actively encourage automation design principles, best practices, coverage and strategy.
Participate in defect identification, replication and communication including risks and required resolutions. Report and track root cause trends.
Own Quality centred activities including: static reviews, collaboration with Development and Product, planning, early discovery of defects, exploratory testing techniques, optimal running of regression periods and pro-active risk management.
As a well-rounded QA Engineer, your skills likely include:
Understanding of Test Design techniques for optimal coverage, including: requirements coverage, end to end testing, boundary value analysis, equivalence partitioning, exploratory testing, User Paths and scenarios, data-driven testing.
Experience of creating automation packs.
Experience of E2E UI web automation using native Selenium WebDriver
Experience of working with SaaS or Web-based products.
Excellent communication skills.
Good understanding of Risk and how to identify and assess it, including Risk-based Testing
Experience of assisting in the development of test processes and improvements
Desirable:

ISTQB/ISEB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing
Experience with testing and automation at API layer
Non-functional testing (performance/load/volume preferably)
Experience of Data driven testing
Experience of using JIRA
What does Access offer you?

We are a growing software company and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously! We will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference.

Working full remote
Competitive salary
Great Holiday Package (starting from 25)
Private Healthcare & Life Insurance
7 Card Sport Allowance
Referral Bonus
Christmas Bonus
At Access we’re all about helping everyone Love Work and Love Life. Why? Because we believe people can only be their best when they can be themselves. So, if you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t match perfectly, we’d still love to hear from you. You might just be who we are looking for.

We love the fact that we’re all different. We believe by having more diverse perspectives at work improves how we run our business, helps us to better support our customers, and when you think about it, it’s just more fun!

What’s holding you back? Come and be part of our Amazing Access Family!

Love Work. Love Life. Be You.