QA Engineer at Flowbird UK

About Flowbird:

At Flowbird, you'll have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects in a culture that celebrates creativity, collaboration, and innovation. We offer competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, and professional growth opportunities in a supportive and dynamic work environment. 

Flowbird delivers solutions for smart cities on the move. Active in 60 countries and our Smart Transport solutions can be seen in world-class cities including London, Edinburgh, Paris, New York, Sydney, Rome, Brussels and Toronto. Our systems and equipment already facilitate management and mobility processes in more than 5,000 cities and more than 1,300 employees and 90 jobs make up the group's skills.  

Our market leadership is underpinned by a continuous drive to innovate and push the frontiers of what is possible in order to make our customers more successful. As a result, we are a thriving business that is investing strongly and building the team for both new opportunities and supporting existing ones.  

Location:  

Our UK headquarters is based in Poole on the Dorset coast with its bustling quay, some of the best beaches in the UK and a stunning natural harbour. There is easy access to the Dorset countryside, the New Forest and the spectacular Jurassic Coast. Our main office is 1 mile from Poole railway station with good public transport links and close to both Bournemouth and Southampton international airports. 

We support a hybrid working model where we work come together in the office at least 3 times a week as we highly value the interactions and opportunities for collaboration this provides.

Role: 

As a QA engineer you will be focused on defining, executing and reporting on QA testing in support of developing new product features and/or delivering bug fixes which underpin software maintenance releases.

This role will involve working within a software development team on device application software and collaborating with key stakeholders to deliver on software commitments.

Responsibilities:

• Perform both manual and automated QA testing of software deliveries in support of software delivery commitments;
• Develop QA test documentation (scripts/plan)  to support the development and delivery of new software features and bug fix maintenance releases;
• Able to  evolve QA processes and tooling to ensure software quality is continually improved;
• Ensure a customer centric approach is taken into account when delivering software to internal and external customers;
• Ensure quantifiable best practices are employed in all aspects of QA ways of working;
• Ensure software quality KPIs are maintained to underpin the delivery of high quality software;
• Work as part of a agile delivery team, attending and contributing to all agile ceremonies;
• Participate in software story huddles and development demos;
• Support the refinement of specifications and requirements into software development backlogs.

Essential Experience:

• 2+ years Experience using Automation tools e.g. Robot Framework
• 2+ years Experience in writing Automation tests e.g. Gherkin or Python  
• 2+ years Experience in designing test scripts
• Experience of development/application of automated tests (TDD or BDD);
• Source control tools and platforms such as git and Bitbucket;
• Agile experience including Scrum, Kanban, agile mindset. 

Desired Experience:

• Experience using JIRA/Confluence 
• Experience of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Artifactory
• Experience within an embedded software development environment
• Utilisation of code coverage tools such as SonarCube
• Experience in introducing new processes and tooling
• Experience using Groovy for pipeline scripts for Jenkins

Company Benefits:

• 25 days holiday, plus Bank holidays, with the option to purchase up to 10 days per annum
• Up to 6% contributory Company pension scheme
• Life assurance of x4 annual salary
• Health Cash Plan
• Discounted gym membership with a company subsidy
• Six months Company sick pay
• Employee discounts
• Employee assistance programme available 24/7
• Flexible Benefits platform giving you the option to purchase additional benefits including critical illness cover, additional life assurance, dental insurance, health screening, cycle to work scheme, personal car leasing, breakdown cover, purchase of technology.
• Paid Employee Volunteering days
• Hybrid working
• Additional Maternity / Paternity leave
• Free onsite car parking
• Part time roles will be considered

Reports to:

Software Delivery Lead