QA Automation Engineer, Purple
£30-38k
+ Company bonus - 5% of salary
Indoor location services platform
Job no longer available
Indoor location services platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
£30-38k
+ Company bonus - 5% of salary
101-200 employees
Company mission
Purple is on a mission to make sure physical spaces thrive.
Role
Who you are
- Good experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process as QA engineer
- Good experience working on test automation on both desktop, mobile applications and API testing
- Attention to detail with excellent written, verbal and organisational skills
- Strong confidence and the ability to take initiative
- Proven experience in software and systems quality assurance
- Proven experience in Cross-Browser and Cross-Platform Testing including mobile and desktop browsers and mobile apps
- Proven knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
- Proven experience in designing, developing and executing test cases and automation scripts using BDD and Gherkin
- Proven experience with planning and executing Integration, Functional, End to End, Acceptance, Exploratory, Smoke and Regression Testing
- Experience in creating Automation frameworks from scratch for browser, mobile application and API testing, using automation frameworks such as Selenium, Apium
- Proven experience with JIRA for bug tracking and agile project management
What the job involves
- We’re looking to recruit an experienced Mid-level QA Automation Engineer to join our Product and Engineering team
- You’ll report to the Lead QA and be responsible for our Real Time Location Services (RTLS) solution, working closely with our Developers, Product Managers and UX Designers to help shape our indoor location web and mobile products, whilst getting hands on with automation testing with Selenium and Appium to automate our use case scenarios both on desktop and mobile (iOS and Android)
- You'll be part of a sprint team and be responsible for sprint related testing, creating detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases to verify and validate the acceptance criteria features being deployed
- Also as part of the sprint team you will be involved in reviewing requirements, specifications and technical design documents with the UX and product team and provide timely and meaningful feedback, and help to craft acceptance criteria
- As part of the team you’ll join in on sprint agile ceremonies; estimating and prioritising tests, planning and coordinating testing activities
- Outside of sprint work you will be leading on building the QA automation suite for the RTLS projects on our platforms, desktop and mobile
- Creating a test framework from scratch using tools such as Portman Selenium and Appium using languages such as Java and JS
- Integrating the automation suite into the CI/CD pipeline using tools such as Jenkins and Bitbucket
- Identify, record, document thoroughly, track and manage defects/bugs
- Apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs
- Carry out regular sanity checks for deploys across the various environments
- Data validations by executing SQL queries against our databases
- Continuously learning and staying up-to-date with new and existing testing tools, test strategies and test processes
- This role involves both hands-on manual and automated testing, collaborating within multi-disciplinary teams to deliver high-quality mobile solutions, following Agile ways of working, with an unwavering focus on quality, user experience, security, data protection and scalability
- You'll have the opportunity to work on exciting and challenging projects, often with cutting edge technology; mentor other QAs on mobile and automated testing; and contribute to the growth and success of our company
Our take
As multi-store businesses look to digitise their brick-and-mortar operations, they can run into difficulties providing wayfinding services to customers, or managing dispersed real-world assets. Purple AI helps these businesses to improve store connectivity, with location services such as in-store customer WiFi provision, wayfinding and asset tracking solutions.
Of particular note, Purple has worked with a number of hospitals to meet the complex connectivity and asset management needs of employees and patients. Boasting the ability to provide wayfinding solutions for these facilities - in which patients and visitors navigate multiple floors to reach the right ward - showcases the utility of Purple's suite.
Alongside its wide net of hospital clients, Purple provides WiFi solutions for the likes of McDonald’s, Pizza Express, and the Hard Rock Cafe - a lofty client list in terms of brand popularity. As location services become more important across the board, the company will likely have the chance to build on this established presence even further.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2023
$14.3m
LATE VC
Jun 2017
$0.4m
GRANT
Total funding: $22.7m
Company benefits
- Remote first business - work from home (with regular opportunities to get together face to face)
- Flexible working & a great company culture - bring your best self to work
- Emphasis on learning and development - progress your career
- 23 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with 1 more day each year - and the option to buy extra days
- 4 volunteering days each year - give something back to the community
- Company bonus - 5% of salary
- Private Healthcare & Long Term Incentive Plan after 12 months’ service
Company HQ
Manchester, UK
Leadership
Gavin Whedon
(CEO)Currently Non-Executive Director at Syrenis. Previously Founder and CEO at Applied Language Solutions, and Strategic Accounts Director at thebigword.
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