QA Specialist, Xiatech
System integration & data insights platform
Job no longer available
System integration & data insights platform
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To reduce the complexity, cost, and delays of business transformation.
Role
Who you are
- 2 years of experience in a QA/Testing role
- Worked as part of a cross-functional team using agile/lean methodologies and practices
- Comfortable writing test plans and maintaining test suites
- Experience with a variety of different manual testing techniques such as API, regression, and commission testing
- Experience testing data-centric/API solutions without front ends and within cloud infrastructures (GCP/AWS)
- An interest or prior experience implementing automated testing, including unit, integration, and e2e tests
- Experience working with multiple types of data stores to query and create test data, such as document (MongoDB), data warehouses (BigQuery), cache (Redis), relational databases, and object stores such as s3
- An interest or prior experience coding using a modern language such as Golang, JS, or Python and an interest in developing this further
- Experience testing Docker/K8s and serverless applications would be advantageous
- Good communication, written and verbal
- Data-driven and analytical
- Innovative
- Driven
- Resilient
- Insightful
- Empathetic
- Analytical
- Self-Starter
- Problem solver
What the job involves
- Our QA Specialists work directly with their agile software delivery team and are responsible for the development and upkeep of tests within the software deployment pipeline
- Working as part of the agile delivery team, you are responsible for capturing testing requirements, and acceptance criteria, running the testing, and reporting results
- The role is primarily working with our data platform, heavy backend, and minimal frontend, therefore testing will be focused on data flows, API, and integration points rather than user interfaces
- QA is a relatively new role to Xiatech and one we really value. It is an opportunity to lead the way and have a voice about what you think will really help us to move forward. This will be an ideal role for someone who either has prior automation experience or is looking to develop in this area over time
- QA within the teams:
- Working alongside engineers to ensure we achieve incremental delivery of working software to our clients to a high quality
- Creating and executing test plans using a range of manual and automated testing techniques, including performance testing
- Working with the Product Owner and engineers to define acceptance criteria and refine functional, as well as non-functional requirements
- Identifying, defining, and capturing testing requirements for the stories and epics within your team’s backlog
- Setting up and managing test data
- Participating in daily scrums, sprint reviews, and other agile events to ensure understanding, collaboration, and clarity on direction
- Clearly and regularly reporting progress and quality metrics, along with any delays or quality issues
- Wider business:
- Championing quality within the organisation and promoting it as being a responsibility of the whole team, not just QA Specialists
- Keeping current with industry best practices and relevant technologies
- Suggest improvements in order to continuously improve our ways of working and practices both within your delivery and wider engineering team
- Client interactions:
- Building and maintaining a client relationship along with your delivery team supported by the Product Owner and Delivery Lead
- During UAT you may have daily contact with our external clients so you will need to be able to understand their requirements and business processes to help them with their testing
- Be willing to understand the Client’s 3rd party systems and where appropriate work alongside their testers for SIT
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Founded in 2003 as Xiatech Consulting, originally focusing on a broader range of professional services, Xiatech underwent a significant transformation in 2013. This shift towards a data-driven approach to business transformation marked a turning point for the company.
In response to the rapidly growing demand for data-centric solutions among enterprises, Xiatech has successfully positioned itself to meet this need. The company now offers a suite of services on its Xfuse platform, including system integration, process automation, data management, and advanced analytics. Notably, Xiatech boasts an impressive roster of clients, including industry giants such as Amazon, Unilever, KFC, Ladbrokes, and Christie's.
With the current market demand reaching unprecedented levels and Xiatech having firmly established its reputation over the past decade, the company is poised for an ambitious growth phase, supported by venture capital funding.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Employee Referral scheme
- Electric Vehicle Scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Perks Platform
- Training courses
- Access to a financial advisor
- Competitive annual leave allowance
- Contributory pension
- Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme
- Give As You Earn (GAYE)
- Workplace Nursery Scheme
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Leadership
Jonathan Summerfield
(CEO)Previously the CTO at Ladbrokes, leading the global transformation strategy and omnichannel workstreams. Prior to this, they drove the Strategy and Architecture teams at Tesco & Tesco.com, and was CTO at SiegelGale.
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