Quality Assurance Engineer

About This Job

Join Cadet Digital Service as our Quality Assurance Engineer and play a pivotal role in ensuring the UK’s Cadet Forces MIS and associated web apps are maintained to an exceptional standard. We are looking for a dedicated and detail-oriented Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer to join our Agile Delivery team. If you are passionate about ensuring the highest quality implementation and delivery of web applications and have a proven track record in both manual and automated testing, we’d love to hear from you!

Essential Skills

·       Proven experience in manual testing of web applications.

·       Solid understanding of SDLC, Agile, and SCRUM methodologies.

·       Good general education with evidence of continuing personal and professional development

·       Experience with test management and bug tracking tools. (e.g. Azure DevOps or JIRA).

·       Strong ability to analyse testing outcomes, identify root causes of issues, and work collaboratively to find effective solutions.

·       Excellent verbal and written communication skills to convey testing results, issues, and recommendations

Willingness to learn new tools, adapt to changing technologies, and continuously improve testing methods.

Our charity

ACCT UK is a national youth charity dedicated to improving the life chances of young people. The Combined Cadet Force Association (CCFA) is a charity dedicated to the promotion of the ideals and activities of the Combined Cadet Force in schools. Together we want to ensure that every young person has the opportunity to learn new skills, build confidence and be inspired through their cadet experience.

We want to develop the youth leadership and training abilities of adult volunteers whilst also helping young people to access cadet activities through fundraising, grant-making, developing new resources and direct support.

We strongly believe that everyone benefits when you help young people to develop their character and values through activities that stretch and mature them. We also know that when young people engage with others at a range of levels in their communities it builds confidence and improves empathy for other’s lives.

Who we are

You will enjoy being part of our small team who work very happily together. By joining ACCT UK you will help us to reach more young people and make a greater difference and we look forward to working with you. We actively promote and encourage you to explore ideas that improve all aspects of the charity’s work in pursuit of its charitable aims.

What we can offer you

In addition to your salary, we offer all staff:

·       Flexible working arrangements (you agree a working pattern with your line manager).

·       The ability to work both from home and from our Aldershot office.

·       Personal Accident Insurance, including loss of earnings cover and death benefit.

·       15 days of sick pay in any 12-month period (after 12 months employment - pro-rata for part time staff).

·       A contributory pension scheme (you contribute at least 5% and we will contribute 10%).

·       Good leave allowances (which are offered pro-rata for part time staff):

o   20 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays.

o   Additional privilege leave, on set days each year, such as between Christmas and New Year.

o   An additional five days of volunteering leave.

·       Support for qualifications and personal development.

·       Employee Assistance Programme.

·       Season ticket loan.

·       Railcard (if you are eligible)

·       A caring and supportive team environment.

How to apply

Please send a covering letter that details how you meet the requirements of the job description along with a CV by 23:59 hrs on Sunday 5th January 2025.

Interviews will be held (virtually) during the week commencing Monday 13th January 2025.

Please note that as a charity dedicated to improving the lives of young people, we require staff to make a declaration about any relevant convictions, undergo both a Disclosure and Barring Service check and a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check (one of the requirements being that applicants must have been resident in the UK for 3 years). In addition, we will follow up references.