Quality Assurance Engineer – Ashford Hybrid

Overview

£23,000 – 27,000 DOE

Quality Assurance Engineer

Salary £23,000 – 27,000 dependent on experience

Ashford Hybrid 

The Quality Assurance team play an integral role in our Insurance business ensuring an ever-improving experience for both our colleagues and customers.

As a QA Engineer you will be responsible for estimating, designing and executing test case scenarios to meet acceptance criteria and business needs. There will be a level of scripting, and executing automation test scripts as well as demonstrating the benefits of extended and expanded use of automated tools, allowing effective, efficient, and quality testing that delivers savings against manual testing. You will be play a lead role in all aspects of manual and automated testing within the scrum delivery teams ensuring high levels of quality and assurance.We offer total flexibility over where you work you choose a place that you feel most comfortable and productive, either from home or in one of our hubs in London, Ashford or Sandwich.         

Role Responsibility

As QA Engineer you will be responsible for contributing to world class testing and assurance capability in support of our key business systems and services.

Your accountabilities will include; 

• Constant communication with Scrum Coordinator, test, and development teams to develop a strong understanding of the changes, testing objectives, and progress. 
• Contribute to sprint planning sessions and challenge acceptance criteria specifications where appropriate. 
• Generate and maintain scripts to perform automated testing cycles that fulfil business requirements. 
• Identify known defects and include scenarios in test scripts to reduce risk of these. 
• Document, track and escalate defects in development packages as appropriate. 

The Ideal Candidate

As one of our QA Engineers, you will need to be naturally curious and passionate about driving change from a customer-centric point of view.

Having a good knowledge of HTML, and Xpaths, as well as scripting and coding, would be an advantage.

Other skills and experience required include:

• Ability to work in a methodical manner
• Ability to investigate and fix causes of script failure
• Keen attention to detail and driven by quality
• Able to multitask
• Driven by quality
• Effective communication skills and ability to develop collaborative relationships
• Ability to suggest improvements in automation techniques and find ways to improve on efficiency
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Package Description

Everyday our colleagues deliver exceptional experiences to our customers. We believe exceptional work deserves even more exceptional rewards, that’s why we have put together an amazing benefits package for all colleagues.

BENEFITS AVAILABLE TO ALL COLLEAGUES:

• Our working week is 35 hours per week, these can be worked flexibly to suit your working style
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Option to purchase additional leave up to 5 extra days
• Pension scheme matched up to 10%
• Life assurance policy on joining us
• Wellbeing programme
• Colleague discounts including family discounts on cruises and holidays
• Range of reductions and offers from leading retailers, travel groups and entertainment companies
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Grandparents leave
• Company performance related annual bonus – Up to 5%
• Income protection
• Access to Saga Academy, our bespoke learning platform

About the Company

Over the past 70 years we have become the UK’s specialist provider of products and services to people aged over 50 in the UK. The Saga brand has become one of the most recognised and trusted brands amongst UK consumers in this demographic, recognised for its high quality products and exceptional standards of service. These include cruises and holidays, insurance, personal finance and the Saga Magazine.

At Saga we are committed to treating all employees fairly and to offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement. We value diversity not just because it is the right thing to do, but because diverse teams perform better.

Fair consideration is given to applications from all applicants, including those with disabilities and those over who are over 50 as we are champions of age inclusivity. We are an official Disability Confident Committed employer and ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will make reasonable adjustments as required. For more information on our DEI policies please visit our Saga Careers page.

​Saga does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged on the role by the Talent Acquisition Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters, employees or any other company location. Saga will not be responsible for any fees related to CVs received in this unsolicited manner.

Job Reference: saga/TP/56250/2890