QA Engineer

The acquisition by Sage of Spherics - the company behind the award-winning, carbon accounting software, led to the launch of an exciting new brand - Sage Earth. Combining the backing of a global SaaS business, with a combination of climate science expertise and bespoke technology, Sage Earth is ready to help Sage customers make net zero a reality. The Sage Earth software enables businesses to automate the collection of expenditure data and gather information on business activities to better understand their carbon footprint. Using the Greenhouse Gas Protocol methodology, this market-leading tech, helps business leaders set science-based targets and reduction strategies. Why is this so important to us? Well, because one of our values is being Human, and what’s more Human than caring for one another’s future?

We are hiring an automated QA Tester to support our growing software engineering team.

The QA Tester will be required to create, maintain, audit and improve testing systems to meet business needs. We are looking for someone to work alongside the development team to test efficiently in order to improve the product and customer experience, analyse root cause of defects, perform reviews and facilitate overall system quality. This is a new role, so the QA Tester will be helping to define the development process and build out the departmental test coverage using a risk based approach.

Responsibilities

Actively participate in planning, estimation, and prioritisation processes to ensure successful execution of QA activities

Create test scripts for new product features based on the product roadmap

Perform execution of test cases and test scripts against our tech stack

Conduct post-release functional and user acceptance testing

Performing regression tests for new and old features

Capture test results, and test metrics and report and analyse them

Execute root cause analysis of defects and escalate to dev team and Engineering Director

Create and maintain relevant documentation to describe test setup, execution, and QA processes

Take accountability for all test related activities within a test phase

Define appropriate test coverage to mitigate the identified risks

Demonstrate continuous improvement in your product and system knowledge

Develop skills and experience of manual testing tools

Identify opportunities for improving Sage testing standards

Keep up to date with relevant testing tools / techniques

Skills and Experience

Proven experience as an automated Quality Assurance Tester or similar role

Motivated and capable of multitasking

Detail-oriented and an analytical thinker

Fast learner and adaptable to new experiences

Good troubleshooting skills

General familiarity with a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools

Experience using Jira for issue and project tracking (nice to have)

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Be an active and enthusiastic team player

Passion for Climate Tech and the Environment

Experience writing end-to-end web tests using the Cypress test framework

Experience writing Postman test scripts

Experience in Typescript or Javascript