Junior QA Engineer

WHO ARE WE?

Searchlight Cyber provides organisations with relevant and actionable dark web threat intelligence, to help them identify and prevent criminal activity. 

Founded in 2017 with a mission to stop criminals acting with impunity on the dark web, we have been involved in some of the world’s largest dark web investigations and have the most comprehensive dataset based on proprietary techniques and ground-breaking academic research. 

Today we help government and law enforcement, enterprises, and managed security services providers around the world to illuminate deep and dark web threats and prevent attacks.

ABOUT THE POSITION

This is an entry level manual testing role - working as part of our growing test team you’ll be responsible for conducting manual testing of our SaaS software products, working with the Product and Development teams to identify and remediate bugs as early as possible in the development cycle.

You’ll be involved in all stages of the testing process - from identifying desired behaviour and helping to draft test cases, carrying out manual testing and reporting your findings to the development team and working with them to ensure a fix is successfully delivered.

Communication skills will be key, taking requirements and converting them into fully fleshed out test plans and cases, and reporting your activities back to relevant stakeholders.

Some familiarity with test management tools such as Jira would be beneficial, as would exposure to API testing using Postman.

WHAT WILL I DO?

• Attend daily standups with the product and development teams and contribute in other agile ceremonies such as retrospectives.

• Create detailed test cases based on acceptance criteria, refining as appropriate

• Test our core product suite, prioritising and completing test activities following best practice

• Liaise with our test lead, developers and product owners, for questions, exceptions and anything test related - we’re looking for someone proactive

• Work closely with the development team to prioritise, manage and retest defects, including managing timescales

• Troubleshoot issues, understand root causes  and potential workarounds; effectively feed back to the relevant stakeholders

• Contribute to reviews of team wide test cases, ensuring full coverage

• Develop effective test plans to identify the scope and types of testing required

• Become an expert in our products, understanding desired behaviour and how this will meet our customers needs.

• Actively participate in 3 amigos sessions and refinement meetings to ensure that user stories have full acceptance criteria captured in a testable format.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• Experience in a manual testing role, ideally against SaaS products, with a keen interest to learn more

• Understanding of how web applications work, where and how data is stored etc

• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, managing testing from user story inception to release deployment

• Exceptional communication skills, with demonstrated history of writing succinct test cases and feedback to all stakeholders from the CTO downwards.

• An exploratory testing expert, able to identify bugs that others would miss

• Skilled in working  with product owners and the wider team to refine acceptance criteria, subsequently designing, reviewing  and execute test cases in an efficient manner

• Knowledge of testing concepts such as functional and non- functional testing, usability, security, load/stress testing

• Experience with testing/development tools such as the below would be useful:

  • Postman
  • Testomat.io
  • Jira
  • GitLab

• Always looking for ways to improve our testing process and products, delivering the best results internally and externally

• A good sense of time management, effectively prioritising tasks and workload to create the best result

• A creative problem-solver, anticipating issues, testing for them, and then assisting in a speedy resolution

PROGRESSION AND TRAINING ROUTES?

Searchlight is a company with a real passion and commitment to developing its staff, and all of our employees are fully supported in their career goals. Typically most candidates will progress from Junior to Intermediate, Senior and to Principal roles, with options to remain a technical specialist or take on management responsibility in due course.

You will be supported with an internal mentor, as well as being supported through a proven learning and development program to support you acquiring the skills and experience you need to progress.

SALARY PACKAGE AND BENEFITS

We offer competitive salaries depending on your experience and skills

• You will also receive:

  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

  • Entry into company pension scheme

  • Company vision scheme

  • Private Dental cover

  • We offer Cycle2Work as well as TechScheme from Currys and Ikea

  • Comprehensive training and support to develop your career, including a training budget

  • A range of office perks, including free fresh fruit daily, a bean to cup coffee machine and more

INTERVIEW PROCESS

• Screening Call with our Talent Manager
• Short Technical test
• Initial interview with our Automation Test Lead
• Face to face interview with several members of our engineering and product teams
  • We’d love to meet you in person for an interview, but are happy for a video call too!
• Offer and onboarding