Senior QA Engineer

Department: QA

Employment Type: Full time

Location: Manchester, UK

Amplience dramatically simplifies how clients plan, create, manage, and deliver content. With a modern API-first approach, the Amplience solution can unleash the creativity and productivity of content and technology teams. Amplience serves more than 200 of the world’s leading retailers including Otto.de, Crate and Barrel, Boohoo, Mulberry, Shop Direct, and TUMI.

We move at a fast pace, have interesting problems to solve and are teeming with talented people committed to creating the best solutions for our customers. We recognise that employee success is core to customer success and are therefore committed to providing a culture of support and autonomy for our team in order to achieve this.

Key Responsibilities

Bug tracking software, eg Jira, Bugzilla, Redmine
Restful APIs, JSON http requests, response codes, headers
Familiarity with frontend technology such as Javascript / Typescript
Database exposure, such as SQL, NoSQL, or search indexes such as elasticsearch
Scripting language (Ruby, Python, etc) knowledge, with enough to follow flow of automated tests
AWS or other cloud services

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

5+ years in a QA engineer role for a web, or shrink wrap software project
Agile methodology, Scrum or Kanban and software development cycle
Good written skills and communication within other members of the dev team
Can work without micromanagement or external supervision, in a milestone delivery environment
Analytics approach to ‘what it’ questions

Benefits

Competitive salary
Flexible working arrangements
Discretionary bonus scheme
Company pension scheme
Employee share options so that everyone can benefit from our success
Enhanced maternity & paternity policies
Extra holidays once you've been with us for a while
The option to purchase additional holidays
Charity / volunteer days
Life assurance policy
Ride to work scheme
Season ticket advance loans

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About Amplience

Amplience is an API-first, headless CMS and DAM in one: a unified platform for commerce content that does everything you need it to. Organize, find and enrich all your assets from a central library. Optimize and automate your product media, images and videos.

Plan, schedule, produce and deliver customer experiences. Do it all from the same platform.

And do more of it. Better, and faster, than ever.

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