About us  

Iken is an independent software company based in central Bristol. We have an excellent reputation for both our efficiency and productivity boosting product suite and our approach to client care. The Iken team is made up of people who aspire to high performance and continuous improvement of themselves and the business – and that’s what we’re looking for from you.  

Our company values are at the heart of what all our employees do day to day and we want to work with people with whom these values resonate. Within your role you will be expected to work inter-dependently, taking responsibility for your own success and that of the company – whilst being part of high challenge and high support company culture with a busy social life and corporate social responsibility agenda.  

The Role  

As part of the Testing Team, Software Testers contribute to the improvement and innovation of our knowledge management software. Working in an Agile Scrum environment, you will work with colleagues across several teams in the planning, development and execution of manual and automated test scripts to qualitatively assess releases and upgrades to desktop and web applications according to business requirements and our testing strategy. As part of the testing process, you will be responsible for detecting, reporting and tracking software defects through to resolution.  

Key responsibilities  

• Devise test plans based on acceptance criteria and provide time estimation for testing activities on desktop and web applications  

• Producing, executing and reporting on functional and non-functional test cases according to agreed test design standards and requirements. Modifying tests if necessary following analysis of results and risks or anomalies  

• Enable the quality of new software features and releases by testing to the required standards  

• Actively participate in daily scrums and other sprint  meetings, including identifying areas for improvement  

• Identify and triage bugs to maintain a stable codebase. This may include working with developers in identifying and implementing work arounds as well as long term fixes  

• Maintain test documentation and revise as needed to improve testing function and practices  

• Contribute to an environment which encourages sharing of good practice, technical knowledge and product knowledge to the wider delivery team, including developers, testers, and product  

About You  

• Experience of manual and automated testing of desktop and web applications in an Agile Scrum environment incl. iterative development, design reviews, personas, example mapping   

• Good understanding of all types of functional and non-functional testing  

• Experience of scripting test plans in Gherkin  

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills with thorough attention to detail whilst maintaining awareness of the bigger picture  

• Working knowledge of testing desktop & web applications across multiple platforms incl. UI testing, and accessibility testing to meet WCAG AA standard   

• Exposure to security testing (OWASP) and use of the Visual Studio suite  

• Good knowledge of API testing   

• Competent user of Azure DevOps, GIT  

• Understanding of test automation frameworks incl. the test coverage of automated tests in Selenium, BackstopJS, Postman; tests via CICD pipelines  

• Basic knowledge of SQL  

• Keen interest in new technologies and applications to our business area  

• ISTQB Certification (preferred not essential)  

What we offer  

• 24 days’ holiday (excl. bank holidays) which increases with each year of service up to 34 days.  

• 6% employer contribution pension scheme  

• Cycle to work scheme  

• Flexible working  

• Opportunities for training and career development  

• Quarterly in office company meeting events 

• Hybrid Working  

Additional  

Applicants must have existing, unrestricted right to work in the UK. We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role