Software Tester Apprentice

**Level 4 Software Tester**:
**Company: Kivue**

**Full Address: 100 Longwater Avenue, Green Park, Reading, RG2 6GP HYBRID REMOTE**

**Weekly Hours Worked: 37.5**

**Salary: £14,000 - £18,000**

**About the company**:
Kivue Limited is a specialist PMO business with a compelling combination of a SaaS PPM platform - Kivue Perform and a set of high value PMO services including PMO as a Service to fulfil both long term and short term requirements.

The Kivue team come from a deep history of over 30 years of delivering projects, programmes and portfolios. To develop Kivue Perform into a top quality and high value PPM platform, they have both applied all that delivery experience and learned from mistakes made by other PPM platforms they have worked with over the years to create an exceptional project and portfolio management tool that anyone can use and really adds value immediately.

**Brief job description**:
Estio Training have an exciting new opportunity for a Software Tester Apprentice with Kivue, a Software Development company based in Reading with Hybrid-Remote working.

**Benefits**:

- 30 days holiday per annum Including Bank Hols with opportunity to earn more.
- Annual bonus scheme.
- Contributory pension scheme.
- Opportunity to learn about Portfolio, Programme and Project Management and delivering change within businesses.
- Opportunity to gain experience in any area of a rapidly growing business.

**Your duties and responsibilities in this role will consist of**:

- Review and validate user/business/system stories and requirements.
- Translate the requirements to a series of tests designed to identify defects and malfunctions.
- Develop test environments and scenario driven test cases (automated and manual)
- Executing all levels of testing, such as system, integration and regression
- Regularly run tests during the various implementation stages
- Analyse test results and detect potential issues.
- Suggest fixes, improvements and recommendations.
- Compile timely, comprehensive and accurate documentation, plans, and reports as requested.
- Build automated testing systems for regular checks.
- Communicate effectively and professionally in all forms of communication with internal and external customers.

**Qualifications**:
5 GCSEs grades A*-C/9-4 or equivalent (including English Language and Maths)

**Skills Required**:

- Familiarity with various software testing techniques.
- Analytical, logical and problem-solving mindset.

**Personal qualities**:

- Excellent project and time management skills.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
- Very good interpersonal and team player skills.
- Attention to detail and ability to follow procedures.
- Out-of-the-box thinking and eagerness to learn.

**Future prospects**:
The role offers a permanent role upon completion of the apprenticeship depending on performance.

**Training to be provided**:
Estio apprenticeship training programmes are delivered virtually by our fully qualified and industry experienced training team. Using their expert knowledge, we’ve purposefully built our programmes around the real-world use of modern technology, so that the skills we create can be directly applied in the workplace.

Throughout the apprenticeship learners receive coaching, help and guidance from a dedicated team who are there to ensure they get the most from their work experience.

Successful completion of this apprenticeship gives you an accredited Level 4 Software Tester, with training in how to:

- Ensure that the software used within your business operates as intended.
- Design and prepare test plans and conduct software testing as appropriate to ensure your software is fit for purpose.
- Collect and interpret the results of testing and make appropriate recommendations.
- Document and report test results.
- Store, manage and share test data in a secure manner.