Senior Tester

**Salary**: £55,000

**Location**: Horsham (Flexibility for work-from-home is available after the first 3 months)

**Work Pattern**:Monday to FridayTravel will be required for meetings (Probably once per week)

**Benefits**:33 days paid Holiday, Extra Day off for your Birthday (going up with service), Pension, Life Insurance, Company Sick Pay, Company Rewards and Incentives, Employee Assistance Scheme

**Objectives**:

- You will also play a key role in establishing the automated testing functions for our move to a CI/CD environment.
- You will be responsible for all testing and automated testing of the business requirements for our software solutions at the user and API levels.

**Responsibilities**:

- An integral part of the IT Leadership Team reporting direct to the IT Director, you will establish a new IT Testing team and ensure the team’s tools, procedures, processes and tasks are carried out efficiently and to a high standard of quality
- Engage with product managers, business analysts and developers to clarify features and functionality
- Be involved in functional and non-functional testing, defect tracking and reporting to senior management
- Liaise with Support to help identify production issues and known bugs
- Contribute to the Development Team’s working practices and technology decisions, including process improvements.
- Create and maintain automated test solutions - Web and API
- Work on specific projects to support the IT Director and the wider business
- Mentor and coach staff to maximise individual and team development, growth, competence, and succession

**Required background**:

- Expertise in capturing and analysing data and documenting Test plans and tracking deliverables using Azure DevOps or similar test management tools
- Postman, SoapUI/ReadyAPI or other API-focused test automation tools
- Performance/load testing experience using LoadUI Pro or other performance testing tools
- A willingness to share knowledge and skills with developers and team; improve the quality of our products through improved testing methods and approaches
- Understanding of or experience of maintaining an API test automation framework including the ability to write/amend automated test cases written in C#. Experience with other Object Orientated languages also considered
- Tenacity and exceptional pride in the work you produce
- Previous exposure to senior stakeholders and IT/Technology teams who want to see you perform at your best
- Exceptional communication skills and a diplomatic approach to problem-solving
- Confident when working autonomously - you must be capable of self-motivating and taking ownership of identified issues
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal skills - attention to detail is incredibly important to you
- Ability to work as part of a delivery-focused and proactive team - the more you do, the more you’ll learn
- Previous experience of supporting complex, company-wide technology projects

**The Person**:

- Team working: Contributes to team and business objectives regardless of personal commitments. Must recognise skill gaps, and potential for development in oneself.
- Change: Demonstrates commitment to process improvement and efficiency in all respects. Identifies barriers to improvement and works actively to remove them.
- Clarity of Thinking: Thinks clearly and quickly about issues. Has an eye for detail and identifies critical information within complex scenarios. Uses the relevant information to make a balanced judgment and follows through to action.
- Empowerment: Understands when to consult or involve others. Remains aware of the bigger picture and identifies what is important. Helps others to resolve complex problems.
- Communication: Communicates in such a way that key messages cannot be missed.
- Knowledge: Has a commitment to personal development.
- Experience within either a similar Estate Agency or Financial Services company, whilst not essential would be beneficial in this role.

**The Company**:
Arun Estates is the largest independent estate agency in the south-east of England and the 10th largest nationally. We are made up of 4 locally respected brands. Locally known as Cubitt & West, we also incorporate Douglas Allen in East London and Essex, Wards of Kent, and Pittis on the Isle of Wight. Our business also provides additional property services including a large team of mortgage, lettings and land & new homes professionals.

The IT team deliver trusted technology solutions that help our users and customers with property sales, lettings and related moving services. We are looking to significantly increase our IT team to improve and develop our technology offerings across the whole business. This is a fantastic opportunity use your passion and skills in an exciting new IT direction to really help make a difference.

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