Graduate Technical Software Tester

**Graduate Technical Software Tester**

**Location: Milton Keynes (hybrid working)**

**Salary: £24k + profit share, contributory pension, medical benefits, life assurance & flexible holiday.**

Our client is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated graduate who is keen to build a career in their software engineering team working to create and enhance great products that are critical to their customers. In return you will find a supportive andtalented team to work with, in a company that respects, trusts, and invests in their employees.

**About the Role**:
They operate in a sector that is undergoing rapid change, with organisations aiming to reduce their carbon emissions and electricity suppliers seeking more innovative solutions for their customers. Our client, as a UK leader in technology for the energymarket, is ideally placed to help their customers adapt in this rapidly changing sector, as they move to a more sustainable future.

**The Role**:

- Hybrid - remote and office-based working, within a team of skilled engineers across various disciplines (Analysis, Development, Testing and Operations)
- Working in an agile scrum environment which adheres to scrum values, delivering significant change to their products
- Directly involved in design, development, test and delivery of great new features and improvements that the team is expected to champion, support, and evolve
- High degree of collaboration across the team, eager to improve on everything that they do, with a keen eye for efficiency and quality
- As a technical role, you will be working to improve test automation across their products using a mixture of API and UI testing tools and be capable of learning and writing code to facilitate this form of testing
- You will design, build, and execute non-functional automated tests (e.g., Security, Performance etc.)
- Writing automated tests with Java/Groovy, Javascript
- Feeding test data into automated tests with the use of SQL to databases such as mySQL and Oracle
- Working with test automation tools like ReadyAPI, jMeter, and UI testing tools like TestComplete, Katalon
- Working with API specifications (OpenAPI, Swagger, SOAP etc.)
- Managing test automation lifecycle with GIT, BitBucket, Docker, Jira Cloud, Zephyr, Testrail
- Accessing servers via Linux shell/Bash

**About you**:

- You collaborate well within a team and are motivated to learn new technologies and understand existing software platforms, so that you can help shape them in the future
- You have a desire to learn and understand how energy retail and energy management industries work, to help them build game changing solutions
- You have some knowledge or interest in test automation
- You have an interest in assuring both the functional and non-functional aspects of software and are motivated to deliver secure, reliable, and high-performance software

**Benefits they offer**:

- Employee ownership profit share
- Hybrid working (mix of office and home based)
- Flexible holidays
- Good career progression
- Contributory pension
- Medical benefits
- Life assurance
- Continued learning and development through internal and external training
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free on-site parking
- On-site kitchenette and chill-out areas with free fruit, tea and coffee
- Company funded events and team building

**About our client**:
Our client, established in 1995, is an innovative IT company specialising in the energy sector. Having acquired another company in 2017, a company specialising in energy management software and services, they are well placed to become a leading softwareand service provider in their related sectors of energy retail and energy management.

In 2019 they moved into employee ownership, meaning that all their employees share in the success of their business through a profit share scheme.

Their aim is to be recognised as the leading software company in the energy sector and so they are looking for smart people to help them achieve that - intelligent, outgoing, pragmatic, and hard-working individuals with a genuine interest in IT.