Manual Test Engineer

About Us:

Solirius Reply, part of the Reply Group, delivers technical consultancy and application delivery to our clients in order to solve real world problems and allow our clients to respond to an ever-changing technical landscape. We partner closely with our clients, embedding our consultants into their businesses in order to provide a bespoke service, allowing us to truly understand our clients’ needs.

It is this close collaboration with our clients that has enabled us to grow rapidly in recent years and will drive our ambitious future growth plans. We currently have over 300 consultants working with a variety of key clients from both the public and private sectors such as the Ministry of Justice, Department for Education, FCDOS, UEFA, International Olympic Committee and Mercedes Benz; with plans to increase our client base further in the near future.

We operate as a flat organisation and believe in trusting and supporting our team to operate independently. We pride ourselves on being specialists at what we do, making the most of our consultants’ expertise in their fields in order to provide a best-in-class service to our clients. All our consultants have the opportunity to work on a range of different projects, providing a broad range of knowledge on which to develop their careers and progress in the direction they choose.

About You:

You are a motivated and adaptable professional with a strong analytical mindset and a passion for using technology to solve real-world problems. You enjoy working in collaborative, agile teams and take pride in delivering high-quality solutions that make a tangible impact. With strong communication skills and a consultative approach, you’re comfortable engaging with clients, understanding their needs, and translating them into effective outcomes. You understand and align with Solirius Reply Values.

The Role:

We are looking for an experienced Agile Test Engineer with a solid grasp of the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and a track record of delivering high-quality testing outcomes in Agile environments, to work with our government clients on delivering critical projects. You will be instrumental in delivering testing projects- ensuring the quality and reliability of software solutions, working directly with clients and stakeholders and working closely with wider testing and cross-functional technical teams.

You will ideally have a strong understanding of test planning and delivery and be able to apply this in a hands-on approach coupled with experience in strong collaborative skills with teams of test engineers at all levels.

Requirements:
Key Responsibilities:

• Assist with planning and coordination of all testing activities
• Analysing test requirements, designing and producing reusable test scripts.
• Creating and managing test regression packs.
• Creating and managing test data to support the planning and execution of test scripts.
• Overcoming obstacles, such as working with the team on clarification of requirements or seeing bugs through to resolution to deliver quality testing on time.
• Reviewing test artefacts produced by peers.
• Analysing test results and updating test suites as needed to ensure accuracy and coverage.
• Identifying, documenting, and tracking defects to resolution while ensuring root cause analysis is conducted and preventive measures are implemented.
• Responsible for defect management and triage
• Executing test scripts from plans and accurately reporting where requirements are not being met.
• Defining and implementing key test KPIs to ensure high quality standards are achieved
• Managing key stakeholders, developing and managing ongoing relationships.
• Advocating for best practices in testing and quality assurance, driving continuous improvement in testing processes and outcomes.
• Reporting on test progression with key stakeholders
• Contributing to release, deployment and change planning.
• Awareness of the CI/CD pipeline and integration tools such as jenkins and github
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of Agile methodologies

Key Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience of Functional Testing: running and managing appropriate tests to ensure requirements are met.
• Previous use of Azure DevOps, JIRA, or similar tool for testing and requirements management
• Previous experience working with and testing COTS products.
• Ability to identify, research and implement effective testing techniques and tools.
• Very strong communicator in raising, managing issues and defects to stakeholders.
• Experience in creating and managing Test Data.
• Proven experience of defining and implementing test improvement strategies.
• Experience with Delivery and Technologies ideally across the Government domain
• Ability to manage multiple resources and allocate workload
• Ability to demonstrate flexibility and adaptability to evolving objectives, excelling under pressure.
• Strong decision making and problem-solving skills.
• Proven experience of strong stakeholder management in prominent high paced environments.
• Experience in supporting and mentoring junior team members.
• Proven experience of improving processes, setting strategy, delivering improvements, maintaining a quality service, and driving change.

Benefits:
What We Offer:

• Competitive Salary
• 25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
• Flexibility to work from home
• 10 days allocated for development training per year
• Generous Discretionary Bonus
• Statutory & Contributory Pension
• Private Healthcare Cover
• Discounted Gym Membership
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Paid Fertility Leave
• Cycle to Work and Electric Vehicle schemes
• Access to Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Annual Away Days
• Monthly Company Socials

Equality & Diversity:

Solirius Reply is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that supports, celebrates, encourages, and respects all individuals and in which all processes are based on merit, competence and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexuality, age, disability, ethnicity, marital status or any other protected characteristics.

Should you require further assistance or require any reasonable adjustments be put in place to better support your application process, please do not hesitate to raise this with us.