QA Engineer

It is our vision at Ground Control to leave the world in a better place than we found

We create better landscapes, nurture natural environments and construct spaces that bring people, places and the planet

We are enhancers, creators and shapers with a strong work ethic that enables us to deliver a diverse range of services to multiple sectors and
Our national team of experts deliver tech- enabled, evidence-based solutions to businesses across the UK maintaining ecosystems so they are fit for the

We have an opening for a high-calibre QA Engineer .

Our Engineering department are helping to ensure Ground Control s continued commercial success by transforming business process and customer As a QA Engineer, you will play a critical role enabling Ground Control's continued

Everyone is welcome, and we are embracing a culture where difference is Your uniqueness will be We believe diversity grows initiative, and initiative skyrockets Together we will succeed in caring for each other, caring for our communities, and caring for our

What we offer

At Ground Control we believe in rewarding our employees for their hard Along with a great basic salary and twice-yearly bonus, we also offer a wide-ranging benefits programme inspiring you to realise your full potential;

• A Top 100 Best UK

• Proud holders of The Queens Award for Enterprise - Innovation

• We inclusively support the Race at Work Charter ,Ban The Box ,The Armed Forces Covenant and are Disability

• We invest 5% of our profits into the The Evergreen Fund, an investment fund dedicated to sustainability and environmental

• Ongoing Training, development, coaching and mentoring opportunities, with clear career path progression and Leadership Programmes

• Match funding for employee fundraising and 2 personal choice volunteering

• Free gym access and nursery

• Cycle to work scheme and travel

• Brilliant Health and Wellbeing

What you ll achieve

As a QA Engineer you will:

• Work closely with product owners, scrum masters and lead engineers to ensure that software requirements are clearly defined, and that any potential edge or failure cases are considered and

• Advocate and evangelise for functional and non-functional excellence in everything you do, in line with modern UX principles, operational efficiency, and standards regarding security, resilience, and

• Collaborate with product owners to ensure acceptance criteria for all user stories are clearly defined and captured and solutions delivered by engineers fully meet the agreed functional design and holistic business

• Work with product owners and scrum masters to balance the need for clear and comprehensive test cases against the need for agility just enough, just in time is the

• Define clear test cases that align to defined acceptance criteria that cover all use cases and give appropriate consideration to edge cases, failure cases, and non-functional considerations (scale, security, and resilience),ensuring that test cases are executed for all deliveries and that defects are appropriately triaged and

• Work with product owners and scrum masters to ensure that backlogs are written in a way that supports incremental testing and release of

• Identify test cases that represent good candidates for automation and to use appropriate tooling to create automated

• Work with Software/DevOps/Infrastructure Engineers to ensure good quality test environments are available and, where possible, that appropriate automated processes are in place to align these to production, scale these out, and refresh data as

Who we re looking for -

The successful candidate will have knowledge in:

• SQL and NoSQL database technologies, data migrations, regression testing for integration services and data transformation, Algorithms and data structures, Design patterns and principles, Microservice architectures, Domain driven development, Message-based architectures

• Strong people skills with effective listening and communication, and the ability to influence and problem

• Experience in change and process management

• Strong time management and prioritisation

• Nice to have: SSRS / Power BI knowledge

We have ambitious plans, join our adventure !