QA Lead

We’re looking for a QA Engineer to join our digital product delivery function. Red Badger delivers high quality digital products using a lean delivery process and multidisciplinary, cross-functional teams.

We believe there is more to QA than testing. As a QA Engineer, you will be the champion of quality in a cross-discipline team, and responsible for all aspects of quality from well defined and understood product feature description to testing and release management, balancing risk with speed of delivery. You will bring with you consultancy skills, crucial in transforming the QA practices of our client base.

You will enjoy seeking out innovative solutions to complex problems, embracing new tools and techniques, and have a strategic approach to everything you do. You will work with your team and the immediate stakeholders to continuously improve the QA process of the project, and work on influencing the overall QA practice of the client. You are comfortable forming a QA strategy for a complex digital product and influencing the client in a diplomatic manner to enable executing it. 

You are passionate about delivering quality software and can lean on your rounded skill set to enhance the Product, Agile software delivery and Technology capabilities of the team. Working as part of a cross-functional team, you will ensure that QA is never siloed, but injected into everything we do.

Discipline expertise

• Looking at quality holistically and throughout the software development process
• Promoting lean approach to QA and focus on delivering maximum value with minimal effort
• Adopting a risk-based approach to quality assurance
• Supporting a continuous delivery approach
• Advocating for simplicity in testing, approach, ways of working and tool choice
• Advocating innovative approach / use of new technology and techniques where appropriate

Leading QA in a team 

• Collaborating with the Tech Lead on lean testing and release strategy balancing risk and speed of delivery
• Managing the issue backlog and facilitating bug triage based on risk and impact 
• Working closely with the Product Owner and Delivery Lead on prioritising product features and uncovering edge cases
• Pairing with other team members and encourage a focus on quality and observability in the team
• Assisting the team with support process and incident management

Influencing our clients

• Consulting with peers from the client on areas of QA expertise
• Working with client leadership to enable the team strategies and ways of woking

Supporting our team 

• Line management of junior and mid-level members of the QA team 
• Contributing to the QA discipline at Red Badger

It’d be great if you  

• Are proficient in exploratory testing in a full-stack digital product and identifying good candidates for automation
• Have experience formulating a testing strategy comprising exploratory and automated testing
• Have a track record of improving QA process, testing often, early and in line with Lean principles
• Are comfortable working with engineers on complex technical issues
• Are experienced in collaborating with Product-oriented peers on user-focussed solutions 
• Have extensive experience operating within an Agile environment
• Have experience managing the release process for a product or suite of products
• Champion user-focused QA, such as accessibility testing 

It’d be amazing if you also 

• Have experience using monitoring and log management tools to identify issues in a live system
• Have experience with production incident management and post mortems
• Have non-functional experience including basic security, performance testing
• Have experience with automated end-to-end and API testing tools and techniques

What we offer

We make sure our team is well looked after with generous salaries and a great benefits package which includes:

• Annual £2,000 training budget
• Enhanced pension with employer contribution of up to 5% of your salary
• Group Life Insurance
• Income Replacement Benefit
• Critical Illness Cover
• Private Medical Insurance
• Your choice of hardware and mobile phone
• £1,000 home-office set up budget and contribution to home broadband
• Matched (pre-tax) charity GAYE donations
• Cycle to work
• Enhanced parental leave.
• Our core working hours are 10am-3pm to allow you flexibility to plan your work around your personal commitments.

Red Badger Values:

People people
We respect and care for each other, giving us the space to be our true selves.
Find a way
We’re comfortable with uncertainty, and want to take ownership for outcomes, which we are proactive in delivering.
Always learning
We’re curious. It’s how we learn and grow as individuals, continuously testing and improving what we do, and how we do it.
Open & Fair
We build trust by telling things as they are, being open, and seeking to achieve fair and equitable outcomes.
Collaborative
We are united by our desire to get to the best ideas. We are generous with our knowledge, actively listen to each other, and are open minded.

Diversity & Inclusion:

Red Badger is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment, and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire, employ, train, promote and compensate regardless of gender, gender identity, race, disability, sexual orientation, age, creed and colour. We are fully focused on equality, and it is our fundamental belief that the fascinating characteristics that make us all different enable us to continue to do amazing work for our clients.