Opportunity
Brunswick is a special kind of advisory firm. We advise the world’s leading companies on how to navigate the critical issues they face and engage with their most important stakeholders.
As a QA engineer you will be responsible for the quality assurance and processes to ensure that our digital products and services meet the established standards of quality for some of the world’s largest companies.
We pride ourselves in delivering high quality, impactful work, often with a fast turnaround. As the QA Engineer you will play a pivotal role in maintaining and elevating our high standards. You will get the opportunity to collaborate with a wide variety of people across the firm and across our global client base.
You’ll be part of the Digital Design & Technology team, a small close-knit team. Your expertise will be essential to the projects we deliver and in achieving excellence for our clients. The role requires strong communication skills, attention to detail and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement.
In your role you will have the opportunity to upskill and collaborate closely with our Technical Director to help devise testing strategies and implement new ideas. Within this role you will receive support and guidance, providing the ideal environment for professional growth.
Our work within Digital & Technology team
In today’s world, the role of digital is central to helping our clients navigate critical issues that materially affect their business. Our digital capability exists to support the wider Brunswick Group, which is organised around a Practice Group and Sector Group model with offices all around the world.
Within our digital capability we have a team of strategic advisors who help our clients understand challenging situations and make clear and confident decisions to resolve them. We also have an audience and amplification team who gather deep insight into our clients’ core audiences and how best to reach and engage them.
This role is within the Design and Technology team, which exists to support our clients with websites and digital products that help them be more successful at their critical moments. You will be a part of our award-winning, full-service, in-house team of strategy, UX, design, developers, quality assurance and project managers.
Key Responsibilities
- Implement and manage quality assurance policies: Maintain quality assurance standards and procedures for web development projects to ensure product quality and reliability throughout all aspects of a project’s lifecycle.
- Test execution: Test execution of web products to ensure they meet high quality standards.
- Defect tracking and resolution: Manage defect tracking and resolution processes, ensuring issues are documented and resolved in a timely manner.
- Knowledge sharing: Share your expertise with D&T team members, providing support to ensure everyone strives for quality.
- Collaboration and communication are key: Work closely with stakeholders and be able to communicate risks and issues clearly and proactively.
- Support with QA needs across the wider Brunswick community: We work closely with other teams across the business and you will at times need to help where needed with ad hoc tasks. One of the teams that will need support is the AI team.
- Compliance: Ensure all web products comply with industry standards including a strong focus on accessibility.
- Training and personal development: You will be expected to keep up with new technologies and trends and be able to bring back any learnings into the team. We are constantly looking to improve and make our ways of working more efficient.
- Documentation: We have strong documentation and processes in place, you will be expected to keep any documentation up to date and have strong written communication.
- Presentation skills: Be comfortable creating documents and presenting your work to both internal team members and external client teams, as required.
- Automation: Work with the Technical Director to bring test automation processes into the team. Previous experience in this area would be a bonus but not a strict requirement.
Knowledge, Skills, and Competencies
- Proven experience in website development quality assurance.
- Some experience with automated testing tools and frameworks would be preferable.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Knowledge of web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), web development processes and how
websites fundamentally work. - Familiarity with CMS systems and how content is managed.
- Empathy of our end users and an awareness of how they will interact with our products, in order to raise the quality.
- Proficiency in test management software and defect tracking tools. We use Confluence and Jira.
- Understanding of accessibility and how websites need to be adapted to meet user’s needs.
- Ideally some experience with performance testing and security testing
Our Benefits
In addition to life assurance, group income protection, and employer pension contribution, we offer:
- Annual discretionary bonus based on company and individual performance.
- 25 days’ annual leave entitlement (excluding bank holidays) plus an additional day of leave for your birthday.
- Private Medical Insurance for yourself and your dependants, including access to a digital GP service, Menopause plan and Healthline.
- Family Leave policies - Maternity, Paternity, Shared Parental & Adoption.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Headspace for Work membership.
- Financial wellbeing benefit schemes – Season Ticket Loan, Tenancy Deposit Loan and Cycle to Work.
- Eye Care – annual eye examination and contribution towards glasses.
- Annual Flu Vaccinations.
- Corporate Gym Memberships at discounted rates for local gyms.
- External Partnerships – offers and priority booking through the National Theatre.
- Complimentary artisan coffee, tea and snacks, served by our own barista in our café.
- Daily breakfast and lunch served twice a week in our café.
- Lunch & Learn training sessions.
- Regular social, cultural and charitable activities.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Maintaining and strengthening a diverse workforce and inclusive workplace are pillars of Brunswick’s culture and key to our future success. Valuing and supporting every colleague as an individual while helping them reach their full potential is critical to attracting and developing our greatest strength – our people. By embracing our differences and diverse perspectives we create richer experiences within our firm and enhance the quality of the ideas and advice that we deliver to our clients.
Brunswick is an equal opportunities employer and our Equal Opportunities Policy is available on request.
About Brunswick Group
Brunswick is a critical issues firm. We advise the world’s leading companies on how to navigate the critical issues they face and engage with their critical stakeholders.
Our purpose is to help our clients play their role in the world more successfully. We help the leaders of the world’s great value-creating organizations operate successfully across the increasingly complex and fast-changing arenas of finance, politics and society at large.
Brunswick is one firm globally, operating as a single profit centre. This allows us to respond seamlessly and effectively to clients’ needs wherever they are in the world.
Background
Founded in London in 1987, Brunswick’s global partnership has grown organically to 27 offices in 18 countries. We began as a M&A and financial communications firm and, over time, expanded our capabilities to provide expert advice to our clients on a range of business-critical issues. We invested in new offices, sector teams and practice groups including investor engagement; shareholder activism; governance; regulatory and public affairs, including geopolitical; crisis; litigation; social issues including climate change and diversity, equity and inclusion; cybersecurity, data and privacy; employee engagement; digital communications; opinion research and analysis and creative services.
Our CEO is Henry Timms, based in New York. Our Chairman is Sir Alan Parker, based in London.
