Graduate Software Engineer jobs in Stevenage

Job Title: Software Automation QA

Location: Loughton, Essex

Who are we?

PDL Finance Limited. Established in 2009 and regulated by the FCA, with a proven track record for customer and employee satisfaction.

What we are looking for?

We are seeking an extremely driven, passionate and motivated individual to join our in-house development family. The ideal candidate will enjoy learning, seeing projects through to completion and thrive on new challenges. As a member of our team, your role will be to ensure the quality of the Mr Lender applications through manual and automated testing.

Benefits

• Working within a newly refurbished dedicated office space with free onsite employee gym
• Access to a large breakout space with comfortable seating, pool table and arcade games
• Free on-site parking
• Central Line Train station within one-minute walk with quick access to Central London
• Close road links to M11/M25/A406/A12 and London
• Social events
• Pension Scheme
• Healthshield (health cash back scheme and counselling services)
• 28 days annual leave, incl. Bank Holidays, per annum, with an additional day per year of service (capped at 33 days)
• Eye Test / Glasses reimbursement scheme
• Various team and personal reward incentives

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include, but not solely be limited to:

• Develop and enhance Selenium test suite, both by creating new tests and refining existing ones
• Implement upgrades to the Selenium test framework to ensure optimal performance and compatibility
• Conduct comprehensive testing of the frontend website across various platforms, including desktops, mobile devices, and tablets
• Verify the functionality of the backend "admin" features on popular web browsers such as Chrome and Firefox
• Conduct comprehensive testing of various API's used by affiliates and other third-party service providers
• Perform testing on automation jobs
• Respond to inquiries and address concerns raised by agents and senior management through the development team support mailbox as needed
• Regularly monitor error logs to detect and report any issues occurring within the live environment
• Analyse user interaction videos to identify potential usability or functionality issues
• Ensure timely and predictable software releases, promptly communicating any impediments to the release process
• Participate in scrum meetings and client briefings to collaborate effectively with team members and stakeholders
• Commitment to perform to high standards and:
• act with integrity;
• act with due care, skill and diligence;
• be open and cooperative with the FCA, the PRA and other regulators;
• pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly; and
• act to deliver good outcomes for customers.
• Understand the requirements of Principle 12 (Consumer Duty), specifically relating to:
• PDL’s products and services meeting the needs of its target market including any vulnerable consumers to ensure good customers outcomes in regard to:
• affordability,
• sustainability,
• appropriate marketing,
• sound customer understanding (across the customer base); and
• high levels of customer support.

Desired Skills

• Strong Experience with Selenium in C#
• Experience with Reqnroll, formally Specflow
• Experience working with Page Object Model design pattern
• Good Experience crafting robust element locators (i.e. CSS selectors) and best practices
• Experience in debugging tests locally and using the browser devtools / console

The above is a summary of the role and the employee is expected to undertake any additional ad-hoc duties or other duties, which fall within their role, responsibilities and capabilities even if they are undertaken by others from time to time, in order to fulfil the needs of the business.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: From £40,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• Discounted or free food
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site gym
• On-site parking
• Referral programme

Work Location: In person