Mobile Software QA Engineer (Hybrid Mobile App Testing)
The Focusrite Group, United Kingdom
Job Description
Mobile Software QA Engineer (Hybrid Mobile App Testing)
Based: London/ High Wycombe / Hybrid / Remote (UK)
Term: Permanent, Full time
Salary: 25,000 - 55,000 pa depending on experience + excellent benefits
Do you have experience testing mobile apps (preferably hybrid apps)?
Are you passionate and knowledgeable about music, audio technology, and recording?
We are looking for someone to help us to test the mobile apps that bring our industry-leading interfaces to life.If you have answered yes to both questions above, we’d love to hear from you!
What you will be doing:
Reporting to the Software QA Manager, you will be working as part of a small development team to ensure the successful delivery of new mobile software to our users.
You will continue to evolve good practice in the planning and documentation of app testing within an agile development environment, and in the appropriate use of automated testing. Contributing to the continual evolution of our test approaches and tools will be a key part of your role.
You will work closely with the rest of the QA Team, as well as Software Developers, Product Designers, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters from across our Engineering Department.
Key activities include:
- Supporting a culture of shared ownership for software quality and helping to maintain focus on our customers’ quality expectations.
- Facilitating the creation of robust, well documented, and maintainable functional, non-functional, and user acceptance tests, as well as writing and executing them yourself
- Writing automated end-to-end tests to enable more efficient regression testing.
- Documenting and reporting test results, working closely with software developers to address any issues.
An ideal candidate is likely to be:
- From a professional mobile app (preferably hybrid) testing background
- An advocate for Test Driven Development, comfortable writing automated end-to-end tests (preferably in JavaScript or TypeScript).
- Familiar with git-based workflows (pull requests, rebasing, etc.) and the principles of Continuous Integration (CI).
- Self-motivated, with a track record of improving test processes and coverage.
- A clear communicator, used to working in an Agile development team.
- Methodical and rigorous, with a logical approach to problem solving.
- Passionate and knowledgeable about music, audio technology, and recording.
Experience of some of the following would also be useful:
- Common JavaScript frameworks, preferably React
- App Development/Test Tools, e.g. Appium, fastlane, TestFlight, adb, etc
I don’t have all the experience you’ve asked for, should I still apply?
Our priority is to find the right fit for the team and the company, and we will always do what we can to support individual development. In other words, if you don’t quite have all the experience listed above, we’d still be interested in hearing from you. Let us know what you'd bring to the role, and why you’d be a great fit for the team.
About Us
Focusrite plc is a global music and audio group that develops and markets music technology products. Used by audio professionals and amateur musicians alike, our solutions facilitate the high-quality production of recorded and live sound. Our audio technology brands stand together, seeking to enrich lives through music by removing barriers to creativity ‘we make music easy to make’.
The Focusrite Group trades under eleven established and rapidly growing brands: Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Novation, ADAM Audio, Sequential, Oberheim, Martin Audio, Optimal Audio, Ampify Music, Linea Research and Sonnox. With a high-quality reputation and a rich heritage spanning decades, its brands are category leaders in the music-making industry.
Music technology is an enriching space to work in and we enjoy a Group-wide open-door culture which encourages innovation. This culture, combined with a passion for the inspirational solutions we create, has led to the group winning numerous accolades, including six Queen's Awards, the AIM Company of the Year Award 2021 and regular appearances in 'The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For’.
The Focusrite Group is dedicated to building a great place to work and as an equal opportunity employer we are committed to Diversity and Inclusion. The group mission is to cultivate an equitable culture, internally and externally, where all people feel they are welcome, safe and positively represented, because at Focusrite they truly are. Equally, we recognise the major impact that climate change is having on our world and work every day towar