QA Test Analyst Job in United Kingdom
Cookpad Ltd , United Kingdom

As a QA Test Analyst, your role will be to ensure a high quality product is delivered to our end users. Working with a multi-disciplinary, talented, global team your role will include exploratory testing across iOS and Android platforms, feature reviews and delivery board management.

Our purpose at Cookpad is to make everyday cooking fun. Not just because we like food but because we believe that cooking is key to a happier and healthier life for people, communities and the planet.

Everyday, home cooking has a profound impact on ourselves and the world around us: it makes us healthier, connects us with our friends and family, and makes our environment more sustainable. By solving the problems related to everyday cooking and encouraging more people to cook, we believe we can help build a better world.

Cookpad started out in Japan and is already the largest recipe sharing community in the world with nearly 5 million recipes created by users active in 80 countries. Our international HQ in the UK. Here we operate as a start-up with global ambition. We work in small, collaborative teams and in a creative, fast-paced environment.

What’s it like to work at Cookpad? Visit www.cookpadteam.com and https://medium.com/cookpadteam to find out more.

The role is based in Bristol, UK - a city on National Geographic’s Cool List 2018 http://www.natgeotraveller.co.uk/smart-travel/features/the-cool-list-2018/

Requirements

As a QA Test Analyst responsibilities will include:

• Exploratory testing across apps, web applications amp; APIs
• Ability to use proxy tools to view API calls and manipulate data
• Clear documentation of issues
• Triaging known issues with Project Managers
• Confidence to voice ideas or concerns within team feature/design reviews
• Working closely with each feature team to ensure releases run smoothly
• Weekly regression testing
• Raise tests for automation team

What we are looking for:

Experience

• Experience in exploratory testing
• Experience testing across apps, web applications amp; APIs
• Tools
• Comfortable using Github
• Experience with proxy tools (such as Charles Proxy)
• Experience with Postman API
• Xcode amp; Android Studio simulators/emulators

Soft Skills

• Proactive attitude and friendly nature
• Fantastic communicator
• Ability to build strong working relationships within feature teams
• Approachable nature
• Aptitude to learn and broaden your own skill set
• Healthy work ethic (upholding values, goals, performance, morals, professional)
• Team player
• Accountability

Please note only candidates with the right to work in the UK can be considered.

Benefits

Why join Cookpad?

People join us because they share our vision to improve people’s lives. As a company Cookpad invests heavily in learning and development -we hire smart people who thrive in small, highly collaborative and energised teams, and who look at what we do and want to be part of it.

Valuing our team means we offer competitive salaries, an employee referral scheme and very generous benefits, including 7% employer pension contribution, income protection and life insurance. We are central to transport hubs and bike routes which helps with flexible working and all-important downtime with family and friends.

In our usual working environment breakfast is provided every day, we have a fully stocked and fully equipped team kitchen where we can cook together and there are weekly pilates/ yoga classes.

In this interim period due to the current global pandemic we are working to keep as many of our perks as possible available to our staff. This includes moving the pilates/ yoga classes online as well as company socials and attendance of meetups.

Equal Opportunity

The Cookpad team is made up of an incredible, diverse range of people. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, colour, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.

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