QA Engineer

Location: Remote working, with very occasional travel to London

Salary: £35,000 - £45,000 depending on experience

Key Responsibilities

- Analyse Business Requirements – Understand, break down, and validate complex business needs to ensure comprehensive test coverage.

- Develop Test Strategies – Design and implement testing strategies from the ground up, balancing manual and automated testing approaches.

- Manual & Automated Testing – Execute manual tests to supplement automation, ensuring robust software quality.

- Collaborate Across Teams – Work closely with developers, product managers, and stakeholders to ensure quality is built into the SDLC from the beginning.

- Report & Communicate Issues – Document test results, report bugs, and provide actionable feedback to the development team.

Requirements

- Analytical and logical thinking.

- Understanding business situations and requirements.
- Good Manual testing skills will be required, supplementing existing automation tests.
- Experience building test strategies from the foundation up.
- Good working knowledge of Git or another source control system. Familiarity with GitHub a bonus.
- Ability to understand and break down complex requirements.

Skills

- Excellent verbal and written English.
- Experience of a project management tool such as Jira or TargetProcess.
- Analytical thinking and a desire to improve software early in the SDLC.
- Certifications (ISEB-ISQTB - Foundation or an equivalent / higher ones).
- Web-Based Automation experience (Any Ruby / JS / Php ones such as Selenium/Capybara/Cypress/Playwright/Behat are sufficient).
- Exposure to BDD style frameworks such as Cucumber.
- Contributions to automation frameworks. Expertise in any is preferred.
- Experience in the Property industry / Familiarity with rental & housing requirements.
- Greenfield testing experience.

Technical Values

Passion: You need to be passionate about your work. We know that the QA process is vital to developing good products and we want you to grow both professionally and personally whilst you are working with us. At Dexters we will provide you with the tools to improve; both in terms of technical testing capabilities as well as automation expertise - it should be expected that you will look to learn in this role. You should show a keen interest in learning and applying the skills you develop to the work we do at Dexters.

Communication: Being able to convey complex ideas demonstrates you have a solid understanding of the subject. Communication is key to what we are trying to achieve at Dexters. The tech department is growing rapidly and collaboration will be key to our success. You should be comfortable working with other areas of the business on a wide-variety of projects and processes.

Keen interest in problem solving: We are revolutionising the property world and to do that we need to solve problems for our customers. Here at Dexters we often are solving problems that might not have a self-evident solution - so you need to be interested in finding elegant solutions whilst showing initiative in consistently improving our methodologies, systems and products.