Help us shape the future of telecoms as an Automation Tester.
4Com supply market-leading phone systems to UK SMEs for over 25 years. There's so much more to us than that though; we’re one of the best places to work in the UK, are renowned locally for our charity work (with over £400,000 donated), and our offices are based just a 5-minute walk from Bournemouth beach.
This role requires the Automation Tester to be responsible for developing the testing frameworks and, where appropriate, will introduce new test tools with the goal to automate as much of the testing process as possible. The Automation Tester will be proactive in identifying improvements to help assure the quality of our products, whilst being responsible for making testing methods efficient and reliable.
Benefits for an Automation Tester choosing to work with 4Com include:
- Salary £43K – £57K dependent on experience.
- Generous 30 days holiday from the outset (38 including bank holidays).
- Annual training budget of £4,000, with £500 of this to use on your home office setup.
- Flexible working (core hours 10-3:30pm) to support your work/life balance.
- Remote first agile working.
- High spec mobile phone of your choice (up to £1000), and laptop.
- Company Pension.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Offsite departmental team events, and collaboration days.
In return for this, we are looking for someone who has:
- Experience in test automation, using C#.
- Experience in testing backend Cloud service such as Azure functions, App Services, SQL Database etc.
- Experience in an agile environment.
- Experience in using automation tools such as Specflow, Selenium, Playwright, Appium (or other).
- Experience in creating and maintaining test plans.
- Be able to hit the ground running and be proactive in exploring new techniques and new ways of working.
- A positive attitude with the ability to work well within our development teams.
- Great communication and organisational skills with a natural problem-solving mindset.
Desirable Experience:
- Previous experience working within the telecommunications industry.
- Experience working with PBXs, Voice and Video products.
- An understanding of Azure DevOps CI/CD test integration.
- Load test tools, such as Imeter.
What would I be doing as an Automation Tester at 4Com?
- Implementing test strategies across multiple software products.
- Working with the development team and Product Owners to take user requirements and produce test scenarios – covering both expected and unexpected behaviour, functional and non-functional requirements.
- Establish a consistent testing framework and tool chain over multiple software products.
- Writing and maintaining automated test scripts and a Regression Test Suite.
- Integrating scripts with the development pipeline.
- Where required completing manual testing.
- Reporting test results and managing defects.
- Mentoring other junior QA team members, where appropriate.
- Participating in Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning and retrospectives
Should the role of an Automation Tester sound like your ideal role, please get in touch with us today.
Please note, full ‘Rights to Work in the UK’ checks will be completed during the interview process.