Job Description

About Us

As an Arcadian, you already help us deliver world leading sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. You are part of our global business comprising 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can continue to solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Level 8 degree in a technical discipline (Computer Science, Engineering) with up to 3 years’ experience or 3-5 years equivalent experience in a QA role.  The QA will have technical experience across all aspects of the IT software development life cycle with skill-sets in the following:

• Automated Testing
• Good SQL knowledge
• Some experience of C# or other OO languages
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills

The QA will assist other members of the QA team in the preparations of automation tests and manual user acceptance tests, debugging and defining corrective actions of the Software Services Group (SSG) software to ensure that products and systems comply with customer requirements.

Role Expectations

Business Development/Client Relationships:

-Be authentic with dealing with clients and build relationships based on trust.

Core Values:

-Ensure to follow Arcadis Core Values

Team:

-Adhere to Arcadis behavioural expectations and values

-Treat all members of the team are treated with respect and support them in their work.

Quality:

-Follow SSG SOPs and Work Instructions and adhere to the team's ISO 9001 objectives

-Follow Arcadis SOP’s, Work Instructions and Guidelines on projects

-Implement Arcadis systems and tools on projects

-Ensure corrective actions are closed out in an appropriate and timely fashion

-Follow QA guidelines in the DevOPs Wiki

Training and Development:

-Discuss with your managers areas that you would like to develop in and identify training that could facilitate this.

-Strive to join relevant technical/professional organisations.

Continuous Improvements:

-Actively participate in Project Lessons learnt

-Assist other team members with the development of CI plans, reports and KPIs for your discipline

Branding:

-Ensure awareness and Compliance with all relevant Arcadis Branding requirements

HR:

-Compliance with all relevant HR procedures and standards

Experience and Skills Required

Education:

• Level 8 Degree or equivalent experience in a technical discipline (computer science or engineering)
• 2-3 years in a QA role in a technological environment

Responsibilities:

• Liaise with business analysis, support and development teams to identify test requirements
• Plan and implement manual and automated tests across the product’s APIs / web applications
• Deliver product to the highest standard, satisfying functional and non-functional requirements
• Requirements analysis for manual and automated testing
• Develop test documentation for manual and automation testing
• Follow QA standard operating procedures and work instructions to meet SSG ISO QMS objectives

Experience:

• Proven work experience in software development
• Proven work experience in software quality assurance
• Familiarity of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Familiarity of writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Hands-on experience with Playwright

Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting

• Experience working in a Scrum or Agile development team
• Experience of C# and TypeScript (any other OO languages as a plus)
• Hands-on experience with Azure Infrastructure & Azure DevOps

Skills:

• Attentive to detail and highly organised
• Have a critical mindset aimed to find errors
• Demonstrates good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Confident dealing with client stakeholders and other team members
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to look at systems from the perspective of the end-user

Desirable

• Previous experience in event sourcing architecture
• Hands-on experience with component testing in Cypress
• Hands on experience with unit testing in C#
• Experience with docker

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.