Junior User Acceptance Test(UAT) Engineer

About the Appello Group

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We are *committed to transforming lives through technology enabled care services, blending the expertise in our monitoring centre with the latest digital technology being created by ourselves and our partners. As the UK's largest telecare monitoring and digital equipment provider, we support over 300,000 vulnerable people in our communities to live safer, happier, and more enriched lives.

Our journey of supporting housing, health and social care dates back to 24th June 1988 when we took our first emergency call from our Head Office in New Milton, Hampshire. With a team of just five employees, we were pioneers for emergency monitoring within the housing sector. Over the next decade our business grew considerably as did our team.

The Appello Group now consists of many brands, including, Appello and Careline365, all are equally pivotal in our continued growth and commitment to improving the safety and wellbeing of our communities.

Today, we operate from multiple locations across the UK, with offices in Hampshire, Wiltshire, and Norfolk, and a team of remote workers all over the UK.

Position:
Position: Junior UAT Engineer
Location: New Milton, Hampshire UK
Salary: £20,000 pa
Hours of work: Monday to Friday 09:00 - 17:00( 35 hours)

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\*\*Please note we can only accept applicants within the UK \*\*_*

We are on the look out for a skilled User Acceptance Test Engineer that understands the need to meet all functionality requirements for business client end-users of new applications. We require the successful person to possess a full understanding of testing protocols and design, and has the requisite experience in Information Technology and a broad technical knowledge base in addition to experience of working as a User Acceptance Test Engineer.

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Main responsibilities:*

• Conduct user acceptance testing to ensure that developed systems satisfies the needs of business clients as specified in the functional and operational requirements
• Design, develop, and implement user acceptance testing protocols as the final phase of applications development
• Capture and test all modifications to proposed functional requirements
• Meet all project timelines and deadlines
• Document system / product functionality

Requirements:

• The successful candidate will be an ambitious junior tester or software testing engineer with a passion for IT and QA.
• Ideally you will have a solid grounding in software testing already
• Experience in deploying methodical testing to evaluate products and software quality against set criteria and identify issues
• Experience reporting issues in agreed format
• Experience tracking tickets and actioning as needed
• Experience conducting error investigations using exploratory testing techniques
• Knowledge and skills in defining acceptance criteria and test script design using common UAT formats
• Knowledge and skills developing test strategies and plans for UAT and FAT activities
• UAT experience
• Good organisation and planning skills
• Test execution of UAT and FAT acceptance criteria working with key stakeholder and business teams as required
• Working knowledge of IT based products.
• Defect management experience
• Attitude for analysing defect and test data to provide quality metrics and reports
• Detail oriented, logical mindset
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans, cases and progress reports

Other information:
Appello Perks

• 23 days holiday rising to 25 days annual leave pro rata
• We offer you discounts on everything from groceries and shopping through to holidays, insurance, days out, restaurants and more
• 24/7 employee assistance programme
• Family and friends’ discounts on our services & products
• Pension Scheme, up to 4% Company matched
• Life assurance 2x annual salary

If you are keen to find out more and have the necessary skills, please apply now with your up to date CV.

APPIND

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £20,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee discount
• On-site parking

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person