L4 Software Tester Apprentice

Level 4 Software Tester

Company: Zolv UK Ltd

Full Address: Avenue HQ, 10-12 East Parade, Leeds LS1 2BH

Weekly Hours Worked: 40 hours per week

Salary: £18,000 per annum.

Please contact Alfie on Alfie.Cook@estio.co.uk or call 0113 3500 333

About the company:

Based in the heart of Leeds, Zolv creates bespoke technical web solutions, primarily aimed at holiday operating companies. We do that by creating customer specific websites and have built our own in-house (CMS) content management system, empowering our clients to take ownership of their business websites to promote sales and visual impact to attract customers to their premium brand products.

Zolv’s team of 15 in-house experts work with our clients to define their digital vision, design, and engineer transformational products. Our work helps to solve business challenges for the likes of Kuoni travel, CV Villas, Albatross Tours and Ramblers Walking holidays, technology that moves.

Our culture promotes inclusiveness, we work out of our Leeds based office typically two days per week and our ‘space’ is reflective of the modern working environment. Just a short walk from the railway station and at the centre of public transport, we’re easy to find and connected to the Leeds city vibe.

Our tight-knit unit requires our team members to be adaptable but more importantly accountable for their work, to communicate with the business and ultimately, keep our clients happy.

It is our vision at Zolv to ‘continue to change the world by delivering innovative digital sales technology’ and our values identify what you can expect from the Zolv team – we are creative, innovative, passionate, experienced, responsive, dedicated and in it together with our clients. We have many long-standing clients and low staff turnover. We strive to make work enjoyable and challenging to encourage continued self-development and role relevant training.

Brief job description:

Estio Training have an exciting new opportunity for a Software Tester Apprentice with Zolv, a bespoke web application development company based in the centre of Leeds. Your role will be varied and provide a valuable output of checking our solutions match the customer’s vision.

Job Description:

Test Analysts have a hugely important role within our business and require a

broad range of skills. You will be assisting in the design, development, and execution of test plans and test cases for software applications.

You will work closely with the design and development teams to ensure that software meets business and technical requirements, as well as meeting the customer’s visual requirements of their website. This role will involve mainly manual testing, as well as reporting and tracking defects. The ideal candidate will have a strong interest in technology and a desire to learn more about both manual and automation software testing.

Your duties and responsibilities in this role will consist of but not limited to:

• Create and execute test cases that fit defined functional requirements.
• Manage test suites, ensuring traceability and reproducibility.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot faults reported by clients to establish incident Priority.
• Maintain relevant documentation.
• Communicate with developers and stakeholders to ensure complete testing coverage and progress to clients.
• Stay current with new testing tools and technologies.
• Participate in team ceremonies.

Qualifications:

• 5 GCSEs grades A*-C/9-4 or equivalent (including English Language and Maths).

Benefits:

As well as all the standard stuff you’ll get at Zolv (think holidays, pension, the usual benefits), we have a collaborative community which offers a range of opportunities and rewards for our people, as well as excellent career development.

• 5 days holiday + Bank Holidays including Christmas & New Year closure, +1-day holiday for your birthday.
• Hybrid working – laptop provided to work from home and at the office in Leeds city centre.
• £26 per month tax-free reimbursement towards costs of working from home some days unless you choose to permanently work full time in the office.
• Profit & Performance related bonus scheme.
• Annual Training Budget.
• Team Days.

We also trust our people to work in a way that supports their productivity, so we can offer a hybrid way of working which you are in control of. If it’s good for you, then it’s good for us, so let’s chat about what works during the interview process.

If you think you have what we’re looking for, then we’d love to hear from you.

Personal qualities & Desired skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• A detail-oriented mindset and is thorough in their work.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
• A willingness to adapt to the needs of the business, support others and their roles where appropriate.
• A willingness to learn and understand manual and automated testing.
• A desire to learn about testing tools and software.
• A willingness to learn about various testing methodologies (e.g., Agile,
• Scrum, Waterfall).
• A willingness to learn about how to create and execute test plans and test cases.
• Good organisational and time management skills.
• A proactive approach to work and is a driven individual.
• Experience working on multiple projects concurrently – preferred.

Future prospects:

The role offers a permanent role upon completion of the apprenticeship depending on performance.

Training to be provided:

Estio apprenticeship training programmes are delivered virtually by our fully qualified and industry experienced training team. Using their expert knowledge, we’ve purposefully built our programmes around the real-world use of modern technology, so that the skills we create can be directly applied in the workplace.

Throughout the apprenticeship learners receive coaching, help and guidance from a dedicated team who are there to ensure they get the most from their work experience.

Successful completion of this apprenticeship gives you an accredited Level 4 Software Tester, with training in how to:

• Ensure that the software used within your business operates as intended.
• Design and prepare test plans and conduct software testing as appropriate to ensure your software is fit for purpose.
• Collect and interpret the results of testing and make appropriate recommendations.
• Understand the software lifecycle and apply software development practices.
• Document and report test results.
• Store, manage and share test data in a secure manner.