QA Engineer

About Hex

At Hex we’re striving to improve the world through partnerships with responsible organisations. We do this by creating platforms that drive conscious, ethical and powerful change. We look to innovate both in what we produce and how we produce it.

Hex is a digital product and growth studio with a diverse group of incredibly talented people from all over the world. Our award-winning team is currently 34 strong, and composed of 11 different nationalities. We believe safe spaces where everyone can be their authentic selves are the key to a strong team - we welcome and embrace all identities, cultures, and backgrounds.

We work with startups, businesses, educational institutions and worldwide organisations to deliver impactful messaging, facilitate action and change the world.

About the Opportunity

Hex partners with organisations and start ups to help define and build their brand and their product, and their launch and growth strategies. We collaborate closely with our clients to design, develop, build and launch high-touch applications that change the world.

This role is for a key individual contributor to ensure the quality of our web and hybrid applications for our clients, as well as Hex internal and external projects. This includes developing and maintaining a comprehensive test suite, conducting both manual and automated testing, and improving the scope, ability and impact of our QA function.

If you love testing greenfield, web and hybrid applications for exciting new start-ups, then this is the role for you.

Salary and Benefits

• Competitive £35k - £40k depending on experience and skills
• Flexible working hours and hybrid working from home
• MacBook Pro with M1 Pro chip
• Hex Share Scheme and Client Share Scheme - to reward loyalty and performance
• Annual Bonus Scheme
• Bright and well-equipped office in Farringdon, London
• £1,000 yearly training budget + tailored training plan - growth is extremely important!
• 25 days holiday, plus 1 extra day for each year you are with us (plus bank holidays, of course)
• Perks such as Cycle to Work, perksatwork.com, etc
• Yearly summer and Christmas parties (ask us about them!)

As a QA Engineer

You will:

• Work with our Product and Engineering teams to understand and refine requirements and agree acceptance criteria
• Plan, execute and document the testing of our software using a combination of manual and automated testing
• Work collaboratively with Engineers as part of an agile team to test user stories as they’re being developed
• Effectively log, triage and prioritise defects using Jira
• Conduct regression testing activities in preparation for a release
• Maintain and update our suite of regression scripts on a continual basis
• Continuously improve the QA process, identify opportunities for automation and establish and maintain best practices and testing standards

Luke, our QA Lead, will be directly responsible for you at Hex. He’ll make sure you have everything you need to be successful in the role, including a comprehensive self development plan, mentoring and regular catch ups.

Outside of QA, you’ll be working closely and collaboratively with colleagues of all levels and experts in all functions, including Engineering, UX & UI design, project management, client services, and marketing and growth.

Technologies you'll be exposed to

• Qase / TestRail
• Appium/WebdriverIO, TypeScript
• TestFlight, ADB, GitHub, CircleCI
• BrowserStack, Postman
• Notion, Jira, Slack
• Web and Hybrid Mobile Applications

What You'll Bring

• Strong, demonstrable expertise in the whole testing life cycle, including knowledge of various test methodologies, definition of test plans and test scripts, test execution and raising defects
  
• Proven experience of testing complex user interfaces and applications
• Experience working within agile product teams, using frameworks such as Kanban or Scrum, and testing stories as part of a sprint cycle
• Experience testing API’s with tools such as Postman or ReadyAPI
• Experience logging and managing defects in a tool such as Jira
• Ability to assess the priority and severity of issues using a standard framework
• Ability to accurately estimate tasks and meet agreed schedules
• Strong proficiency in verbal and written English
• Some high-level exposure to giving & receiving feedback with regard for both emotional and technical concerns
• The ability to lead by example, seek to understand through active listening and questioning, actively address problems you identify and assume responsibility for your work

Within 1 month, you'll:

• Learn about Hex and how we work
• Have one-on-one's and pairing sessions with the people you'll be working closely with and get to know your Hex peers
• Dive into the world of the clients and products that you’ll be working with
• Contribute to the testing of several features, and conduct regression testing in preparation for a release

Within 3 months, you'll:

• Establish strong async communication rhythms with your peers and leaders, practicing transparency and visibility in your progress against areas of focus
• Gain a more robust understanding of the needs of your clients and products
• Understand and contribute to our internal utilities, toolset and products
• Solicit feedback from your peers, including other QA Engineers and teammates in your product team, and support your teammates through thoughtful feedback

Within 6 months, you'll:

• Elevate the work of the team and become a subject matter expert in your products
• Make significant impact for our team by being a key contributor to a QA led initiative to improve our software or processes to enable us to scale better as an organisation
• Fortify relationships with cross functional team members as well as broaden your connections across the organisation
• Participate in the interview process for other QA candidates

About Our Team

Of everything we've ever built at Hex, we are most proud of our team.

We believe that empowered and engaged team members do their best work. We’ll be giving you the tools you need to succeed and will be looking to you for suggestions to improve in your role, and in every aspect of building a company. We want to make sure we find inventive ways to collaborate, debate, and learn from each other.

To learn a bit more about our team and who we are, make sure to visit our team page.

Hex has a Farringdon based office, where everyone has a spacious desk embedded within your high-performing team with storage for you to use. We also have several spaces for collaboration, such as meeting rooms and sofas. The office is provided as a benefit to help facilitate socialising and collaboration, and we look to utilise it as a hybrid working space. We find that we feel more energised and do our best work when we have a space for collaboration, and flexibility for deep flow work.

Joining our ambitious and passionate team is only one of many great perks at Hex. We provide a tailored development and training plan and a yearly training budget of £1,000 to foster your ongoing learning through books, courses and conferences. We'll provide a MacBook Pro with M1 Pro chip. We also offer 25 days holiday standard, plus 1 extra day for each anniversary you have with us, and an annual bonus scheme.

Applying

Even if you don’t meet all of the qualifications above, please apply anyway! This description is a guide on what we think would be the perfect candidate, but is not a list of requirements. Everyone is unique and will bring skills and experience we haven’t thought of.

When applying, please include a CV or short listing of your skills and experience. A LinkedIn profile would also be fine. If you would like to, a cover letter explaining why you’d enjoy working in this role and at Hex would be great, though it’s not required and won’t impact your application. Once we receive your application we’ll get back to you with next steps.

Not the right role for you? Get in touch and tell us about yourself. We're always on the lookout for brilliant minds in all roles and experience levels.

We’re devoted to building a team of people with diverse backgrounds and lifestyles. We believe our success is driven by the unique perspectives, ideas and contributions that come from a varied team. We are all responsible for bringing on people from all walks of life. Driving equality empowers our team, enables us to innovate, and helps us maintain a more inclusive environment. We don’t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, race, military/veteran status, citizenship, pregnancy status, or any other differences. If we can do anything to provide a better interview, i.e. accommodate a disability, then please let us know.

Salary

£35k - £40k depending on experience and skills.