Software Tester / Project Planner - Work from home - Great benefits too!

Junior Software Tester - Leeds city centre (directly behind train station)

Benefits of working for the company:

Salary Level: £25,000 +++ Depending upon experience.

Holidays: 24 days holiday plus all bank holidays

Purchase Holidays: Can purchase up to another 5 days

Sell Holidays: Can sell back up to 3 days

Hours of work: 9:00am to 5:30pm working day

Flexible working: Work from home

Life Assurance: 4 x death in service benefits plus 30% income for spouse until retirement.

Income protection: 60% of income for 3 years after 6 months illness

Healthcare: Option to join Bupa scheme (paid for by employee)

Pension: We run the default auto-enrolment pension scheme 3% company, 5% employee.

Schemes: Various other cycle to work, childcare vouchers etc.

Role:

A Junior Software Tester is needed as a permanent role reporting to the IT Service Delivery Manager. This role within the company will aid the development team on a day-to-day basis with development of new systems utilising the latest technologies.

Key Duties:

1. Working closely with developers during sprints to test each feature addition precisely to eliminate any potential issues at the development stage
2. Managing, planning and preparing tests in a repeatable format to test products at various stages of the development process
3. Logging all technical issues into the Team Foundation Server for review
4. Liaising with the development team to ensure all parties are aware of potential issues
5. Prioritising testing effectively and taking a risk-based approach
6. Attending planning meetings and assisting in providing test estimations and test planning
7. Supporting production rollout
8. Executing manual test scripts
9. Producing release documentation
10. With experience, providing staff training and overview sessions.
11. Project Co-ordination / planning

The person should possess the following:

1. Highly organised with excellent time management skills
2. Excellent communication skills
3. Enthusiasm for IT and technology
4. A good command of English, both spoken and written.

This role would suit an individual with exceptional organisational and personal skills from a general IT background.