Graduate Software Tester

TalentSpa Recuitment; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000

Job description

Are you a tech-savvy individual ready to kickstart your career in the dynamic world of IT consulting? Do you possess a passion for problem-solving and a hunger for continuous learning? Look no further! We're on the lookout for a highly motivated Graduate Software Tester to join our thriving team in Milton Keynes.

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated graduates who are keen to build a career in our Solution Delivery team working to create, enhance and support great products that are critical to our customers. In return, you will find a supportive and talented team to work with, in a company that respects, trusts, and invests in their employees.

As a Graduate Software Tester, you will benefit from remote and office-based working, within a team of highly skilled engineers across various disciplines. You will be working in an agile scrum environment which adheres to scrum values, delivering significant change to our products. You will be directly involved in designing, developing, testing, and delivering great new features and improvements that the team is expected to champion, support, and evolve.

We are passionate about developing software applications that make a real difference in the energy market. We build platforms that provide pricing, billing, and supply management for large B2B Electricity suppliers, with business process automation, data analytics, and flexible integration architecture. Our energy and carbon management platform delivers great energy management tools with a mission to support customers to reduce energy consumption, analyze bills for cost recovery, and reduce emissions to support green initiatives and achieve net-zero ambitions.

We operate in a sector that is undergoing rapid change, with organizations aiming to reduce their carbon emissions and electricity suppliers seeking more innovative solutions for their customers. EDW Technology, as a UK leader in technology for the energy market, is ideally placed to help our customers adapt in this rapidly changing sector, as we move to a more sustainable future.

Graduate Software Tester Requirements:

1. You are interested in business critical, scalable applications using modern technologies, on a mixture of cloud and on-premise platforms.
2. You collaborate well within a team and are motivated to learn new technologies and understand existing software platforms, so that you can help shape them in the future.
3. You have a desire to learn and understand how energy retail and carbon management industries work, to help us build game-changing solutions.
4. You have strong communication skills and are comfortable engaging with a wide range of stakeholders.

The Technology:

1. Languages/Specs: Java/Groovy, SQL, Swagger/OpenAPI.
2. Interfaces: Web, API, Messages/Events, DB.
3. Dev Lifecyle: Maven, GIT/BitBucket, Jira Cloud, Zephyr, ReadyAPI, jMeter.
4. Testing Types: API, Web, Security/PEN, Performance & Scalability, Thick Client, Integration, Automated, Compliance.
5. Command line: Linux shell/Bash.

Graduate Software Tester Benefits:

1. £26,000 per annum.
2. Employee Ownership Profit Share bonus scheme (annual).
3. Health cash plan including family cover.
4. Employee Wellbeing Programme.
5. Life Assurance.
6. Stakeholder Pension.
7. Perks at Work Shopping Discounts.
8. Home office IT equipment provided.
9. Hybrid Working - home and office-based role.
10. Flexible holidays.
11. Cycle Salary Sacrifice Scheme.
12. Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme.
13. Company funded.