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Software Test Engineer

Permanent  – Leicester, United Kingdom

We are looking for a talented and passionate Software Tester to join our existing development team working on strategic products.

As a software tester, you will participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle as part of an Agile development team. Your focus will be on making the team more efficient and productive through quality software best practices. In this position, you will be given the opportunity to design, create, build, and maintain test suites.

This position is predominantly a remote position, but with the flexibility to occasionally come to our offices in Desford, near Leicester, where appropriate, for meetings, design sessions, training etc.

Required experience/What we are looking for:

  • Industry experience designing and executing test strategies as part of an Agile Scrum team
  • Solid quality assurance background with a desire to improve and expand your skillset
  • SQL experience, preferably using Microsoft SQL Server
  • Experience with defect tracking software (preferably JIRA)
  • Experience with resilient enterprise software
  • Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
  • Experience being the voice of quality by uncovering issues
  • Experience owning and being accountable for test strategy, test planning, and test execution
  • Experience debugging application through logs, stack traces and test results

Desirable experience:

  • Load test experience
  • Experience with automated testing tools (preferably Selenium WebdriverIO, TestComplete)

Specific duties and responsibilities:

  • Responsible for design and execution of test strategies as part of an Agile Scrum team
  • Participate in product design reviews to provide input on testability of functional requirements, product designs, and estimating/planning
  • Translate user stories and requirements to test cases
  • Develop and support the testing of product features throughout the entire development cycle
  • Own and be accountable for test strategy, test planning, and test execution
  • Debug application through logs, stack traces and test results
  • Work closely with development teams to drive root cause analysis, feeding that knowledge into automated quality processes effectively
  • Drive adoption of best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability
  • Collaborate with engineers within Agile Scrum team, reviewing developer unit/integration tests
  • Collaborate with engineers across the organisation, keeping current on the company’s latest developments in the area of testing. Learning and sharing ideas
  • Research emerging test tools, trends, and methodologies – enhancing existing systems and processes

Front-end Developer 

Permanent  – Leicester, United Kingdom

We are looking for talented and passionate Front-end Developers to join our existing development team working on strategic products.

As a front-end developer, you will participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle as part of an Agile development team. You will be accountable for delivering exciting new strategic visions within the company, whether it be extending or revolutionising our existing product suite.

What are we looking for?

  • Solid front-end development background with a desire to improve and expand your skillset
  • Industry experience designing and creating complex solutions as part of an Agile Scrum team
  • JavaScript experience, preferably using modern JavaScript frameworks
  • Passionate about the community – researching emerging technology stack, tools, trends, and methodologies
  • Drive adoption of best practices in code health and maintainability

Role and Responsibilities

  • Responsible for best practices of front-end application design and development
  • Building and maintaining unit test suites
  • Affective utilisation of design patterns
  • Identification of performance issues – tuning accordingly
  • Work closely with peers to define coding standards
  • Identify and resolution of code smells
  • Works well under pressure and to strict deadlines
  • Prioritisation of own workload
  • Effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
  • Peer code reviews
  • Coaching and mentoring of lower grade developers
  • Team player
  • Highly self-motivated
  • Collaborate with engineers across the organisation, continuously re-evaluating tooling and best practises with the company – Learning and sharing ideas
  • Research emerging tools, trends, and methodologies – enhancing existing systems and processes

Required experience

  • Experience with JavaScript frameworks (preferable ReactJs)
  • Experience with IIS
  • Experience working with multi-threading application
  • Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment
  • Experience with defect tracking software (preferably JIRA)
  • Experience with resilient enterprise software
  • Experience debugging application through logs and stack traces

Desirable experience

  • Experience with C#, Web Services (REST, SOAP etc..)
  • Infrastructure knowledge
  • Cloud based architecture (preferably Microsoft Azure)

So, you’re thinking of working at 3tc Software?

We’re on the lookout for talented, passionate, hard-working, and interesting people to join our Team.

If you are looking for a position with us we’ve put some information together that will help you decide if you want to work here, and on what the interview process will be.

I hope to hear from you soon.

Rachel Todd, HR Manager

 

Who are 3tc Software?

We are a well-established, profitable company of 30 years

Small, owner managed business (45 people)

A mix of experienced people and fresh new people

We develop, supply, and deliver a range of products to the public and private sector markets where communication and information play a vital role in providing best value services.

We are one of the leading providers of fully integrated software applications to the emergency services and, more recently, operational security teams.

Products include dispatching systems, mobile solutions, incident management and incident recording software. We also offer add on services and hardware through our partners

Our products help make the world a safer place, in our little way

We work hard in focussed teams, but we like to have fun too

What sort of person are you?

Favour collaboration and sharing over solo working

Enjoy life, having fun, and interacting with colleagues, but know when to get your head down and focus

Love learning new techniques and continually improving

You are a smarter than the average person

You love to get things done and move on to the next thing

You know how to balance work and life

What we offer

Contributory government workplace pension scheme

25 days holiday per annum + bank holidays (three or four days fixed typically for Christmas / New Year shut down). Flexibility about when you take your holiday

An option of buying up to an additional five days holiday per year

Flexible working – core hours between 0900 and 1600, we are happy to discuss flexibility to suit individual travel arrangements

Excellent opportunities for personal development & progression

Employee Assistance Programme

Friendly, collaborative, and supportive culture

Working environment

Modern, stylish working environment

Three 22” displays (typically) with monitor arms

Pool table (and league), darts board and foosball table

Snack corner

Monthly lunchtime get together for all staff with food provided (cooked by employees!)

Friendly place to work in a great location

Plenty of FREE on-site parking

Smart/Casual dress code

 

What is the interview process?

It is really important for us to find out if you are the right person for our business, and for you to find out if we are right for you!

We are always looking for great people, so we treat you as an individual. We don’t interview people en-masse.

 

Here is our typical process: –

CV

Submit your CV to us. You get bonus points for a covering letter.

If your CV is generic, acronym soup, hard to read or has spelling and grammar mistakes it unfortunately goes straight on the ‘No’ pile.

Make sure you tell us about you, the things you have done and why you are a good fit.

The telephone interview

If your CV and covering letter grabs our attention, one of us will call you at a convenient time and talk to you for 15-30 minutes.

We’ll ask you about you, your work history and what makes you tick.

There’ll be some exploration of your experiences, and perhaps a dive into one or more topics to see if you know your stuff.

This is also chance for you to ask us some questions.

We’ll see if you are a good fit for the business.

The face to face

If we like what we’ve heard in the telephone interview, we’ll invite you to our offices for a face to face interview. This will typically last between one to four hours, depending on what job role you have applied for.

You should come dressed smart, but casual. We don’t expect you to get suited and booted (this is not a trick). We’ll be dressed casually. We want you to be relaxed, like if you were actually at work.

We’ll talk through your experiences, and we’ll expect you to talk in great detail about your work.

The interview is a discussion, not a grilling. We expect you to challenge us too!

You’ll meet some members of the team, see where we work and what our set up is.

Typically at this stage, we’ll decide within 24-48 hours of whether you are the right person for the position and offer you the role. We may even invite you back for another interview.

So, if you like what you have read and think that you are the type of person that we are looking for and enjoy a challenge, we look forward to hearing from you.

Equality and Diversity

We recognise that an inclusive and diverse workplace is vitally important – where all employees feel respected, valued, and able to achieve their full potential. Not only does it inspire creativity and collaboration, but it’s also good for business. We celebrate our differences and believe our diverse skills, abilities and perspectives strengthen our culture and our overall performance.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people.

We are making a difference in the world you live in, come and be part of it!

Please contact Rachel Todd, HR & Payroll Manager for information regarding our current vacancies at:     rachel.todd@3tcsoftware.com

(No recruitment agencies please as we already have a preferred supplier list)

 

 

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