Senior Quality Engineer

About us

At Aptitude we love complexity.

We immerse ourselves in the intricacies of finance digitization, subscription management, compliance, and revenue management which gives us the power to make a real impact. Once we understand how an organization works, we can implement software solutions that provide the clarity, confidence, and control they need to drive growth and achieve their ambitions.

Aptitude has served the offices of finance for over 20 years, delivering financial control and insights to empower our clients to achieve their strategies and ambitions. We are currently serving over 75 CFOs whose organisations generate a combined revenue of over $1 Trillion.

We are proud of our growing team of smart, motivated and passionate people, and believe diverse experiences and perspectives build stronger teams and better solutions.

Headquartered in London, we have seven office locations around the world with clients across four continents.

What you'll do and what we offer

As a Quality Engineer you will be accountable for ensuring that the features in your team are technically robust, free of user-detected faults and performs at the required scale for our clients.

To achieve this, you will be responsible for making sure that are testing is sufficiently strong and that all the agreed steps of the SDLC have been executed properly.

• You will be expected to analyse, clarify, understand and follow business requirements and design test-cases that cover these requirements. You will also adopt a client-first view of the feature by examining failure modes that could occur and design a quality plan that mitigates these problems.
• You will be expected to take ownership of and continue your personal development and progressing on achieving personal goals. You will help your less experienced teammates develop through providing mentoring and coaching to those individuals.
• You will have a can-do attitude and promote open and honest communication. You will ask for and be open to receiving feedback from others and act on it accordingly. Equally, you will help give well shaped, meaningful feedback to others to help them grow.
• You will be expected to expand your skills, building domain knowledge about both functional and technical aspects of Aptitude Software products. You will actively share your knowledge and experience with others and promote and encourage a safe learning environment.
• You will work with other members of the quality team to help shape patterns and practices the team uses and promote a consistent way of working.
• You may also be expected to represent your team in client calls around quality matters or with members of our senior leadership team.

We’ll provide you with the opportunity to grow your expertise in an environment that supports you, your life and your career.

We’ll also offer you a competitive salary plus profit-related bonus scheme, as well as the following benefits:

• Private healthcare
• Life and disability insurance
• ShareSave scheme – ability to purchase company shares on preferential terms
• English language lessons during working hours
• Flexible working conditions and hybrid work model 

What we're looking for

A Quality Engineer must be proficient in the following Skills:

• Able to demonstrate proven theoretical knowledge and practical experience in the field of quality assurance of IT products developed preferably within an Agile environment.
• To be proficient in creating a plan for which tests should be automatically implemented and those which require manual intervention.
• Works autonomously taking up tasks and delivering high quality results, with only ad-hoc peers’ support & consultation.
• To be fully aware of the QA tools and solutions used in the project and at the organisational level.
• To be operative in using tools from the QA stack, be able to detect gaps in them and propose necessary enhancements where required.
• Able to independently analyse detected bugs together with their professional reporting in Jira and stack trace analysis. To be familiar with the bug life cycle.
• Can develop an accurate, complete and good-quality test report following best practices.
• Able to read, accurately interpret and create test cases for product requirement in a timely manner.
• Can accurately estimate effort required to complete the test session and/or the assigned task or tasks.
• Propose improvements to the current testing processes and recommend new tools/technologies.
• Has a good understanding of the functional aspects of at least one Aptitude Software product.
• Able to create and maintain QA technical documentation.
• Understands and evidences the key controls that form part of the company’s SOC process.
• Can apply commercial awareness to all aspects of the role, with consideration of our target market needs, industry best practices and trends, and cost effectiveness of processes.
• Advanced in English language (verbally and written).
• Communicate effectively with respect, integrity and empathy.

How to apply

Please click on the ‘Apply now’ button below, including your CV/resume and any other relevant information that will help us get to know you better.

Diversity and Inclusion

If you’re interested in working at Aptitude, but don’t feel you meet every single requirement of the role, we’d still like to hear from you!  A diverse workforce is an essential part of our culture, and we’re dedicated to ensuring that our staff can show up as their authentic self – safe in the knowledge that their differences will be embraced and respected by all. We’re strong advocates of supporting applicants from a wide variety of backgrounds which include different ages, genders, ethnicities, physical abilities and sexual orientation, and we work hard to build the confidence of our workforce through inclusivity, equity and ongoing training. So, if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement, we’d encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the candidate we’ve been looking for, whether it’s for this role or another.