“The Wise mission is to improve self-employment, for both the individual and the companies that engage them, through technology and services.”

Over the past five years, the Wise team has focused on solving the big problems. As a result, we have created a service that is unrivalled in the market of self-employment. The Wise team wanted to bring big company benefits to a self-employed workforce giving companies that use Wise a competitive edge when engaging their workforce. Check out our website for further information and we look forward to walking you through our current tech stack and vision for the future!

Our Culture.

Everyone in the Wise team is involved in our company's vision and success. Building the best products means we need the best team, we're really proud of the team we've built so far and want to continue that growth. We're looking for passionate and collaborative self-starters that like to get things done and know - how to have fun while doing so. In return, our team is rewarded, recognised and celebrated!

Remote working options for Tuesdays & Wednesdays with office attendance when beneficial for planning sessions and workshops.

The role.

We’re looking for a QA Analyst to join our growing Quality Assurance team. They will be responsible for contributing to and upholding the top quality standards of output here at Wise; across our products. The role involves working alongside other QA Analysts and Automation Engineers for all things QA on our diverse platform; web, mobile, DB and messaging platforms.

We’re looking for someone who has experience in:

• Developing and implementing test strategies & processes

• Testing tickets & performing regression testing (with the aid of the automation team) to ensure the quality of output before confirming approval of a release

• Relaying quality success statistics and being able to anticipate and escalate concerns where necessary to the senior team and sprint team

• Experience of working in varieties of Waterfall and Agile methodologies; Agile being the priority.

• Experience working with cross functional teams; front & back end developers, designers, product owners & managers etc.

• Experience using JIRA

• Ability to map manual tests against requirements to report on requirements traceability

• Confidence in one’s own abilities to highlight risks or requirement gaps to relevant parties

• Experience with integration testing web & mobile applications in conjunction with third party systems

• Experience in reviewing and writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans, test cases and acceptance criteria.

• Experienced in test documentation: check lists, test cases, bug reports, test reports, clear vision for testing requirements

• Experience with solutions to test on real devices at scale

• Understanding of tools for version control (e.g. Git) and continuous integration (e.g. Jenkins, Gitlab) and relevant quality gates that can reduce production bugs and incidents

• Being able to proactively measure and identifying bottlenecks in the testing approach, focusing on maintaining speed and quality

• Having excellent communication and influencing skills, the ability to clearly articulate a point of view to both technical and non-technical colleagues

• Have a passion, enthusiasm for and a deep interest in technology and software engineering

• A keen desire to constantly innovate and improve QA processes

• Excellent organisational skills, including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills.

The key responsibilities are:

• Establishing and implementing robust and consistent testing processes & strategies

• Effectively communicating the testing process, ensuring it is properly understood and supported by all stakeholders

• Helping to define and support the testing and release management process and ensuring quality is signed off before a release can go;

• Reporting key QA statistics and escalating risks to Head of Delivery

• Building strong relationships by collaborating with Product, Delivery and Engineering teams;

• Being involved and contributing to Agile ceremonies: sprint planning & retrospectives

Nice to have:

• Experience managing QA teams

• 5+ years hands on test implementation experience in a QA role

• An understanding of core software development practices

• Understanding of PCI compliance and awareness of ISO standards

• Experience with accountancy &/or financial products/applications (advantageous)

• Knowledge or experience of automation approaches

• Basic salary - £30,000 - £40,000 per annum, dependant on experience

• Company bonus (discretionary) - up to 10% of your annual salary

• 5 weeks (25 days) annual leave + bank holidays, plus your birthday off

• Flexible working hours and a hybrid work environment (3 days in the office, 2 at home)

• Monthly socials and team lunches

• Gym membership contribution up to £50

• Vitality Private Medical insurance

• Enhanced pension scheme - matching 5% from day 1 of employment

• Life Assurance and Income Protection Policies

• Employee Assistance Programme