About us
Jadu is on a mission to create the world’s most accessible digital platform. We are committed to delivering high-quality, accessible software solutions, focusing on the needs of local government and public sector clients. We are passionate about our customers and team and want to facilitate open collaboration and sharing through the Jadu Library, driving common standards and innovation in digital service delivery.
Our experienced teams are remote based and are skilled in delivering global technical projects, working alongside our design and digital experts as well as our implementation teams. We’ve honed our skills, talents and prowess to improve digital services for all. We are a group of passionate individuals who believe in user-first, continuous improvement for the organisations and companies we partner with.
Jadu develop our software in-house, using the best tools and equipment available. We build beautiful, high-quality software, within which accessibility and user experience is very important to us. We share, collaborate, listen and learn together and we are looking for talented, passionate people to join our product development teams.
We’d like to hear from you if you are confident in providing your quality assurance capabilities in an agile web software development environment. We expect you to be comfortable contributing your opinions within a multidisciplinary product team containing various key roles such as; Product Managers, Quality Assurance Engineers, Software Development Engineers and User Experience engineers.
Responsibilities will include:
- Work with the software development team(s) to test functionality during sprints to a high quality.
- Collaborate with peers to discuss features as part of the software development lifecycle.
- Create and configure test environments
- Create, maintain, critique and execute test plans.
- Define, write and implement test cases (where possible from acceptance criteria).
- Perform manual testing where necessary, and build and monitor automated test suites.
- Contribute feedback and help the team to improve in an Agile/Scrum environment.
- Gather or create test data required for testing.
- Query data stored in databases and API responses.
- Become a trusted authority for QA, with a strong evidence-based case for why a release is ready to ship.
- Reporting, defect tracking and leakage analysis
Ideal skills include:
Essential skills:
- Experience of Manual and Exploratory testing in a web application context
- Excellent communication, both written and verbal
- Social and team-working skills
- Experience with continuous integration pipelines
- Good understanding of the software development lifecycle, preferably in a Scrum context, using tools such as Jira
- Experience of version control software, preferably using GIT, GitLab, GitHub
Advantageous skills:
- Experience with Accessibility, Performance & Load testing
- Experience with automation framework(s), preferably Cypress
- Experience with PHP
Reasons to work with Jadu:
We are a remote first company and also offer flexible working hours, giving you the freedom to plan our working day around our home-life commitments and preferences. In addition to this you will also receive; private healthcare (AXA), pension, personal training budget, 25 days holiday + bank holidays, wellbeing support, full kit (MacBook Pro and relevant software) and much more!
