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Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.\nWe’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of what we do:\nUK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner\n\n3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business\n\n10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK\n\nBest Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW\n\nBest Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW\n\nWe’re a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you!.\n Focused on improving operational efficiency, capacity and customer experience through technology. As part of our ongoing growth, we are seeking a QA Engineer to support quality assurance activities and help ensure software products meet agreed quality, reliability and performance requirements.\nQuality Assurance & Testing\nApply QA processes, testing approaches and quality standards across projects.\nDevelop and maintain test strategies and test plans aligned to project requirements.\nPerform manual testing and identify opportunities for automation.\nCreate and maintain automated test suites across digital products.\nPrioritise testing activities based on business impact and risk.\nSupport testing activities throughout the software delivery lifecycle.\nParticipate in code reviews and quality improvement initiatives.\nCollaboration & Delivery\nWork closely with designers, developers, Product Owners and business stakeholders.\nCommunicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nDocument quality-related processes, test approaches and outcomes.\nContribute to knowledge sharing and team development activities.\n Essential Experience\n7+ years' experience in software quality assurance.\nExperience with both manual and automated testing methodologies.\nKnowledge of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.\nExperience using testing frameworks and tools such as Playwright, WDIO, Cypress or Appium.\nExperience with Typescript and/or JavaScript for test automation.\nExperience using Jira, Azure DevOps and test management platforms such as TestRail or Zephyr.\nExperience performing API testing.\nExperience using Git and GitHub workflows.\nAnalytical and problem-solving skills.\nAbility to work independently while aligning with team standards and delivery practices.\nCommunication and stakeholder management skills.\nDesirable Experience\nExperience with K6, JMeter or other performance-testing platforms.\nKnowledge of Azure services and cloud environments.\nExperience testing microservice-based architectures.\nExperience supporting CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.\nExperience mentoring or supporting less experienced colleagues.\nAgile or DevOps certifications such as Scrum Master or Cloud Foundations.\nExperience delivering mobile test automation with Appium.\n Why Version 1?\nAt Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.\nShare in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits\n\nStrong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme\n\nFlexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance\n\nFinancial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme\n\nEmployee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies\n\nEducational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat\n\nReward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform.\n\nEnvironment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.\n\nAnd many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.\nVersion 1 is an equal opportunities employer.\nWe are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring including those shaped by disability and neurodiversity.\nWe want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact your recruiter at Version 1. 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