Software Developer in Test
Remote
United Kingdom
£ 45,000 / year
Full Time
06-03-2025
Job Specifications
Job title: Software Developer in Test
Department: Onyx
Location: Home based
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £35,000 - £45,000
We’re looking for a Software Developer in Test to be part of our success story.
**Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain’s fastest-growing private companies.
**Great career development opportunities – grow with us.
About the role
We are seeking a Software Developer within our Testing function, to focus on developing and maintaining a suite of API tests and Mocks as well as contributing to the wider testing discipline. Both functional and nonfunctional testing will fall into the scope of this role as well as supporting the automation of setup and configuration post deployment. We currently write Test Cases in Azure Dev Ops and we have written automated end to end tests using Playwright, C# and NUnit. In addition to our core SaaS offering, we produce several role specific mobile apps with which you’ll be involved.
Key responsibilities
- A trusted and active participant in standups and technical meetings.
- Create and maintain API Tests both functional and nonfunctional.
- Develop Mocks of internal and external dependencies.
- Raising well-formed defects.
- Documentation of tests and test infrastructure / frameworks.
- Support the creation and execution of manual / regression tests when required.
- Staying up to date with new testing tools and test strategies.
- Providing feedback and recommendations
- Maintain API tests in ADO Pipelines.
- Impart skills and knowledge to others.
- Communicate with BAs, Stakeholders, Product and customers as needed to achieve goals.
Skills and experience
Essential Skills
- Excellent verbal & written communication.
- 3+ years experience in the implementation and automation of API testing and the implementation of mock services in support of test.
- Experienced in creating automated reports on API performance and supporting the diagnostics of any issues uncovered.
- Experienced in load testing and the use / production of supporting tools.
- Skilled in finding root cause of defects.
Desirable Skills
- Knowledge in database testing and SQL.
- Knowledge of testing services using a messaging solution such as Rabbit.
- Test Plan creation and management.
- Experience working in an agile development team.
Benefits
33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups
Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay
Life assurance: three times basic salary
Free breakfasts and fruit
Birthday surprise for everybody!
What you can expect from us
At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices, one of our AAR sites or working from home, we'll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.
From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we’ll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.
A bit about us
Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK’s 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.
We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.
We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.
Want to know what it’s like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:
Purpose: Make someone's bad day better
Values:
Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.
Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.
About the Company
We’re Activate Group - The faster, smarter accident management partner. Our brands service hundreds of thousands of motor claims every year from end-to-end, on behalf of some of the UK’s best-known insurers, brokers, and fleet operators. Our mission is to get drivers and policyholders back on the road quickly and safely after an incident, supporting them through every step of the claims and repair journey, while controlling costs and repair quality. Together, our group businesses form a fully-connected, data-driven claims ... Know more
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