QA Analyst
Hybrid
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Full Time
18-03-2025
Job Specifications
About us
We’re a growing, funded legal technology company with a pipeline of products (see FinLegal.io), supported by a high-caliber investment and advisory team that provides opportunities, validation, and industry access. We’ve accomplished a lot with a small but skilled team, and are looking for a QA to help scale our business development, service delivery, and product teams, while reporting directly to our Engineering Manager, collaborating once a week in our Sheffield based office.
Along with an earning potential of up to £40,000, you’ll also benefit from working closely with experienced advisors and investors that want to see you thrive.
About you
You have an inquisitive mindset.
An appetite of ensuring quality in web applications.
Care deeply about creating good user experiences and have an eye for detail.
Understand the value of legal tech to help deliver important outcomes for real people and companies.
Highly adaptable and perform well, even under uncertainty and pressure.
Ready to work in a small and fast-growing organisation.
Willing to learn from mistakes in a fast high challenge, high support, low ego environment.
Main responsibilities and duties
Manual and API testing of a multi-tenant SaaS product in an Agile environment including cross-browser with an emphasis on mobile first.
Collaborate with senior tech and product-focused colleagues to ensure that a fit for purpose solution can be delivered.
Iterate requirements and your understanding of requirements with those providing them to ensure limited wastage by you and the team.
Produce high quality test plans, reviewing the plans of peers and direct reports as required, and as part of an overall approach to quality assurance.
Implement and advocate standards and approaches agreed with the QA function.
Ensure that documentation to enable easy on-boarding of new team members exists and is up-to-
date.
Essential Skills:
Demonstrable experience in software testing / development, including an understanding of the different methods of testing.
Strong experience in test design test techniques, test plan creation and test case management.
Experience of testing multi-tenant Sass product(s).
API testing using Postman or other tools.
Azure Devops.
Preferable/to be developed:
Experience, knowledge and understanding of legal tech to help deliver important outcomes for
real people and companies.
Person Specification
Qualifications
ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level certification (desirable)
Degree in ICT or related field (desirable)
Skills
An organised, efficient individual capable of working in a high trust, fast paced environment.
Communicate regularly, openly and honestly, using voice and video primarily, backing up agreements made with succinct documentation on slack (or company instant messaging system that is in place at the time).
Consider profitability, costs and shareholder value creation as part of your day to day decision making process.
Nurture your technical and non-technical team members and peers with practical advice based on good methodology and techniques.
Identify training opportunities and conferences for yourself and others to participate in/attend and benefit from.
About the Company
We provide an online portal and claims automation solution that converts more claimants and significantly reduces administrative burden. Case and practice management systems store data, emails and documents relating to claims. However… without significant time, expense and coupling with other solutions, do not drive firm revenue or cost savings through claimant self-service, automation and A.I. This is increasingly important given damages-based, contingent and capped fee agreements. Our case-type specific technology is use... Know more
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