Cloud Engineer in Ware

Location: United Kingdom
Salary: £100.00 per hour
Recruiter: Y Corp
Job Hours: Full-time
Remote: Work from home

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About Us

At Y corp, we empower businesses to establish their own branded mobile networks with seamless connectivity, enhanced security, and complete control.

Our digital-only eSIM solutions eliminate the need for physical SIM cards, offering unparalleled flexibility and a sustainable alternative.

Join us as we break the norm and set new standards in mobile connectivity.

Be a part of a dynamic, unapologetically anti-telco company that values creativity, engagement, and cutting-edge technology.

Join us as we break the norm and set new standards in mobile connectivity.

A little more insight about us:

We are based in the Tileyard, Kings Cross, London

We offer a remote and hybrid working arrangement.

We offer a comprehensive suite of premium benefits and extremely competitive renumeration package - read below for more details.

Check our culture out below (quoted by team members)

Our culture and values - a few words quoted by the team

Innovative, collaborative, passionate, we keep things simple and efficient, we empower people, we value integrity, promote diversity and inclusion, we are always respectful to one another, transparent, agile and it really is all about providing the best service.

We are "funsters" and we love to make things "betterer".

We are progressive and modern in our approach, our philosophy is "what's important to our people, is always exceptionally important to us".

We really do love what we do, and together we are driven by our vision of reimagining mobile.

About the career opportunity

This is a key role in Y corp.

Working closely with Technical, Engineering, Development and other units within the company, you will be responsible for championing and improving the quality of our technology development and delivery, including the end-to-end testing, assurance, and compliance lifecycle.

Role Accountabilities:

  • Own and develop the execution of test plans, test cases, documentation, and every stage of the testing lifecycle.
  • Review artefacts for testability and defining overall testing plans and cycles.
  • Participate in the release control process to ensure that solution meets user requirements and all UAT exit criteria are met.
  • Manage and prioritise defects through resolution
  • Assist engineers in the identification and resolution of defects; monitor bug resolution efforts and track successes; compile all test outcomes in an organised manner.
  • Drive an “automation first” approach to testing.
  • Lead the successful implementation of complex automated testing solutions.
  • Continually ensure you are up to date in the latest industry developments, testing processes, strategies, compliance, and regulations.
  • Provide reports for management and stakeholders on development status.
  • Partner with the technical engineers and developers, to ensure solutions meet business and technical requirements.
  • Aid the development of functional specifications to help the production of quality of technical design.
  • Conduct retrospectives and reviews as part of agile and develops best practices
  • Explore and develop new technical skills and industry practices that add value to Y Corp ongoing evolution.

About You

Qualifications

Min 3 years’ experience in QA, Acceptance Testing in the Cloud

Bachelor's degree in business, mathematics, engineering, information systems, computer science, or related field, or, an equivalent combination of education and experience developing and implementing test ware from functional design documents executing against a schedule, using standard test methodologies.

Technical Skills

  • Previous experience as a Test Engineer or a related function is required.
  • Practical knowledge of Quality Management Systems (QMS)
  • Understanding of quality standards and regulations
  • Highly aware of security/cybersec methods and technologies
  • Excellent troubleshooting abilities
  • Quality Assurance certification is desirable.
  • Knowledge of standard testing methodologies
  • Proven experience in test engineering in a Cloud (AWS, Azure etc) environment
  • Proven experience of IAC architectures
  • Strong knowledge of functional, non-functional, and exploratory testing.
  • A track record of defining and implementing acceptance test strategies, test plans, test scripts and tools in an agile environment
  • Knowledge of SQL/databases
  • Experience in automated testing (e.g. Selenium, Appium.)
  • Experience with tools such as Jira.
  • Good general technical knowledge, including the ability to talk with technical engineers, product owners and developers to understand user stories and requirements, define acceptance criteria and generate test scripts.
  • Full software development lifecycle and technical expertise, along with software configuration and release management awareness.
  • Highly aware of security methods and technologies

Our Benefits:

  • 30 days Holiday plus bank holidays
  • Investment in your personal development and career goals
  • Celebratory milestones of your career and personal goals
  • Bonus Scheme
  • Private Medical Care - Membership of our top-tier Private Medical Scheme with Bupa, with access to ALL UK hospitals
  • Dental Care - Access to our private dental scheme, offering support with dental restorative costs
  • Income Protection - Enrolment in our income protection scheme, ensuring 75% of income is protected for up to two years in the event of sickness
  • Cash Plan Scheme - Participation in our cash plan scheme, providing the ability to claim back some of the costs of everyday healthcare, including dental (inc. cosmetic), optical, and complementary therapies
  • Life insurance covering five times annual basic salary
  • Our comprehensive benefits are supplemented by a monthly £100 allowance, to enhance coverage and access additional benefits.
  • Critical Illness Cover - Purchase Critical Illness cover, up to five times basic salary
  • Pension Top-Up - Increase your pension contributions
  • Family Medical Care - Add immediate family to a private medical policy
  • Extended Cash Plan - Add a partner and/or upgrade the cash plan policy
  • Family Dental Care - Include immediate family and/or upgrade dental cover
  • Our benefits package also includes various features and discounts on essential goods and services with a personal Love2Shop card, and access to further exclusive discounts on health, cinema, theatre and more!”

This position will be highly rewarding and lots of fun within a rapidly growing start up.

Learning and development opportunities will continue to enable high-performing individuals for a long-term career trajectory within the company.

Recruitment Selection Journey

For successful candidates progressed through to our talent bank:

Culture and Values Interview, with Suzie, our Head of Talent

Main Interview - Technical assessment with Joe, our CTO

Final stage - Technical assessment and get to know, Keeley, Our SQA Manager

We provide questions in advance and support any requests for reasonable adjustments.

No agency support required as we operate a direct sourcing model only, thank you.


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