Are you naturally curious, with a talent for breaking things to ensure they really work?
As a Test Engineer, you’ll join one of our product teams but rotate between the various products, ensuring features are of the highest quality from their inception.
What’s involved?
This is a collaborative role, focused on maintaining and improving the high standard of our product offerings. You’ll work with the entire development team to make improvements and build quality into the product.
You’ll work with software developers to identify risks in each release or feature, and adapt test plans accordingly. You’ll also design test strategies for new features where the interface is not obvious.
This is a full-time permanent position with hybrid working – three days a week in the office during probation and one day a week thereafter,
Who’s the ideal candidate?
To succeed in this role, you’ll need considerable manual testing experience using agile processes. You’ll also need to be an analytical and creative thinker, with some experience of exploratory testing, and defining acceptance tests.
Ideally, you’d also have some knowledge of platform-specific procedures such as running and viewing CI/CD pipelines, deploying code from branch clusters and creating dummy paths and pipelines.
Some understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript is also highly desirable.
You may also have:
- Experience of testing web applications and/or SDKs
- Data visualization or analysis/software development
- Performance testing
Who you’ll work with
We have four development teams, each made up of JavaScript/TypeScript developers, working alongside technical writers, test engineers and a development manager.
Opportunities to grow
Everyone here gets funded professional development time, with up to five days allocated to learning new skills – whether that’s at conferences, training programs or other related courses.
Be yourself
We want to build a fair, respectful and welcoming company, where everyone feels at home. That means taking a long-term approach to equality, diversity and inclusion – not treating it as a tickbox exercise.
With the help of our EDI group, we’re working to make every aspect of the business – including recruitment – fair, respectful and inclusive.
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Ready to apply?
We’d love to hear from you! We just need your CV and a cover letter.
Wellbeing comes first. Release dates are realistic and flexible - and we're never asked to put work before our personal lives.
- Julia Robson, Software Developer
There was a lot of trust in me from very early on – I was fixing bugs and contributing to releases within my first couple of weeks on the graduate program.
- Warren Fitzhenry, Software Developer
Three reasons to join us
Take pride in your products – you’ll work on high-quality, market-leading products that help make the world safer.
A hybrid work model – after your initial onboarding, you’re free to work from home up to 80% of the time.
Take a leap forward – grow your expertise with a fully-funded and resourced professional development program.
Life at Cambridge Intelligence
Our data visualization tools are part of something big. They help catch criminals, stop cyber-attacks and unmask fraudsters. The work we do matters.
Our people are part of something big too – all great individually, but even better together. From developers to marketers, salespeople to accountants, we’re a smart and inquiring bunch who love finding neat solutions to gnarly problems.
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What happens next?
When you apply, if we agree that you seem a good fit, we’ll be in touch as soon as possible to get the ball rolling.
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1. Phone interview
- Duration: 30 minutes
- With: our talent manager
- To check: you’re right for the role
- Preparation needed: review your your CV, re-read this job advert, and have a look around our website more generally.
This is an informal conversation to make sure we’re not wasting your time.
We’ll check if you have the right experience for the role and give you a chance to talk up your skills and achievements. We’ll also discuss your reasons for wanting to join our team.
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2. Panel interview
- Duration: about 60-75 minutes
- With: one of our development managers, test engineers and/or developers
- To check: your experience, knowledge and skills, and how you approach a challenge
- Preparation needed: we’ll set a task for you to prepare ahead of time
This is a chance to meet some of your future teammates and share your expertise.
You’ll need to do a task ahead of the interview, but you’ll be given the brief ahead of time to present back at the start of the panel interview
Don’t panic, though. This isn’t designed to stress you out or trip you up. We want to see how you approach the kind of challenges you’ll be solving if you were to join us.
After the presentation, we’ll ask you some questions about your experience and achievements, how you prefer to work, and what your professional development priorities might be. We’ll also try to understand how you’d thrive in our team.
We’ll leave plenty of time to ask your own questions, too.
3. Last chat
- Duration: 30 minutes
- With: Jon, our Head of Development and Nick, our CTO
- To check: your motivations and aspirations
- Preparation needed: none
At this final step, Jon and Nick will be interested to hear about your motivations for joining us, what you know about us and what you’ll bring to the team.
Don’t forget: it’s a two way thing
Ask questions, share any concerns and let us know if we’re unclear. We don’t do trick questions, and won’t aim to confuse you.