Lead Test Engineer

Lead Test Engineer Buckfastleigh, Devon £42,500 per annum Plus Benefits About Riverford As the UK’s largest independent producer of organic veg boxes, you can imagine that we’re no ordinary e-commerce company. We deliver to around 60,000 households every week and run 3 farms, 2 packhouses, a butchery, a vegetable wholesaler and a restaurant Every part of our company is enabled through technology, from the PDAs out on the fields to our website and mobile apps. We are extraordinarily passionate about our products, the ethics we demand of ourselves in their supply and the attention to detail we take in their delivery. Our high expectations are rewarded by getting to be part of a fantastic business with amazing benefits. We are based in some of the most beautiful countryside in the world, in a modern solar-powered office with all the best start-up trimmings: good coffee, organic home-cooked breakfasts and lunches, top-end hardware and obviously an arcade machine. We are employee owned, and all co-owners share our profits, because we believe everyone should succeed together. When was the last time you heard birdsong while working? Walked down a path and saw the wildlife while having a go/no go meeting? Ate poached egg on toast during a review session? Chatted with a stakeholder over an organic coffee? This is life at Riverford. What we expect of a Lead Test Engineer You’ll be passionate about testing and advocating for its value. You will adore picking out grammatical errors and relish making developers weep with your fiendish bug-hunting skills. You’ll be able to lead from the front as a technical authority, motivator and manager, heading up a team tasked with defining and delivering the test roadmap and architecture for some of our key business projects. You will be comfortable training junior team members and guiding them on the path to being qualified test professionals. Most of all though, you’ll want to work with like-minded and highly capable people to deliver quality products. About your role Your role will see you at the centre of several major projects. These projects pave the way for expansion at Riverford in the coming years and are vital to our success going forwards. We are about to start the deployment of a brand-new delivery and logistics system for Riverford. Your role will be to work closely with our supplier to ensure that the quality meets our expectations and to verify the new system in field conditions. Riverford continues to invest in automation projects to improve our ability to scale as a business. You will be involved in the testing and deployment of the software that drives our production line. This critical system allows us to pick and pack tens of thousands of items per day, and in the lead up to Christmas, it runs non-stop for more than 100 hours continuously. Further responsibilities include testing the integrations with our production, finance and delivery systems, co-ordinating work with the software engineering team and verifying the output from our business intelligence development team. What you should know We are less concerned about specifics and decades of experience than we are about capability, ambition and cultural fit. If there’s something on our list which is out of your comfort zone, that’s fine - but expect us to expect you to pick it up and run with it should you join us That said, here are our ideal skills for this role: Essential - Experience of testing complex systems integration projects - Pedantic - you have a talent for picking out grammatical errors - Exploratory testing - knowing and exercising the likely areas where bugs occur - Risk-based testing - we can’t test everything, so you need to be able to test the right things - Cope well with rapid change - multiple systems may be under test every day - Excellent communication skills - you will be working with anyone and everyone in the company - Presentation skills - delivering insight clearly and confidently - Agile / Scrum / Kanban - work just-in-time to release value quickly Other organisations may call this role Senior Test Engineer, Test Project Manager, Lead Software Tester, Software Test Manager, or Software QA Manager. What you get We reward our staff over and above the norm. We offer a working environment unlike any other and we are constantly improving. That said, here are the usual suspects: - Matched contributory pension - Life assurance - 33 days’ holiday including Bank Holidays - 25% off all our stunning ethical organic food and local partners - Flexible working options - Heavily subsidised, home-cooked organic breakfast and lunch - 10% of our gross profits are shared with the staff (tax free) - Free grade-out organic fruit and veg - Amazing organic coffee selections, from morning espresso to stay-late cafetières - BIG summer and winter parties, along with all year get-togethers - Multiple screens and any software you need - 10% training time and £1,000 contribution each year To apply for the role of Lead Test Engineer, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency. Working hours: 40 hours per week