QA & Testing
QA & User Testing Recruitment
Ensuring digital products meet the high standards we all expect
A specialist recruitment agency in quality assurance and software testing roles lives by its own high standards and brings the attention to detail you need and expect.
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For Employers
As applications continue to evolve at pace, the Testing and QA specialist’s role becomes all the more important. You’ll want someone who understands the development cycle, is familiar with the latest tools and can drive your QA and testing process.
For Candidates
Your input will directly impact a business’s long-term future, so it’s important to find a workplace where you’ll quickly fit in with the team and that matches your personality, skills and ambitions while also offering opportunities to further your career.
Josh started with us at April 2023, previously working in estate agency and making the move into recruitment. Josh joins us to support with our Testing and Applications recruitment.
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It all starts with
a conversation
Before we can identify how to create the perfect scenario for both candidate and employer, we have to understand your needs. For businesses, this means defining what you want to achieve with your new hire. For specialists, we’ll go over your experience, expectations and priorities for the future.
Sharpening
the details
Finding a high-value match for both parties means everyone needs to bring their A-game. Throughout the search, selection and interview process, we ensure both businesses and specialists convey their value with clarity and honesty, so each understands and trusts what the other brings to the table.
Always there
for you
At every stage, our team will keep you informed, answer any concerns and support you through any challenges that may arise. Our role is to anticipate obstacles, eliminate them before you know about them or calmly advise how we will handle them with as little stress as possible. And we will always be on hand for ongoing advice.
Frequently asked questions
Quality Assurance and testing is for people who like taking things apart, seeing how things work and who generally enjoy making sure every detail and element is optimised and working as it should be. It’s a specialism usually taken up by experts with a bit of a track record in software development or IT support, and you usually get into testing through a sideways move within either a software company or a larger firm with their own IT department.
Not many people are fond of coding, and if you enjoy making sure software works in every way it should, then you can probably make yourself useful in a QA or testing role. From there, with experience, you could be able to move upwards in your own company or across to another place of work.
It’s usually a linear path from a Junior Tester to Tester, and then to Test Manager, where you would be creating and supervising multiple tests and running a team. With QA, people often shift sideways from a developer role. Actual roles and duties within these job titles will vary according to the technology you use where you work, and you may find you specialise in a particular field of testing.
A Junior Tester’s usual starting salary is around £20k, rising to around £50k for a Test Manager. This may change according to the type of company and duties, and it’s worth scanning job descriptions to learn more about the variances between jobs.
The main recognised certifications for testing are with the ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board, previously known as ITEB). They are a not-for-profit organisation registered in Belgium, operating worldwide, providing standardised qualifications at the various levels of the testing hierarchy from Certified Tester to Expert in Test Management, in core, agile and specialist arenas.
For a while, the industry has been moving towards automated testing – creating and using programs to run tests automatically. This can get quite complex with the number of inter-dependencies, and anyone seriously looking to further their career as a tester should be making sure they are up to speed on all the developments and working practices.
There is also a growing market for regression testing, making sure that new systems or versions of systems can still work with older systems and software.
Automation will be key as systems and applications become more complex, and testers will need to rely on testing programs they have created to handle many more tests than they would be able to cope with individually. With a greater level of automation, you will need to run fewer tests, while still being able to stay on top of the reporting.
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