QA Engineer / SDET (Newcastle)

Greater Leeds Area

10/21/2024

At MHR, our employees are central to our success and play a key role in helping customers achieve sustainable high performance. With a team of over 900 professionals, we work to make things flow smoothly, whether it's for large organisations or individual employees. As businesses face rapid changes in the world of work, our team is here to help them adapt and thrive. 

By focusing on the core needs of efficiency, productivity, growth, and impact, our employees use their expertise to deliver real solutions through our People and Finance platform. This system, which covers finance, HR, payroll, and learning, helps businesses run more smoothly and make better decisions in real time.

With over 40 years of experience behind us, MHR’s track record as a high-performance organisation is built on clear goals, a shared vision, and strong communication—all of which we pass on to our customers. 

MHR is more than just a place to work; it’s a platform for empowerment. Joining us means bringing innovation, technology, and teamwork seamlessly removes obstacles, enhances your skills, and allow you to focus on what’s most important to you- work that matters.

With us, you’ll grow, find your flow, and make a lasting difference in your career, your team, and your impact. 

Your Career

MHR is offering an exciting opportunity for a QA Engineer to join one of our innovative software delivery teams. This is an excellent time to join us as we embark on ambitious plans to grow our market-leading HR and Payroll SaaS solution. As we revise our quality and test automation strategy, you’ll have the chance to shape the direction of software quality and test automation for a large engineering department, all while rapidly developing your own skills and experience.

We are committed to continuous learning and self-development, giving you the space and support to grow professionally and take on new challenges. With us, your career can evolve alongside the cutting-edge technology we use.

Your Team

You will join a collaborative and Agile environment where we focus on team success and personal growth. Our teams embrace Agile practices, with an emphasis on continuous improvement, self-development, and teamwork. You will be part of a supportive and established QA community that values knowledge sharing and mentoring.

As a key member of your Scrum team, you will help plan, estimate, and manage Sprints while working closely with software engineers to ensure the highest standards of software quality. You will also have the opportunity to mentor less experienced QAs in test automation and share your knowledge to elevate the team’s capabilities.

Your Impact

Role

In this role, your contributions will be critical in shaping the future of software quality at MHR. You will have the opportunity to:

• Collaborate with your Scrum team to ensure software features meet the highest quality standards.
• Define and maintain the quality of the features delivered, mitigating risks and preventing flaws from being introduced.
• Provide fast, accurate feedback to engineers on detected bugs.
• Maintain and enhance test automation frameworks, contributing improvements to existing tests, frameworks, and processes.
• Develop deep domain knowledge of our applications and use this insight to drive continuous quality improvements.
• Make a significant impact by mentoring and empowering less experienced QAs to grow their automation skills.
  
  

Your efforts will help us build a better, more efficient testing environment, ensuring that MHR’s software remains a trusted and high-quality product for our clients.

Benefits To Support You Personally And Professionally

Alongside the opportunity to work with an incredible team and express your individuality, we offer a range of personalised benefits including:

• Access to over 60 internal training courses, professional qualifications, and cross-departmental mentoring and coaching programs
• 24/7 access to a GP through SmartHealth for you and your family, confidential mental health support, and paid sick leave
• Ability to purchase or sell additional holiday days beyond the standard 25 days and bank holidays
• Monthly employee recognition program and departmental awards
• Referral bonus scheme of up to £2,000
• Employee-led social events such as running clubs, football teams, book clubs, and bake-offs
• On-site subsidised restaurants offering a variety of fresh meals daily
• Opt-in benefits schemes such as private medical insurance and dental coverage
  
  

We value the well-being, financial stability, and inclusivity of our employees, and strive to provide a supportive working environment.