Quality Assurance Analyst

Full-time | Remote Working | Monday-Friday
Office Located in Bourne, Lincolnshire

The Business

Since 2007, Point74 has been the trusted leader in food lifecycle management software for manufacturers and retailers across the food industry. As the preferred choice in the UK and with a global reach, Point74 revolutionises product development, pricing and risk management by enhancing design, profitability and quality for food businesses. Our unique solution digitises the entire food product development process, ensuring compliance with regulations and market trends. As a rapidly growing software provider, Point74 is committed to its core values of integrity, intelligence, innovation, humility, progression, and reciprocation for both clients and team members. We are extremely proud of our achievements and acknowledge that our success stems directly from our exceptionally bright and collaborative team. If you want to join us, we’d love to hear from you.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Quality Assurance Analyst to join our innovative team and contribute to delivering exceptional software quality. In this role, you will leverage your expertise to solve technical challenges, including API integrations, automated testing, and administrative tasks. You will collaborate with various stakeholders to document and resolve a diverse range of quality and support issues, ensuring a seamless user experience. This position requires advanced technical proficiency, strong business knowledge, effective troubleshooting skills, and exceptional communication abilities. As an experienced Quality Assurance Analyst, you will play a key role in upholding and improving the reliability of our software by applying your skills and insights within a collaborative team environment. While we provide comprehensive onboarding to familiarize you with our products and internal processes, we value your prior experience in QA and your ability to quickly adapt and contribute. The role can be performed entirely remotely, and provision of hardware will be made.

The Candidate

We are looking for a technically minded, intelligent and enthusiastic individual who will relish the opportunity to make a significant contribution to the growth of this dynamic business. The ideal applicant will be passionate about delivering high-quality applications, with experience in both manual and automated testing. While automation experience is not a requirement, familiarity with QA automation tools and frameworks is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure consistent adherence to QA standards throughout agile development.
  • Verify software development to ensure finished product quality.
  • Systematically record QA activities in agile user stories and backlogs.
  • Contribute to ongoing QA process enhancements through retrospective sessions
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams (business analysts, developers and quality teams) in agile development

Requirements

Essential

  • 3-5 years of experience in software quality assurance
  • Strong understanding of QA methodologies, tools, and processes
  • Ability to write clear and concise test plans, test cases, and bug reports
  • Familiarity with API testing tools and version control systems
  • Excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach to problem-solving
  • Basic programming knowledge, preferably in JavaScript/TypeScript or similar languages
  • Understanding of Agile principles and routines

Desirable

  • Experience with test automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress
  • Experience with security and performance testing, including knowledge of k6, BurpSuite or JMeter
  • Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and their role in the QA process
  • Knowledge of multi-tenanted SaaS applications
  • Possession of a Quality Assurance certification (e.g., ISEB/ISTQB)

This is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience working on captivating international projects across the food industry for the UK’s leading food lifecycle management software provider, used by 1/5 of the top food brands, including Waitrose, Morrisons and Charlie Bigham’s.

To apply, please send your CV and Cover Letter to hr@point74.co.uk with details as to why you are an ideal candidate.