Why we need this role

This person is to ensure that the capability we build for our 2 award winning B2B customer-facing Network On Demand applications is of high quality to continue to delight our customers. This involves joining our QA team and working in a fast-moving Agile/Kanban model. This person will have good experience of testing APIs, back-ends and front-ends using a combination of automated and manual testing techniques.
The team is small and nimble, and as a result has made amazing progress in the industry, but as we build new features into our applications we want to make sure we don’t accidentally break something. We work in a business with lots of other applications which are integrated with one-another, so interaction with our peers is key to ensure that our testing is collaborative, effective, and robust.
Sometimes we also have to test the water with new stuff, and so there will be a need to develop spikes/proof-of-concepts to evaluate tools and approaches to ensure the evolution of our testing approach makes best use of new technologies and techniques.

What you will do

Typical tasks and responsibilities will include:

• Understanding requirements
• Designing tests to ensure that requirements are delivered with high quality
• Performing manual testing
• Automating manual tests
• Working with other testing teams across the organisation, as well as those performing end-to-end testing spanning across multiple applications
• Documenting defects through written descriptions, screenshots and video capture
• Triaging defects and working with developers to get them resolved.
• Suggesting and analyzing new techniques and approaches to make testing more efficient and effective.
• Transforming how we think about testing so the team starts testing as soon as we understand the requirement, and not after we have finished writing code

What we're looking for

• Documenting tests
• Automating UI and API testing using a range of tools such as:Selenium
  Cypress
  Allure
  Serenity
  Cucumber
  Java and JMeter
  REST Assured
• Scrum tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps
• Git/GitLab
• Defect management tools such as HP Quality Center
• Oracle/SQL

Nice to have (with opportunity to learn on the role):

• Swagger/OpenAPI Specification API definition
• Docker/Kubernetes
• Messaging platforms such as RabbitMQ
• Microservices
• Node.js/JavaScript
• NoSQL Databases (CouchDB, Mongo etc)

Colt is a growing business that is investing in its people. We offer skill development, learning pathways and accreditation to help our people perform at their best, regardless of role and location.
In addition to offering competitive salaries and incentive plans, a range of benefits and local rewards packages are offered to staff. Colt recognises the importance of a work life balance.
Some benefit examples are:

• Flexible working and relaxed dress code
• Two days annually to spend on volunteering opportunities
• Access to a virtual business school for on-going learning
• Business mentoring

We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to making Colt an inclusive and supportive workplace
Colt Technology Services is a global digital infrastructure company which creates extraordinary connections to help businesses succeed. Powered by amazing people and like-minded partners, Colt is driven by its purpose: to put the power of the digital universe in the hands of its customers wherever, whenever and however they want.  
Since 1992, Colt has set itself apart through its deep commitment to its customers, growing from its heritage in the City of London to more than 60 offices around the world. The powerful Colt IQ Network connects 222 cities and 32 countries with more than 1000 data centres, 51 Metropolitan Area Networks and over 31,000 buildings across Europe, Asia and North America’s largest business hubs. Privately owned, Colt is one of the most financially sound companies in the sector.