Automation Tester NEW

Horwich, Bolton (Northwest) | Permanent

About Us

TopCashback is the World’s most generous cashback company. Having been established in the UK in 2005, we are now the UK market leaders in cashback and still growing rapidly. TopCashback has previously featured as one of the fastest growing private companies in the UK for 3 consecutive years by the Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 and has been awarded Cashback Site of the year 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020.

Our worldwide membership is in excess of 20 million and growing. TopCashback is an ethical company and lives by the motto “do as you would be done by”. We extend this way of operating to all of our members, merchants and partners as one of our core values.

Due to expansion, we are continuing to enhance our IT teams based in our Bolton office.

The Role 

An excellent opportunity to work for an internationally expanding, commercial online business. We are looking for a Tester to join our growing business in Horwich, Bolton. Reporting directly to the Test Lead, this role offers an excellent opportunity to support the business and to enhance its testing capabilities. The duties will consist of mainly Automated Testing; however, Manual Testing will also be required from time-to-time, both will be utilised to support and enhance our testing as well as the successful candidate being given the opportunity to introduce new testing solutions where there is a business need. Your opinion will be valued, and you will be able engage in planning out new testing and work with the rest of the team to achieve specific goals.

The Candidate 

The ideal Automation Tester will have at least 1 years’ experience with Automating Web Applications and will be required to work as part of TopCashback’s Test Team. You will need to have a strong understanding of Software Testing and knowledge of Automated test tools. Ideally, you would have worked in an Agile / SCRUM environment and have experience of working with Development teams to test applications. Any experience of working in a C# .NET environment would be a bonus. As well as being a self-starter, as important to specific testing experience is the attitude, flexibility and passion to enjoy working productively with the test team and wider development teams to ensure quality deliverables for the benefit of our business and members.

Essential skills

• Web Based Testing using Selenium WebDriver
• Experience with at least one Programming Language, ideally C#
• Ability to write and execute SQL statements
• Version Control using Git
• Experience with JIRA or similar issue tracking product
• Familiarity with carrying out Cross Browser Testing using BrowserStack or similar product
• Strong background in Manual Testing

Desirable skills

• Using SpecFlow or similar Testing Framework
• Good understanding of C# and the .NET Framework
• Experience with using Visual Studio
• Understanding of Page Object Model
• Understanding of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
• Understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Familiarity with Automated build systems e.g. Team City
• RESTful API Testing
• Load Testing using JMeter
• Automated Mobile Application Testing using Appium or similar Technology

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• 23 days Holiday including your Birthday off & 2 Duvet days (Plus loyalty holidays & ability to purchase extra holiday)
• Flexible working hours (core hours 10:00 to 16:30)
• We would normally state the following – “Great working environment with relaxed dress code, Table Tennis Tables, Pool Table, X-box room” But only when we are back in the office. In the meantime, we can only offer you a great job in a great and growing company and the table tennis will have to wait a while…
• Life Insurance, Income protection, health cash plan and enhanced maternity/paternity
• Good transport links, free parking plus support for public transport users
• Cycle to Work schemes
• Growing Company with a global footprint and a family feel offering great career prospects

Due to current Covid restrictions, on-boarding the successful candidate will need to be done ‘virtually’. However we have adapted well to this and have all our employees working safely from home across the globe, We are in a very strong financially secure position – being a profitable owner managed business with no debt – that makes us extremely confident to continue to recruit and expand our operations in all our markets even at this time.