Test Engineer – Integrate/ZCPS

Are you our missing ingredient?

The Zonal group are one of the UK’s largest technology providers to the hospitality industry.

Our products are used by over 11,000 pubs, restaurants, and hotels. Customers include national brands like Pizza Express, JD Wetherspoons and All Bar One.

If you’ve booked a table or hotel room, ordered, and paid for food and drinks, received loyalty offers, or downloaded your favourite hang out’s app, you will likely have used a Zonal product.

We are a family business with Scottish roots. We operate from our modern head office in Edinburgh to our Division in Staffordshire, or our Innovation Centre in Abingdon and hotel management solutions base in Cardiff.

• We offer a flexible hybrid working model
• Generous holiday allocation + Ability to buy and sell holidays
• Employer contributed pension scheme
• We reward our staff well with competitive salaries
• We give back to staff with our company profit share scheme
• Well-structured career development plans.

What you’ll do

You will be part of a cross functional team comprising of Test Engineers, Developers & Business Analysts. You will be a fully hands on member of the team who will be responsible for integrating Zonal product suites with 3rd party systems.

We will require involvement throughout all aspects of the technology stack. You will be involved in UI testing, API testing as well as writing Automation Scripts.

You will test and release software products, take ownership of continuous improvement within our Automation framework with the aim of producing products with minimal faults.

You will have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in software testing environment with the ability to learn an understand complex systems

Your main duties will include:

• Generating functional, system and regression test cases and procedures within agreed timescales
• Test execution at integration and system test levels
• Adding acceptance tests to our existing Test Automation framework
• Maintaining and improving our automation framework
• Attending review meetings at different stages during the development process with the aim of influencing stakeholders, reporting, and facilitating overall system quality
• Partake in review sessions including code reviews and three amigos
• Creating and maintaining test data and environment permutations
• Effectively logging, monitoring, and retesting all defects found during testing
• Escalating any issues likely to affect the project scope or timescales
• Having a positive impact on the quality of our products
• Build up our test coverage as our CI/CD pipeline scales to support our ever-growing product integrations
• Help ensure your vertical's releases adhere to deadlines while not compromising on quality.

Who you are

• Test experience on both Web and Mobile platforms
• Experience of adding tests to automated test suites, and maintaining these tests
• Experience writing and executing automated non-functional test scripts
• Experience of building and maintaining automation frameworks (Selenium Webdriver)
• Experience testing API endpoints.
• Database proficiency (SQL Server) or other RDBS
• Agile (SDLC) experience
• Excellent problem-solving skills to analyse information appropriately and find best solutions taking a balanced view to reach logical conclusions and make relevant decisions
• Flexible/agile in test efforts across multiple work streams whilst reporting efficiently
• Understand and respond to customer needs (internal and external) and exceed expectations where possible
• Knowledge of Microsoft operating systems
• ISEB/ISTQB Foundation Certificate
• Experience collaborating with delivery teams remotely (ideally MS Teams)

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience of working in a Continuous Integration and continuous deployment environment
• Understanding of browsers and client-side technologies, browser/application server interactions
• Experienced in writing / executing test cases within a microservices architecture.
• Knowledge of non-functional test tools such as K6 and JMeter etc.
• Knowledge of bug reporting and ALM tools (e.g., Team Foundation Server)
• Understanding the principles of source control e.g., Git, SVN
• Experience of TDD
• Database proficiency (SQL Server) or other RDBS
• Knowledge of Selenium and MsTest
• Knowledge of EPOS systems and/or hospitality industry would be an advantage

What we value

Teamwork, Innovation, Passion, Professionalism, Accountability and Customer Obsessed are the values we believe make us the company we are.