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Graduate Software Test Engineer

The Job

As a Graduate Software Test Engineer you will be positioned at the heart of projects, in a position where you can quickly take on responsibility and make a real impact across the business. If you like getting involved in the technical details, like being at the core of a delivery team, enjoy plenty of responsibility and want more than writing code all day then this is the job for you!

You will recognise opportunities for improvement within yourself, your team and the department and deliver innovative changes that take PRG forward.

Build good rapport with Developers, reporting defects to them and influencing fixes. You will work closely with Project Managers to report plans and progress. You will develop good relationships with other RM departments (Product Managers, Support Engineers, Education Consultants) drawing on their expertise to enable your success.

Work with the project team to design a testing strategy that gives confidence in the software.

Plan the testing, plan and build the test environments, create test cases, execute test cases using dynamic testing techniques, detect and log defects and report progress and results to the project team.

From design and through each iteration, work with the project team to ensure that the software meets requirements.

Supervise the day-to-day work of testers within your project both in our UK and India offices.

Visits to India (typically 2 to 3 weeks, but potentially up to 3 months).

The Person

You will receive a thorough induction and ongoing product and technical skills training. As well as all the technical and non-technical training, there will be on the job coaching which will involve working closely with your team and your mentor.

In partnership with your manager, you’ll agree a personalised training and development plan.

Within the first few months you’ll be out on site, spending a couple of days with a network manager and in the classroom to really understand the products we sell, and how we make a real difference in schools.

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