Job Description

About the role

About the role

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the ResourceLink Bespoke engineering team, delivering specific customer requirements. You will work closely with:


The Lead Engineer, taking ownership of the quality of software developed for the ResourceLink application. The Senior Test Manager in ensuring that Quality Assurance best practice and testing processes are adhered to within the team. Lead Engineers and other Test Engineers to ensure test cases comprehensively and accurately validate the required functional specifications of the customer. To role model agile testing best practices, in particular CI/CD pipeline automation.

Key responsibilities:


Design and implement automated test cases, in support of business strategy, in an efficient and high-quality manner. Review, maintain and improve existing automated tests, closely monitoring the team pipelines to ensure issues are addressed efficiently and effectively. Adhere to Company Policies, Rules, Regulations, Work Timings and Leave Schedules. Role model the use of Azure DevOps (ADO), ensuring accurate completion to promote continuous improvement. Appropriately flag any issues and plans to address to the Lead Engineer to demonstrate ownership of resolution. Respond appropriately and competently to the demands of work challenges when confronted with changes, ambiguity, adversity, and other pressures. Analyze test results and review test data to identify bugs, ensuring that issues are resolved before product release. Assist in regression planning by providing accurate effort estimates, create and maintain tasks accordingly in ADO. Review and monitor progress, manage any issues raised and escalate as necessary to ensure completion according to deadlines. Demonstrate a working knowledge of product functionality, industry testing standards and effective use of required testing tools and techniques. Ensure customer requirement walkthroughs back to the business are rehearsed and conducted successfully by the test team as/when necessary
About you:
An approachable, supportive and detail orientated individual focused on improving test quality. A passion for achieving excellence in technical process, product quality and reliability. Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis abilities. Experience in automation frameworks. Ability to work calmly under pressure, making correct decisions, and determining correct priorities

Skills & experience

Technical Skills:

5 years' experience as a team member in engineering for Senior Test Engineer and 3 years' experience for a Test Engineer Cucumber (minimum of 2 years) Java (minimum of 2 years) Selenium / Playwright Azure DevOps Gherkin Syntax: Ability to write test cases in plain language using Gherkin syntax, making them understandable to all team members Experience of working within the HR / Payroll software/service industry

Non - Technical Skills:

Strong test planning and execution skills Effective communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams Strong analytical skills to troubleshoot and resolve complex testing issues Attention to detail Transparency Ability to respond to change Ability to give and respond to feedback Ability to investigate problems and suggest solutions Willingness to stay updated with the latest testing tools, technologies, and best practices Ability to propose innovative ideas, creative solutions

Benefits & culture

At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.



Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:



Unstoppable together. Always learning. Make it count. Think scale. Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we're proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you'll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that's varied, flexible and hugely supportive.



We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you'll receive:



A competitive salary. Excellent career progression opportunities. Transportation to the office (up to 30kms). Casual, privilege and sick leave, plus your birthday off. Group medical insurance. Personal accident insurance. Life assurance. * A range of additional flexible benefits to support personal wellbeing.