We’re an award-winning enterprise software scale-up with high ambitions for growth. Being recognised as Scotland’s fastest growing tech company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 awards three years in a row shows that we are on the right track!

Dayshape is an advanced resource management solution, incorporating AI and intelligent automation to help professional services firms optimise their workforce like never before. It’s built to handle large, complex, and ever-changing requirements with ease.

Our customers include accountancy firms from the Big Four and global top 10, and Dayshape is used in more than 15 countries across four continents. Our target customers are global firms, international networks, and large nationwide or regional organisations, if they’re big enough to have the challenges that Dayshape can solve.

As a company, we live our values every day and we're committed to making sure our friendly and inclusive environment grows with us.

About the role

Dayshape has undergone rapid improvements thanks to the incredible efforts of our Product and Engineering teams. As Dayshape expands and our team grows, so do the chances of defects creeping in. We need to maintain (and automate) tight control of quality so that we can continue to move quickly and deliver a great product for our customers. That’s where you come in.

You will be motivated to constantly learn and be energised by working in a highly collaborative environment. We are using Cypress for test automation and we’d like you to join us on this journey as we adapt and coach our developers on creating the best testing frameworks. Whether it’s manual or automated, functional or non-functional, you will advocate for the most appropriate techniques to find the issues in the most efficient way. In our agile environment you will find a highly values-driven team that thrives on continuous improvement.

What you’ll do

You will join as either the sole or supporting Software Quality Engineer on a feature development team, focusing on improving and maintaining the quality of the Dayshape product. Putting yourself in the shoes of our users you will be:

• Enhancing and maintaining our regression testing suite (manual & automated)
• Developing and maintaining our automation suite (Cypress)
• Adding to and maintaining test documentation (test cases, test runs in Testmo)
• Managing test data and environments (Azure, SQL server)
• Analysing and triaging issues found in the nightly regression runs
• Providing testing for client hot-fixes

Working closely with developers during agile development cycles, you’ll be:

• Testing new functionality, with reference to a spec and knowledge of our customers
  • Identifying, documenting, and reporting issues
  • Writing and executing test cases
  • Adding new automated regression tests
• Ensuring test artefacts are up to date and accurate
• Contributing to root cause analysis for bug and defects
• Involved in the planning & refinement process by reviewing feature briefs and working with the team to define good acceptance criteria
• Managing release testing for your team:
  • Selecting regression tests and executing them based on new features implemented
  • Reporting test progress (to the Release Manager)
  • Ensuring automated regression tests pass on the release candidate
  • Leading or facilitating exploratory testing sessions

About you

We're looking for somebody who is passionate about continuous improvement and employing best practices. You'll be motivated to do things the right way, while acknowledging the need to be pragmatic and adaptable in a fast-moving environment.

If you're keen to develop your career in Quality Assurance and enjoy working in an agile environment collaborating closely with a team of developers, we'd love to hear from you.

The ideal candidate we're looking for will have:

• A sixth sense (evidenced through your experience) that allows you to zero-in on the best way to break software
• Competency in UI, UX as well as REST API testing
• Proven experience in writing and maintaining automated test scripts (ideally with Cypress, though experience with other automation tools would be transferable)
• Experience in test planning for whole features
• An “always learning” attitude, and keen to share your ideas of how we can be better
• The ability to ask awkward questions, kindly, and to challenge and raise issues at any level
• Strong attention to detail
• Active listening skills, and effective communication skills across teams

Bonus points if you have

• Knowledge of C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MSSQL
• Experience in performance testing
• Proven experience of building and/or designing bespoke automated test frameworks
• Worked in (or with) the professional services industry
• Experience in defining and delivering a test strategy for a whole product
• Experience working in a fast-moving environment with evolving processes

What you’ll get

• Salary: £30,000 - £50,000, dependent on experience
• At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development
• 33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days
• Paid four week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement
• Private healthcare and rewards through Vitality
• Income protection and death in service cover
• Matched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme
• EMI options as part of our employee share options scheme
• Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service
• Innovation Week twice a year - a chance to experiment and work off-project
• Weekly All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication
• Time out of the working week for team socials each month, with a mix of in-person and virtual options: past events include hiking, family BBQs, online games, D&D, and at-home cocktail classes!
• Genuinely nice, smart people to work with, who are excited about growing our company

Working Details

This is a full-time role (37.5 hours per week). We typically work from 09:00 - 17:30 from Monday to Friday, though we can be a little flexible around this, just let us know.

We’re ideally looking for someone in/around Edinburgh, though we’re open to the possibility of this being a remote role (as long as you're in the UK). We're making the most of flexible hybrid working, so you won't need to come into the office everyday (unless you want to!). Our remote staff visit the Edinburgh office periodically for team events, workshops, and to connect with colleagues in person.

Join the team!

Equality of opportunity is more than just a responsibility: we believe it’s a huge advantage to welcome a variety of experiences and perspectives into the team. Diversity is a great asset and, as such, we strongly encourage applications from any background.

This is your opportunity to really influence how we get things done, and how we measure and improve our capability to deliver software with high quality in a scalable way. We're doing well, but there's lots more to do in order to maintain the high bar and pace that we've set.

Everyone here is growing personally as the company grows, so if that sounds like something you’d like to be part of, we’d love to see your application.