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The Zonal group are one of the UK’s largest technology providers to the hospitality industry. Their 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. This company invests around 15% of their turnover in R&D each year to ensure that their systems continue to deliver optimum performance, efficiency and insight.

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

They offer flexible working

Generous holiday allocation Ability to buy and sell holidays

Employer contributed pension scheme

They reward their staff well with competitive salaries

They give back to staff with their company profit share scheme

Well-structured career development plans.

What you’ll do

You’ll be an experienced Software Tester looking for a mainly hands-on tester role, who is familiar with Agile & CI/CD and keen to implement shift left testing practices.

As a member of the Engage platform, you will be working to modernise existing products and creating new products in Zonal’s suite of applications and services for the hospitality industry.

As part of the role, you will be driving the QA processes within the team, selecting the automation frameworks and tooling, while mentoring developers and testers in using these tool sets.

You will have worked in agile teams and display strong analytical skills to drive forward refinement considering business rules, formal test techniques and security.

You will be looking to implement pipelines utilising Azure cloud infrastructure and DevOps for the deployment of automation test suites.

Your key responsibilities will involve: -

Creating and owning efficient test strategies that provide high amounts of coverage for the best value. Using your existing experience to confidently determine suitable test coverage based on risk.

Taking responsibility for creating, maintaining, and deploying automated test suites for functional, system and regression test cases, whilst being embedded within the delivery team.

Driving a shift left approach within the development team and assisting in building a culture of quality being owned by all team members.

Who you are

Key skills they'd like you to have: -

up to 5 years’ experience

Strong programming experience in C#

Strong communication, co-ordination and prioritisation skills to structure and manage test processes and team workload.

Confident in selecting and implementing automation frameworks and tools

Confident in mentoring developers and testers in automation frameworks and tooling.

Extensive experience of API testing

ISEB/ISTQB Foundation Certificate

Nice to have:

Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines (with YAML files)

Docker

Azure Cloud

Experience in End-to-End Automation – Playwright, Cypress, Selenium.

What they value

Teamwork, Innovation, Passion, Professionalism, Accountability and Customer Obsessed are the values they believe make them the company they are. They're looking for someone who understands great culture and will help them shape it as it evolves.

They are going on an exciting journey, and they need more like-minded travellers to help them get there!