Location: Belgrade

Salary: up to €30,000 per annum

About us

At Arbor, we’re on a mission to transform the way schools work for the better.

You’ve probably seen the headlines. Heavy workloads, constant change, admin pressure on teachers and staff at every level… sometimes it feels like this is just part and parcel of school life today. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

We passionately believe that there’s a better way to work. And it starts by giving everyone the right tools and technology for the job.

We’re building a platform and products we believe in - as well as a strong, diverse team of experienced specialists, ex-teachers and Edtech engineers passionate about making a difference to the sector.

Ultimately, we’re here to help make our schools and trusts stress a little less, and focus on what matters most - improving the lives of teachers and outcomes of students everywhere.

About the role

Our QA team is pivotal to Arbor’s commitment to deliver superb quality software to our customers, and our drive to make engineering teams more efficient.

We are looking for a collaborative and enthusiastic QA Engineer to join our QA team on an initial 15 month FTC and help us define test plans for major releases, and perform manual and exploratory testing to ensure bugs and issues are found during development and prior to release. The remit and focus of the role is to collaborate with the Product Managers and engineering team to form good testable acceptance criteria for each story, and ensure these are delivered as intended.

Core responsibilities

• Collaborate with the development team to define testable acceptance criteria for each story.

• Perform manual and exploratory testing across feature releases and record outcomes within the test management system.

• Maintain the manual regression test suite.

• Identify and record defects fully to enable accurate triage.

• Create and maintain test documentation, reports, and metrics.

• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in the testing process.

About you

We’re looking for an experienced QA Engineer with the ability to write and prepare test cases/plans. Beyond that, we’d love to see:

• Proficiency in test case creation and management.

• Proven experience creating queries in SQL to interrogate databases.

• API testing experience utilising tools such as Postman.

• Good knowledge of QA methodologies, tools, and best practices.

• Experience working within agile cross-functional teams.

• Ability to work across multiple projects and be adaptable to a fast-paced environment.

• Good/Strong collaboration and communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What we offer

The chance to work alongside a team of hard-working, passionate people in a role where you’ll see the impact of your work everyday. We also offer:

• We believe in supporting you to grow professionally and giving you the freedom to choose how. If you tell us where you want to go, we have a dedicated training budget to help you get there!

• We promote positive well being and as part of this you’ll have access to a choice of comprehensive 24/7 well being support services as well as internal Wellbeing Champions and Mental Health First Aiders.

• Subscription to O’Reilly for Engineering training resources

• Frequent internal Tech Talks, opportunities to learn from colleagues, and dedicated time off to attend conferences or training

• Spending quality time together is really important, so to encourage this, our social committees organise regular team nights out, including weekly pool games (we’ve also done go-karting, white water rafting, and escape rooms)

• Free lunch in the office every day

• We support autonomy and flexibility, and depending on your role can offer flexible working.

• We offer 30 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), part of which is made up of half day Fridays during the school summer holidays, a day off during Easter and a day off over Christmas.

• We welcome dogs in our office!

Interview process

1. Phone screen

2. 1st stage

3. 2nd stage

We are committed to a fair and comfortable recruitment process, so if you require any reasonable adjustments during your application or interview process, please reach out to a member of the team at careers@arbor-education.com.

Our commitment is also backed by our partnership with Neurodiversity Consultancy, Lexxic who provide us with training, support and advice.

Arbor Education is an equal opportunities organisation

Our goal is for Arbor to be a workplace which represents, celebrates and supports people from all backgrounds, and which gives them the tools they need to thrive - whatever their ambitions may be so we support and promote diversity and equality, and actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

Refer a friend

Know someone else who would be good for this role? You can refer a friend, family member or colleague, if they are offered a role with Arbor, we will say thank you with a voucher valued up to £200! Simply email: careers@arbor-education.com

Please note: We are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.