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The Apteco team is about 60 people worldwide with a mix of skills across multiple disciplines. We have greybeards who've seen it all and apprentices who are learning afresh. What brings them together? They're all great people dedicated to producing powerful, useful, attractive software for our customers. We look for exceptional candidates who can bring enthusiasm and expertise to Apteco. We provide a high specification working environment in our office in central Warwick and support remote working in many roles.
Apteco's is used by many big brands to drive their marketing decisions,
including Everton FC, NEC Group, Greggs, Apple, Canon, Financial Times and Virgin Media.
Current vacancies
Senior QA Engineer / Software Tester
Warwick, UK (hybrid office/remote), competitive salary (£45k to £55k) + bonus
Warwick, UK (hybrid office/remote), competitive salary (£45k to £55k) + bonus
About Apteco
Our story began over 35 years ago, and we remain true to the same core beliefs today: creating and building industry-leading software to speedily convert customer data into actionable information.
Whilst the technology has changed dramatically since we first started, our ethos remains the same. We design groundbreaking technologies to help brands around the world spend more time focusing on what they do best. So while we're proud of our past and what we've achieved, we never sit still. We're committed to being at the forefront of innovative solutions and great design to help brands master their customer base and marketplace.
Role overview
We are looking for an experienced Senior QA Engineer to strengthen our testing capabilities and ensure the delivery of high-quality, reliable software to our clients and partners.
As a Senior QA Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, executing, and maintaining robust testing processes across the Apteco marketing platform. You will work closely with our Engineering and Product teams to validate new features, conducting thorough manual testing, automate test coverage, and ensure the reliability and performance of the Apteco software.
This is a hands-on technical role, ideal for someone who is passionate about quality, improving engineering processes, and test automation.
Key responsibilities
Quality assurance and testing
- Design and execute comprehensive test strategies for web and desktop applications.
- Lead and participate in functional, regression, integration, system, and exploratory testing activities.
- Drive test automation across the product, aiming to increase coverage and reduce manual effort.
Leadership and mentorship
- Mentor junior QA engineers and contribute to QA best practices across the organisation.
- Champion quality culture and influence product and engineering decisions throughout the development lifecycle.
Collaboration and communication
- Work closely with Product Managers to clarify acceptance criteria and deliver high-quality user experiences.
- Collaborate with Developers, Support, and DevOps to troubleshoot issues and ensure end-to-end quality.
- Participate in sprint planning, architecture/design discussions, and release readiness reviews.
Data and MarTech focus
- Validate platform features such as audience segmentation, analytics, and campaign automation workflows.
- Test integrations between the Apteco platform and third-party tools (social platforms, ESPs etc).
- Understand data privacy, security, and compliance requirements relevant to the Apteco platform.
Abilities and experience
Essential
- 5+ years of experience in software QA roles, including time as a senior or lead.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Strong background working in an Agile environment.
- Experience owning and executing manual and exploratory testing.
- Experience building automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with Playwright or similar testing frameworks.
- Ability to multitask and prioritise to meet project targets.
- ISTQB or similar certification.
- Able to work from our Warwick office at least two days per week. More while getting up to speed.
Desirable
- Experience in analytics, or data-heavy SaaS platforms.
- Familiarity with marketing automation, email service providers, or customer data platforms.
- Understanding of security testing.
- Experience with AI testing.
- Experience with Azure DevOps or Docker.
- Working from our Warwick office at least 3 or 4 days a week.
What we offer
- Competitive salary (£45k to £55k) + bonus, and good benefits
- Working at a company that truly cares for and values its employees
- Flexible working (remote/hybrid options)
- Opportunity to guide our testing strategy and shape our QA and wider development culture
- Work with modern technology in a growing, data-driven MarTech environment
- Open, friendly, collaborative team culture
We recognise it takes great people to make a great company. We care for people by giving them a productive place to work and supporting their continuous development through training, conferences, degree programmes, apprenticeships, and mentoring. We provide an environment where they can excel and leave them to choose how to do it.
We don’t clock watch. We simply ask you to fulfil your role and be proud of what you contribute every day. Come in late or leave early as long as you're happy you average your hours over the long term. You can make personal use of all the company’s facilities.
We pay good salaries and round out the package with benefits that include generous pension, healthcare, and parental support. You can stay at our log cabin or work a secondment at one of our overseas offices.
We distribute a share of our profit as an annual bonus. This gives us all a long-term shared interest in looking after our customers. What are you going to spend your bonus on? A car? A bike? A share in a plane?
Our organisation structure is drawn upside down compared to most companies. The directors are at the bottom supporting the team leaders who support all the staff. We draw it like that to emphasise the importance of the staff doing the real work.
We own a log cabin in the Snowdonia National Park. We use it for team offsite meetings, but it's primarily available for members of staff to rent at cost for their families. It's surrounded by woods and mountains and is a prime location for outdoor activities. Cycle the Marin trail? Whizz along Europe's longest zip wires? Bounce on trampolines in a slate cavern? All your choice!
We do everything we can to make remote working enjoyable and effective. Sure, you’ll miss out on the rounds of tea and the cake that somehow appears most days - but our 360° webcams still let you see everyone around the table, crumbs and all.
Training is available to everyone, whether formal training courses, attending conferences, on-demand videos, books etc. We all learn in different ways, and we will support what works for you to improve your skills and gain certifications.
Most people tend to join Apteco and never leave, which is good for development as all of the code we’ve ever written has someone here at Apteco who knows that piece of code.
Simon Holderness, Development Director, Apteco
Apteco benefits
Excellent salaries and significant bonuses from the profit share scheme
Five weeks holiday plus public holidays
Generous maternity, paternity and parental leave
An annual long weekend offsite for you and your whole family
Generous 8% employers’ pension contribution
Medical cover with coffee and cinema ticket activity rewards
Your choice of equipment – sit/stand desk, great hardware, software tools
Use of the company log cabin in a national park for life in the great outdoors