Website Designer – Hybrid – London

£30,000 – £42,000

We have partnered with a brand new no-code website creation platform, allowing businesses to grow. Due to the frustration caused by clients having to make compromises to suit existing platforms, this company was created to create flexibility for clients to edit and keep updated on their websites as they evolve.

They are now on the hunt for a Website Designer, who can aid with the needs of their clients, as well as design for the company itself.

Key Responsibilities

• Communicate with clients to understand their needs and wants in designing their websites.
• Create website templates and designs autonomously.
• Create user interfaces and conduct user research.
• Brand and logo creation.
• Be proficient in creating no-code websites.

Key Experience/ Characteristics

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• A well-demonstrated portfolio showing previous non-code web design (eg Shopify, Square Space, or Wix).
• Proficient in Figma.
• Experience in ux/ui design.

If this is an opportunity you would be interested in hearing more about, please apply below, or contact Sophie.nobes@digitalwaffle.co.

Desired Skills and Experience

UX, UI, Figma

Job Description

Role title: QA Software Engineer

Role Type: Permanent

Location: Leamington Spa or Edinburgh (with blended home working)

At abrdn we empower our clients to plan, save and invest for their futures.

Through the expertise, insight and innovation of our team, we aim to help clients create more ways for money to make an impact. We set our sights on giving them more confidence to achieve their goals, and more clarity about what they need next. And we focus on delivering outcomes that are more than just financial – by investing sustainably to build a better world.

Job Description Summary

The Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer reports to the QA Practice Lead, supporting development squads by delivering software validation capability. Working with team members to enhance the quality of delivered software, this role has a strong grasp of software quality metrics and the repeatable tooling used to validate its behaviour. The successful candidate will have an engineering background across n-tier application architectures, a passion for building robust solutions, and the technical knowledge to bring their ideas to reality.

Working as part of the Digital Innovation Group, you will be shaping our partner-facing technology solutions and internal capability, working on a modern cloud-native architecture.

Key Outcomes

• Deliver software quality assurance as a member of delivery squads:
• Engage with Product Managers, Analysts, Architects, and Developers to understand the intended behaviour of software.
• Prioritise areas of high risk and develop automated QA solutions to validate software.
• Review unit test coverage and quality, identifying weaknesses and testing gaps to be resolved before code is merged into production codebases.
• Develop automated UI tests to drive user interfaces and validate user journeys.
• Capable of creating strategies for test data management across a variety of separate systems which can be used to validate requirements.
• Apply quality assurance in depth, using unit, integration, behaviour, and performance testing to holistically benchmark and improve software quality.
• Coach teams to write consistent, testable requirements.
• Work with DevOps team members to embed automated QA cycles in CI/CD processes.

Skills & Experience

• Experience testing distributed web-based systems built with Microsoft technologies and cloud, including:
• .NET, particularly Core using C#
• NoSQL solutions
• REST-based APIs
• Front-end SPA technologies (e.g., React, Angular, Vue)
• Automated CI/CD processes which include quality and security controls
• Gherkin syntax (we use the Vividus test framework)
• Git branching, policies, PRs and performing code reviews
• Work well as part of a team:
• Influencing and guiding team members to improve tests and code quality
• Take ownership of quality problems and deliver technical solutions
• Participate in Agile Team ceremony as part of delivery squads
• Liaise with requirement owners to identify efficiencies in quality control
• Familiar with automation:
• Principles of CI/CD pipelines
• Approval gateways and risk-based reviews
• Use of automation for quality management of a software platform rather than a product
• Azure DevOps and Git as a code repository, build, test, and deployment engine
• Fast learner, able to explore, assess, and evaluate new technologies accurately and independently
• Experience implementing complex software solutions for financial services / advice / wealth management customers
• Personable technical communicator able to encourage and motivate others to improve software quality
• Good verbal skills – ability to readily explain requirements, needs, and controls to others
• Good written skills – ability to describe tests in both code and document form
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills

Our Benefits

There’s more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around, including 40 days annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount site amongst many others. You can read more about our benefits here.

How We Create Value

Our strategic drivers are the foundations from which we deliver for all our stake holders: High Impact Intelligence, Enduring Relationships, Connections without borders and Future fit. You can find out more about our values here.

Our Inclusive Culture

We are committed to exploring the possibilities of working smarter. This means we’d like to hear from you, whatever way you like to work.

An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance or a reasonable adjustment to your interview because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability please let us know and we will assist. You can find out more about our inclusive culture here.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.

If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.