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QA Apprentice

Created on 22-05-2019
Location London

Description

Festicket empowers music fans with a seamless service to discover and book tickets and travel packages for music festivals worldwide. Our platform offers an end-to-end experience for music travellers, an efficient two-sided marketplace for 1,500+ music festivals across 40 different countries, and a network of 5,000 suppliers for accommodation & travel packages. In six short years, we have become Europe's largest music festival platform.

The Festicket Family is currently at 140, and we're passionate about changing the face of live music experiences. Our head office is in Camden, London with smaller offices in Berlin, Amsterdam, Porto, Nantes and San Francisco.

We're now post Series-D funded, and backed by some of the UK's largest VC funds.

We've been announced as #6 in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100, a Tech City UK's Future Fifty company & #80 in the Financial Times Fastest Growing 1000 EU Companies.

Join us on our mission in transforming the way music fans discover, book tickets and travel packages for festivals around the world.

THE ROLE

Festicket is growing fast and an opportunity for a QA Apprentice to join our Tech team has opened up. You will be working alongside a QA Engineer supporting our developers and product managers and our product(s).

This opportunity is perfect for someone who has a keen eye for detail, passionate about technology and loves learning. You will be working as part of our excellent QA team, where you’ll be encouraged to explore new technologies where value is evident, share your learning in our weekly catch ups/open workshops, and contribute to the delivery of a stable, well tested features to our users.

YOUR SKILLSET

  • Ability to communicate information to various audiences.
  • Ability to prioritise and focus on deadlines and deliverables.
  • Ability to think abstractly and view situations from differing perspectives.
  • Strong organization, analytical and problem-solving skills with great attention to detail.
  • You have the skills to learn independently and work efficiently as well as work well within a team.
  • You are detail oriented but can also see the bigger picture.
  • Stay up-to-date with new testing tools, techniques and strategies

OUR TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES

For communication and workflow we use Slack and JIRA.

Full stack details can be found here:

http://stackshare.io/festicket

Requirements

  • Strong organization, analytical and problem-solving skills with great attention to detail.
  • You have the ability to learn independently and work efficiently.
  • You are detail oriented but can also see the bigger picture.
  • You have a can do attitude, love to solve problems, take initiative and want to help do things better.
  • You have inquisitive mindset and revel in challenges.
  • You’re passionate about technology and learning new skills

Benefits

We’re a team of 140 located in an amazing the heart of Camden. By joining us you will be part of one of the fastest growing music / travel start-up companies in Europe, where you will have ample opportunity for career progression as we continue to grow.

We have a company culture which is very idea orientated and driven but also very social. It's entirely normal at 6pm on a Friday for half the company to be drinking together in the office & then planning to head out for a night out.

Benefits & Perks also include:

  • 25 days holiday per annum
  • 15 sick days per annum
  • Discretionary flexible working from home
  • Festicket workplace pension
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Festicket United
  • Travel season ticket loan
  • Opportunities to go to selected & partnered music festivals for free & all year round staff discount
  • Extra day holiday for your birthday
  • Free www.wagestream.co.uk account, offering great employee financial wellness
  • Management training programme
  • Free breakfast
  • Weekly delivery of beers, food, snacks, fruits and drinks
  • Weekly Friday drinks at 4pm on Friday
  • Regular team lunches
  • Fun monthly company events
  • Perks - free Festicket T-shirts, Jumpers and more
  • Value driven start-up culture

Benefit

Cycle-to-work scheme

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Free breakfast

Free breakfa...

Free tickets for music festivals worldwide

Free tickets...

Fun monthly company events

Fun monthly ...

Perks - free Festicket T-shirts, Jumpers and more

Perks - free...

Regular internal Ping Pong tournaments

Regular inte...

Remote working days allotments / work from home options

Remote worki...

Value driven start-up culture

Value driven...

Weekly delivery of beers, food, snacks, fruits and drinks

Weekly deliv...

Weekly Friday drinks

Weekly Frida...

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