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Ansys is the global leader in engineering simulation, helping the world’s most innovative companies deliver radically better products to their customers. By offering the best and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation software, Ansys helps companies solve the most complex design challenges and engineer products limited only by imagination.

We make great software that our users love. You’ll be working in a small team with a product owner to develop and drive our GRANTA Selector and GRANTA EduPack software products, used by world leading companies such as Airbus, Boeing, Ethicon Surgical Care, General Motors, Jaguar Land Rover, NASA, Philips, Rolls Royce and over a thousand universities and colleges. We are passionate about creating software to the best of our ability and work hard to understand our users need, working with autonomy but collaboratively on all aspects from initial UI design through to testing.

We are happy to review applicants that would require to work remotely, this must be within the UK.

What we do

We mostly develop in C# and C++ on Visual Studio and provide all developers with an MSDN subscription and a ReSharper license. We have a no-blame peer review culture, with the aim of encouraging excellence, improvement and learning. We use GitHub for version control, and mostly follow the github-flow model.

We work closely with product owners to define features and priorities, allowing us to get involved in understanding our customer needs and balancing them against development costs. We use Agile processes and have daily stand-ups and regular retrospectives to keep us honest and transparent. We take continuous improvement seriously: everyone’s opinion is valid and listened to. We use Jira to host a Kanban board, and show both that and our TeamCity build status on a team radiator.

Find out more about our products here: https://www.ansys.com/products/materials

What you will work on

Ansys GRANTA Selector/EduPack is a Windows desktop application enabling graphical analysis and selection of materials. We are looking for a tester to support our continued efforts in manual testing as we begin to create processes to support full automation.

Some of the things you might be doing:

• Design, planning and development of automated testing framework features
• Monitor, update and modify existing automated tests as necessary
• Manage, create and deploy manual testing
• Perform software product testing, including functional, application and performance testing
• Participate in code reviews

Requirements

We value a range of skills. The ideal candidate will have some or all the following:

• Knowledge of C#, C++ or other object-oriented language.
• Knowledge of test automation methods, eg BDD, Specflow.
• Experience in non-functional testing, performance, security testing.
• A drive for quality; in code reviews, user-interface, testing and our development processes.
• Experience in SQL Server and/or document databases
• A thorough and careful approach to work with close attention to detail and quality
• Familiarity of working with and continuously improving an Agile development process.

CULTURE AND VALUES
Culture and values are incredibly important to Ansys. They inform us of who we are, of how we act. Values aren’t posters hanging on a wall or about trite or glib slogans. They aren’t about rules and regulations. They can’t just be handed down the organization. They are shared beliefs – guideposts that we all follow when we’re facing a challenge or a decision. Our values tell us how we live our lives; how we approach our jobs. Our values are crucial for fostering a culture of winning for our company:

• Customer focus
• Results and Accountability
• Innovation
• Transparency and Integrity
• Mastery
• Inclusiveness
• Sense of urgency
• Collaboration and Teamwork