Energy Saving Trust
Tester- Home Energy Scotland
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The Role
We are looking for a Tester to join our Digital Delivery team and support the Home Energy Scotland Programme. You will lead day-to-day test design and execution within your product team, working closely with product managers, business analysts, and developers from requirements through to release. You will help embed a shift-left approach to quality by identifying risks early, challenging requirements, and supporting functional, non-functional, and growing into automated testing, focusing not only on "does it work," but questions such as "are we building the right thing?" Is the user experience suitable?
The role reports to the Test Manager and has no line-management responsibility. Beyond your product delivery team, you will support the rollout of our test strategy, share learning, and champion practical, shared ownership of quality across Energy Saving Trust.
The Team
The digital delivery team is crucial to our operations, bridging the gap between user needs and technological solutions. Part of the marketing, digital, and technology centre of excellence, we ensure our products are both innovative and user-centric. This dynamic team plays a pivotal role within Energy Saving Trust, working closely with our product teams to understand both business and user requirements. They transform these insights into innovative features that empower our users to become more energy efficient.
In this role, you'll be at the forefront of supporting the establishment of our quality assurance strategy within your scrum team and wider, ensuring quality governance frameworks, standards, and best practice are implemented and championing quality throughout.
Our team thrives on collaboration and support. We value the unique skills and contributions of each team member, promoting an environment where creativity and teamwork are paramount. Here, your ideas are not just heard; they are celebrated and implemented.
What You Will Do
- Review user stories and acceptance criteria before development begins, identifying ambiguity, edge cases, risks, and testability gaps early.
- Design and execute clear, maintainable, and traceable tests linked to requirements across functional, non-functional, regression, smoke, and user acceptance testing.
- Manage defects end to end, including raising, supporting triage, tracking, and verifying fixes, with concise evidence that helps teams resolve issues quickly.
- Use risk-based thinking to prioritize test effort according to business and user impact, while maintaining test coverage and test assets as features evolve.
- Consider non-functional quality where relevant, including accessibility, usability, basic performance, security, and data quality.
- Work as part of an Agile delivery team with shared ownership of quality, contributing to test plans, release activity, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.
- Act as a quality champion, coaching and supporting colleagues within your product team and the wider organization to apply effective QA practices.
- Where you have relevant experience, contribute to automated tests – particularly Playwright UI /end-to-end tests and API testing – you will have the opportunity to grow in this area and help build automation capability over time.
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What You Will Bring
- Hands-on experience of manual quality assurance across web applications or digital platforms.
- Experience writing test cases, managing defects, and maintaining traceability between requirements, tests, and results.
- The confidence to interpret and challenge requirements rather than only testing against them.
- An understanding of modern testing, agile testing approaches, and experiences of shift-left.
- Clear written and verbal communication, including concise defect reporting and test documentation.
For more information, please see the job description.
How to Apply
Please submit an anonymized CV and cover letter, removing your name, address, email address, and any other identifying details. Please note, applications submitted without a cover letter may be rejected.
Who We Are
Energy Saving Trust is a leading and trusted organization, dedicated to promoting energy efficiency, low carbon transport, and sustainable energy use. We aim to address the climate emergency and deliver the wider benefits of clean energy as we transition to net zero.
At Energy Saving Trust, we don’t just offer jobs – we offer careers. For our people, being part of the effort to address the climate emergency makes working for us truly meaningful and rewarding.
Work Where You Thrive
At Energy Saving Trust, flexibility isn’t just a policy, it’s how we work. Most of our roles can be done remotely, and many of our people choose to work from home full-time. Prefer an office environment? We have welcoming spaces in London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff, and Hadleigh for those who want to connect in person.
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We’ll support you with:
- Generous holiday (25 days + bank holidays + extra Christmas leave)
- True flexibility in how and where you work
- Strong pension & life assurance
- Enhanced family leave
- Green travel perks (EV scheme, cycle to work)
- Professional development support
- Yearly wellbeing allowance
These are just some of the benefits we offer.
Want to know more about how we make flexibility real? Check out our Benefits and Culture page.
Reasonable Adjustments
We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive of and accessible for everyone.
If you think you may need additional support or reasonable adjustments made to any part of the recruitment process, please get in touch with recruitment@est.org.uk or call reception on +44 (0)20 7222 0101. We will do our very best to support you.
Diversity and Inclusion
Energy Saving Trust is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone can be themselves, with support to be their best.
We strongly encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with Energy Saving Trust.
We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and we ringfence a minimum number of interview slots for candidates who apply via the Disability Confident scheme and meet the criteria for a role. Find out more here.
You can find out more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion here.
To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels while maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.
Please note, that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this post. To apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.
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