This is a free 16 week training course followed by the potential for a role with one of our clients.
Title: Functional Tester
Job location: Remote, UK (1 day per fortnight in London or Manchester)
Description:
These job roles are linked directly to free education, and upon completion of our course, you will be equipped to start your new role.
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
- 1.5+ years of experience in a technology-focused role using Python
- Able to pass a technical assessment in Python, Java or Javascript
- Commitment to complete a 16-week, part-time course to develop your mid-level skills
THE ROLE:
Our clients are looking for Functional Testers to join their team.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Test Strategy & Planning: Define clear, efficient test approaches and strategies tailored to application refactoring and legacy modernisation.
- Artefact Creation: Create high-quality test plans, test cases, scenarios, scripts, and traceability matrices aligned with business requirements.
- Test Execution & Quality Assurance: Execute manual and/or automated functional, system, and regression test suites to validate application performance and reliability.
- Defect Management: Identify, log, track, and triage bugs and defects, working closely with software developers and solution architects to resolve issues promptly.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner directly with client teams, programme leads, and third-party delivery partners to ensure seamless alignment across all test phases.
KEY SKILLS:
- Proven Testing Background: Strong experience in software quality assurance, test lifecycle management, and application refactoring projects.
- Public Sector / Large-Scale Delivery: Experience operating within complex, highly regulated enterprise environments or large programme teams.
- Test Artefact Mastery: Expert-level capability in writing, reviewing, and executing detailed test documentation.
- Communication & Collaboration: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a track record of embedding successfully into client-facing teams.
SKILLS YOU'LL DEVELOP
- T-Shaped Skill Set: become the go-to person for your technical specialism in addition to building on your collaborative skills to understand and empathise with other tech roles and stakeholders
- Technical Leadership: you'll develop your technical professional skills across mentoring, teamwork, stakeholder communication, and technical decision-making to put you on the pathway to senior individual contributor or technical management roles.
- Agility & Automation: taking part in modern software development process, you'll further develop your Agile, DevOps and automation skills, deploying to the cloud.
- Innovation & Inclusive products: by building products with DE&I at the core, you will further harness additional techniques in the software development process to foster the development of inclusive products.
100% FREE LEARNING LINKED TO JOB ROLES
Just like all of our courses, the Mid-Level Accelerator is 100% free for all students. There are no secret or hidden fees, no payment upon completion, and no debt. We work with our partner companies to ensure this education is free for all learners.
Benefits - vary per client, but are competitive.
Skills Required
- 1.5+ years in a technology-focused role using Python
- Able to pass a technical assessment in Python, Java or Javascript
- Commitment to complete a 16-week, part-time training course
- Experience in software quality assurance and test lifecycle management
- Experience with application refactoring or legacy modernisation projects
- Experience operating within complex, highly regulated enterprise or large programme teams
- Expert-level capability in writing, reviewing, and executing detailed test documentation
- Excellent verbal and written communication and stakeholder collaboration skills
What We Do
Code First Girls is on a mission to close the gender gap in the tech industry by providing employment through free education. We’ve already taught more than 150,000+ women to learn to code and by working with companies globally, we’re boosting employability, diversity and social mobility, transforming local economies and communities. But we want to go further – our aim is to provide one million opportunities for women to learn to code and participate in the industry in the next five years, becoming the world’s first EdTech unicorn dedicated to women.
