Careers

• Management of select accounts
  • Ensure annual revenue from existing software subscriptions
  • Deliver additional revenue from sale of professional service days and/or new software products
• Win new business
  • Through the completion of local authority tender responses
  • Through the qualification of sales leads, creation of sales proposals and subsequent closing of deals
  • Through sector specific marketing activity including networking & event attendance
• Report on client/prospect software & consultancy requirements
  • Relay feedback and intel into internal marketing & product development processes

Reporting to

• Managing Director
  • Working closely with UK New Business Sales Director and Director of Client Services.

And working closely with

• Products team
• Finance team
• Marketing team

Essential

• Work experience: 5+ years working in the UK local authority sector either as a local government employee or for a supplier to local government
• Bid writing/tender response experience and proven skills
• Excellent verbal and written English
• Experience working within a distributed team
• Good working knowledge of public sector procurement processes
• Understanding of latest public sector polices and initiatives
• Computer literate with extensive experience of:
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Excel

Desirable

• Work experience: Preferably within waste & recycling collections and/or street cleansing and/or winter maintenance operations
• Training in tender response writing/bid writing
• Training in negotiation skills
• Training in consultative selling techniques
• Relevant industry qualifications
  • Environmental Services
  • Local Government
• User of desktop and mobile software applications related to waste & recycling and/or route optimisation
• Experience in the application of AI, specifically ChatGPT and/or Copilot, to internal sales & marketing processes
• Full UK driving Licence

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A key focus of the role is transitioning existing manual test processes into scalable automated frameworks, using tools such as Playwright to improve efficiency, coverage and consistency of testing.

Working closely with the software development team and the product management team, the successful candidate will contribute to enhancing overall testing practices and product quality. They will be responsible for maintaining test documentation, scripts and repositories, while continuously identifying opportunities for improvement.

The role requires a detail-oriented individual with strong communication skills, capable of collaborating across teams and adapting to both field based and office based testing environments, supported by ISTQB certification and experience in automated testing

Key Duties:

• Transition manual test processes to automated frameworks (e.g. Playwright) and expand automated test coverage
• Execute and maintain functional and non-functional test cases for in-cab navigation (drive testing) and back-office systems
• Maintain and update test documentation, test repositories and automation scripts
• Mentor and upskill product and development teams in testing best practices and automation design
• Collaborate with development and QA teams to improve overall testing practices and product quality
• Work with colleagues to define appropriate acceptance criteria for testing

Essential:

• ISTQB certification (Foundation or Advanced level) or BSc Software Testing certifications
• Experience with test automation tools (e.g. Playwright or similar frameworks)
• Proven experience in manual and automated testing methodologies
• Strong test design skills: test case design and test coverage mapping
• Well organised with good people and project management skills, initiative, good staff communication skills
• Experience with test management tools (e.g. Qase, Jira), version control systems and maintaining test scripts
• ISL develops vehicle-based software solutions and therefore applicants must hold a valid UK driving licence preferably with access to their own car

Desirable:

• Python, Playwright (or similar), TypeScript, Postman
• Prior experience migrating large manual regression repositories to automation
• Programming ability, CI/CD familiarity
• Problem solving
• Confident in mentoring testers
• Understanding of mobile application testing and backend system validation

Competencies:

• Proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement and quality assurance best practices
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to build relationships across the product and development teams and the wider company
• Ability to manage priorities and work both independently and as part of a team
• Highly organised. Problem solving. Excellent time management skills
• Effective communicator (MS Teams and in person) with ability to work closely with geographically distributed teams
• Adaptability to both field-based and office-based testing environments

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