Software Quality Engineer (UK)

About Us 

We’re Dayshape—an award-winning software scale-up with big ambitions and the momentum to match. Trusted by Big Four and many other top professional services firms globally, our AI-powered resource management platform is helping organisations to achieve extraordinary results.   

Our platform stands apart as the only solution that combines advanced AI, real-time project financials, and firm-wide insights to elevate resource management to a strategic function. By driving profitable growth, powering confident decisions, and ensuring satisfied clients and teams—we're helping our customers build strong organisations and careers for the long term.  

Why our customers love Dayshape: 

• We help professional firms optimise margins and increase revenue, unlocking access to more profitable work.   

• We provide complete operational visibility today and the tools to confidently predict tomorrow.   

• We empower firms to become the places where top talent wants to work -  and the best clients want to work with.  

Recognised as Scotland’s fastest-growing tech company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for three consecutive years and more recently as the Enterprise Digital Tech Business of the Year at the 2024 ScotlandIS awards, we’ve consistently proven our ability to innovate and deliver real impact—and we’re always looking for like-minded people to join us. 

At Dayshape, our purpose is to improve people's working lives, and our culture is an important driving force in helping us to do just that. We're a friendly, inclusive, and ambitious team—driven by our values and a shared commitment to success. If you’re ready to join a fast-growing, high-impact company that’s reimagining resource management, then let’s talk. 

About the Role 

In 2024, we saw significant growth and welcomed many new customers. As we continue to scale, we are refining our processes and expanding our specialised team of data engineers who focus on customer integrations. We are now looking for a Software Quality Engineer to join this team. In this role, you'll play a key part in establishing and embedding quality processes and best practices. 

This is a highly collaborative role where you'll have the chance to work directly with clients, providing guidance and advice on testing our software. 

What You Will Do 

• Develop test plans and work with clients to support them in validating that the integration is meeting their requirements.   

• This should focus on making the process as repeatable as possible although will occasionally require support for bespoke integration solutions. 

• Implement and integrate quality best practices and processes within the team under the guidance of a Lead Software Quality Engineer. 

• Keep test artifacts, including test plans and test runs, up to date. 

• Collaborate with Data Engineers to test integrations, ensuring safe and seamless deployments. 

• Support customers in testing new deployments of Dayshape by: 

• Developing end-to-end test plans with them. 

• Coaching end-users on how to test integrations effectively. 

• Utilize and maintain automated testing frameworks as needed. 

About You 

• Confident in holding team members accountable for quality and embedding processes. 

• Proven experience in establishing and improving quality processes within a team. 

• Skilled in testing back-end code and non-UI changes (e.g., API testing). 

• Familiar with Azure Data Factory and Azure DevOps. 

• Basic knowledge of SQL (e.g., SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE, JOIN). 

• Understanding of data transfer concepts and the differences between data types (e.g., .csv, SQL, JSON). 

• Experience or willingness to collaborate with external end-users to support their quality processes, including integrations testing. 

Bonus Points If You Have 

• Experience in writing and maintaining Unit Tests (ideally in C# or Python).   

What you’ll get 

• Starting salary range £41,000 - £48,000 (dependent on experience)

• At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development 
• 33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days 
• Paid four week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement 
• Enhanced family leave policies 
• Private healthcare and rewards through Vitality 
• Income protection and death in service cover 
• Matched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme 
• Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service 
• Innovation Week twice a year - a chance to experiment and work off-project 
• Volunteering time – up to 20 hours a year to participate in volunteer work 
• Regular All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication 
• Time out of the working week for team socials each month, with a mix of in-person and virtual options: past events include hiking, family BBQs, board games and at-home cocktail classes! 
• Genuinely nice, smart people to work with, who are excited about growing our company 

Working Details 

This is a full-time role (37.5 hours per week). We typically work from 09:00 - 17:30 from Monday to Friday, though we can be a little flexible around this, just let us know. 

We are ideally looking for someone in/around Edinburgh, though we’re open to the possibility of this being a remote role (as long as you are in the UK). We are making the most of flexible hybrid working, so you will not need to come into the office everyday (unless you want to!). Our remote staff visit the Edinburgh office periodically for team events, workshops, and to connect with colleagues in person. 

Join the team! 

Equality of opportunity is more than just a responsibility: we believe it is a huge advantage to welcome a variety of experiences and perspectives into the team. Diversity is a great asset and, as such, we strongly encourage applications from any background. 

This is your opportunity to really influence how we get things done, and how we measure and improve our capability to deliver software with high quality in a scalable way. We are doing well, but there is lots more to do to maintain the high bar and pace that we have set. 

Everyone here is growing personally as the company grows, so if that sounds like something you would like to be part of, we would love to see your application.   

The deadline for applications is 12:00 on Friday 21st March, with interviews taking place over the following couple of weeks.