Company Culture
Working at SQS-UK
SQS-UK offers a progressive working culture and a flexible approach to career development.
We seek the best people to meet the challenges of the projects we undertake for our clients. The philosophy of SQS-UK is to recruit people with experience of the business sector in which our clients operate and then, through a programme of education and training, prepare them to be the best in testing. In this way, our clients can use teams that already have a good working knowledge of the business drivers of their particular market sectors. Experience of working with the problems of specific markets enables a faster and more complete understanding of the requirements of testing projects. This ensures a more efficient and effective result for our clients.
Continuous training and development keep our employees well educated and up to date with all the latest techniques and tools required to offer a top-level service to customers. Everyone is encouraged to expand and improve his or her knowledge and experience and rise to the challenge that new projects bring.
A career path for each person is individually planned and implemented. A skills matrix is used to facilitate transfer between projects. This enables employees to move easily and quickly into new areas of work, thus keeping interest level high and opening new challenges. This enables the learning of new skill sets to be achieved. A Personal growth Plan meeting (PGP) is arranged every six months to enable a career path to be mapped out with goals and milestones. This PGP ensures that the aspirations of all employees can be tracked and fulfilled.
Culture of SQS-UK
The culture of SQS-UK is best expressed as friendly and open - yet hard working and caring.
Easy to say, but often difficult to achieve! The management of SQS-UK has worked extremely hard to keep the approachable and friendly atmosphere of a small company yet at the same time growing in leaps and bounds. The turnover of SQS-UK has grown exponentially over recent years, as has the number of employees.
The same culture values that made working in a small yet growing company both exciting and fun have been retained as the company has grown to new levels. The open door policy that makes for effective management and approachable decision making has been retained and improved to ensure all employees have access and input into top level decision making.
Business Areas
The nature of the changing business areas that SQS-UK is actively working in means that the type of experience required of potential employees is also changing. SQS-UK is active in the following marketplaces:
- Finance
- Banking
- Retail
- Telecomms
- Government
- Insurance
- Energy
- Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals
- Automotive
- Railway
- Healthcare
- Embedded Systems
- Avionics
We look for potential employees with experience within these market sectors. It is not always necessary to have wide testing experience as our academy provides full training to equip you with the required skills. If you have testing experience the academy will assess your level of skill and prepare a programme to enhance your skill sets in preparation for joining a project.
As the SQS group continues to expand, opportunities for pan-European projects will grow. A flexible and well-trained workforce is the first requirement for success. As these potential projects grow, the opportunity for our workforce to work in challenging and exciting new areas and in other countries also grows.