The Department
QA (Quality Assurance) are responsible for the overall quality and testing architecture of our products that our department produces. We use a range of innovative front-end and back-end tools & technology to drive robust, well-engineered practices through to delivery, giving the business that sought after confidence. Consisting of QA Manager, Test Architects, Performance Test Manager, Performance Test Engineers and QA Engineers, we have a deeply embedded culture of collaboration, sharing our experiences and skills throughout.
Purpose Of The Role
QA Engineers will perform testing procedures on Web/Mobile Applications and ensure all errors are identified and corrected before releasing to production.
You will be involved in ensuring high quality is engrained into teams as well as working closely with developers to give them a test perspective.
Duties Will Include (but Not Limited To)
- Quality from the start get involved in the user story definition process and write test scenarios upfront.
- Bring a QA perspective to planning sessions and ensure test effort is taken into consideration.
- Work close with developers to ensure that quality is considered and they are creating the right kind of tests.
- Work with product owners to ensure they sign off work items during the UAT phase.
- Support - Assist with resolution and reproduction of user software problems.
- Creation of automated test within as well as conversion of current manual tests.
- Work within the ATDD framework and define items using BDD style syntax.
- Ensure that bugs are treated with importance and try to limit the amount that make it live.
Essential Criteria
- Full understanding of testing web/mobile applications, websites, and associated technologies
- An understanding of testing backend services, specifically microservice architecture
- Communication skills - ability to communicate with clients and line management effectively
- Experience of Agile methodology, either Scrum or Kanban
- Experience with test automation tools and strategies
- Experience of using BDD effectively
- Proven JavaScript & TypeScript experience
- Experience with any of the following Frameworks: WebDriver (not IDE) / WebDriver.IO /Playwright Cypress / TestCafe
- Experience with Continuous Delivery processes & tools
- Exposure to API testing practices & tools
- Basic abilities with YAML
- An awareness to key metrics for measuring the performance of QA efforts
- An awareness towards processes for feature flag testing and testing in production
- Specialist software testing skills and knowledge of structured software testing methodologies gained through formal training
- Previous exposure to Microsoft Azure DevOps & VSTS
- Experience with actively developing & managing Docker infrastructure
- Experience with managing & creating Owaps Zap testing scripts for security testing
- Exposure to Sauselabs or other tools for mobile testing
- Experience with Terraform / Pulumi
- Take responsibility and ownership for completing assigned tasks that may rely on the contribution of other team members
- Be extremely detail-oriented with respect to documentation and communication
- Be at ease with mentoring and supporting peers
- Able to organise & plan day to day without guidance.
- Being able to collaborate with peers effectively within the direct team and on cross team initiatives
- Please note we will apply relevance to our Talent Management and Talent Development Programme as part of our recruitment process.
- Shortlisted candidates may need to complete an assessment.
Should you not hear from us within 2 weeks, please deem your application as unsuccessful.
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