QA Software Engineer / Automation Engineer / QA Automation Engineer / Gherkin / Selenium / Cucumber/ BDD
An exciting career opportunity has arisen for a Quality Assurance Engineer/ Automation Tester to join a test team, engaging in various forms of testing, including automated integration testing, performance testing, soak testing, manual acceptance testing, etc.
The job will involve working directly with product managers, project managers, development team leaders and other testers to ensure that all develop software meets the agreed business requirements and standards of quality, with regards to metrics such as bug rates, performance, etc.
The candidate must be able to work on their own initiative and lead the testing for individual projects from creation of user stories through to pre-release QA sign off.
Main responsibilities of the job
·Developing test strategy both for individual projects and across the team
·Undertaking all forms of functional and non-functional testing
·Ownership of testing for individual projects including
oCreating Test Plans
oCreating test cases, both manual and automated
oOrganising test cases for project and product regression testing
oTest coverage and status reporting
oTest Summary reports for final QA sign off
·Co-ordinating testing activities of yourself and others
·Working within agile development teams with a BDD approach and supporting the developers to quality assure developments early
·Utilise development skills, data manipulation skills and scripting skills to engineer technical, repeatable tests
·Report on testing progress and strategy and provide interpretation and insight on progress to inform management to take decisions.
Technical Knowledge:
·Test case automation using Cucumber test automation tool and Gherkin scripting language
·Open source testing frameworks, including JMeter, FIT, Selenium, QTP
·Solid understanding of how to manufacture and manage test data in an enterprise-class development environment
·Familiarity with development build environment (e.g. Hudson, Linux, Maven, SVN, Github, Tomcat)
·Understanding of both black box and white box test approaches.
Desirable:
* JIRA
* Javascript
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An exciting career opportunity has arisen for a Quality Assurance Engineer/ Automation Tester to join a test team, engaging in various forms of testing, including automated integration testing, performance testing, soak testing, manual acceptance testing, etc.
The job will involve working directly with product managers, project managers, development team leaders and other testers to ensure that all develop software meets the agreed business requirements and standards of quality, with regards to metrics such as bug rates, performance, etc.
The candidate must be able to work on their own initiative and lead the testing for individual projects from creation of user stories through to pre-release QA sign off.
Main responsibilities of the job
·Developing test strategy both for individual projects and across the team
·Undertaking all forms of functional and non-functional testing
·Ownership of testing for individual projects including
oCreating Test Plans
oCreating test cases, both manual and automated
oOrganising test cases for project and product regression testing
oTest coverage and status reporting
oTest Summary reports for final QA sign off
·Co-ordinating testing activities of yourself and others
·Working within agile development teams with a BDD approach and supporting the developers to quality assure developments early
·Utilise development skills, data manipulation skills and scripting skills to engineer technical, repeatable tests
·Report on testing progress and strategy and provide interpretation and insight on progress to inform management to take decisions.
Technical Knowledge:
·Test case automation using Cucumber test automation tool and Gherkin scripting language
·Open source testing frameworks, including JMeter, FIT, Selenium, QTP
·Solid understanding of how to manufacture and manage test data in an enterprise-class development environment
·Familiarity with development build environment (e.g. Hudson, Linux, Maven, SVN, Github, Tomcat)
·Understanding of both black box and white box test approaches.
Desirable:
* JIRA
* Javascript