Gherkin / Cucumber / Open source frameworks / Black & white box / Agile BDD
Financial services firm in Canary wharf, Gherkin and Cucumber experience are ESSENTIAL
Purpose of the role - how it adds value
An exciting career opportunity has arisen for a Quality Assurance Engineer to join our test team, engaging in various forms of testing, including automated integration testing, performance testing, soak testing, manual acceptance testing, etc.
You will be passionate about quality with a keen eye for detail and knowledge of structured testing processes. You will work 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.
You will be able to work on your 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
* Creating Test Plans
* Creating test cases, both manual and automated
* Organising test cases for project and product regression testing
* Test coverage and status reporting
* Test 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.
Critical Competencies: skills and abilities required for the role
* Experience of designing acceptance test criteria for functional and non-functional requirements
* Experience of automated test scripting and processes
Experience: relevant experience for the role
* Ideally degree Educated (2.1 at least) in an engineering, scientific or technical discipline
* You will have hands-on development experience, ideally exposed to all parts of the software development lifecycle.
* Experience working in agile teams with a BDD approach
* Experience working with geographically distributed teams
* Experience of designing acceptance test criteria for user stories and development tasks.
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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Financial services firm in Canary wharf, Gherkin and Cucumber experience are ESSENTIAL
Purpose of the role - how it adds value
An exciting career opportunity has arisen for a Quality Assurance Engineer to join our test team, engaging in various forms of testing, including automated integration testing, performance testing, soak testing, manual acceptance testing, etc.
You will be passionate about quality with a keen eye for detail and knowledge of structured testing processes. You will work 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.
You will be able to work on your 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
* Creating Test Plans
* Creating test cases, both manual and automated
* Organising test cases for project and product regression testing
* Test coverage and status reporting
* Test 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.
Critical Competencies: skills and abilities required for the role
* Experience of designing acceptance test criteria for functional and non-functional requirements
* Experience of automated test scripting and processes
Experience: relevant experience for the role
* Ideally degree Educated (2.1 at least) in an engineering, scientific or technical discipline
* You will have hands-on development experience, ideally exposed to all parts of the software development lifecycle.
* Experience working in agile teams with a BDD approach
* Experience working with geographically distributed teams
* Experience of designing acceptance test criteria for user stories and development tasks.
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