QA Engineer

You will be expected to understand the software testing lifecycle within the project. You must be able to communicate effectively be proactive and highly involved in team participation.

The B Side: Skills & Experience

Be Technical

• Confident creating and maintaining high quality test suites and test cases

• Define functional and non-functional tests using the BDD approach ensuring adequate depth and breadth of test coverage

• Determine and implement the test plan set testing standards and test metrics

• Ensure traceability of testing against the requirements define the approach and the process for end to end testing across the application and dependent systems

• Ensure that the content in the test scenarios satisfies the business requirements and contributes to successful test execution

• Develop automated test case scripts where applicable and enrich the regression test suites based on the defined test plan

• Maintain scripts for data validation and play a critical role in maintaining the integrity of our data

• Implement data quality standards and processes monitor and report on data quality metrics

• Contribute to best practices both within the project QA team and across the wider team. Drive the usage of QA frameworks and tools and support continuous improvement

• Work closely with our data teams to identify and resolve any issues with data quality including missing data inconsistencies and inaccuracies

• Actively support Agile development methods and best practices

• Assist business test team (UAT)

• Have experience maintaining automated testing frameworks

• Manage and own the software testing lifecycle within the project

• Troubleshoot data issues looking at log files to understand root cause

• Using Jira to track defects and tasks

Be Collaborative

• Maintain balanced relationships across the business community technical team and IT vendors

• Manage client requests and expectations

• Proactively and consistently communicate task status

• Communicate risks assumptions issues and dependencies to appropriate stakeholders and escalate if necessary to ensure the projects success

Person Specification

Necessary

• Proven experience in software testing within a full lifecycle software engineering environment preferably in an agile or iterative development methodology

• Ability to communicate with user community project management developers contractors and all levels of management

• Strong experience of test planning execution and maintenance of test scenarios

• Ability to work both independently and effectively as part of a team

• Basic test automation skills understanding or test automation tools and concepts such as Unit Testing Component Testing System Testing

• Curious to learn and interested in solving challenges

• Solid knowledge of SQL experience with data driven testing

• Understanding of risk identification and analysis

• Hands-on experience of manual web testing

• Experience in defining and executing functional and non-functional tests

• Experience in testing front-end and back end-processes

• Must be self-motivated and eager to learn

• Solid understanding of software testing concepts and methodologies and their function within SDLC

• Strong analytical problem-solving and synthesizing skills

• Ability to explain concepts solutions clearly & concisely and have excellent communications skills

• Must be self-motivated and eager to learn

• Good understanding of database structure

• Hands-on SQL skills i.e. writing and executing queries

• Experience working with large datasets and be detail-oriented

Desirable

• Experience working within cloud environments (e.g. Azure AWS or similar)

• Experience with ETL verification data migration verification and data quality control

• Experience with test automation tools and strategies REST API automation or similar

• Experience with ETL Works or similar

• Experience with data modelling

• GitHub knowledge or similar

• Experience using BI reporting tools and products

• Knowledge of JIRA Confluence TestRail or similar

• Postman knowledge or similar

• ISTQB certification

Bonus Tracks: Your Benefits

• Group Personal Pension Scheme (between 3% and 9%)

• Private Medical Insurance

• 25 paid days of annual leave

• Interest Free Season Ticket Loan

• Holiday Purchase scheme

• Dental and Travel Insurance options

• Cycle to Work Scheme

• Salary Sacrifice Cars

• Subsidised Gym Membership

• Employee Discounts (Reward Gateway)