Senior QA Engineer - Cucumber, Selenium, HTML5, JavaScript


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Haybrook IT Resourcing

Listed on

18th May 2018

Location

London

Salary/Rate

£48000 - £72000

Salary Notes

with Annual bonus, Share option scheme, Life Assurance and Employee Purchase Programme

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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Senior QA Engineer, QA Tester - Cucumber, Selenium, JIRA, HTML5, JavaScript, Node - JY/5144

My client is a leading worldwide technical solutions provider and they are seeking a Senior QA Engineer to join their London based offices. The role of the Senior QA Engineer will be working in a multi-skilled Scrum Team on key projects for the company. You will play a pivotal role laying out the strategy for delivering a high-quality product and helping the team achieve it.

The successful Senior QA Engineer will work in cohesive, self-contained teams empowered to deliver each aspect of the user experience. Each team follows an Agile process tailored to their requirements. We practice TDD, pair programming and CI with continuous deployment.

Main Duties and Responsibilities for the Senior QA Engineer

                                                             Develop, maintain and execute automated tests for assigned projects to successfully enable delivery of high-quality software products in a continuous delivery environment.

                                                             Innovate process improvements that enable efficient delivery and maintenance with consistent direction.

                                                             Research available tools and participate in initiatives to identify and implement those that will cost-effectively enhance testing capabilities and product quality.

                                                             Identify areas for cooperation with other teams to improve overall quality and, with peers or others, implement initiatives improving testing capability and efficiency.

                                                             Configure, maintain, and/or administer testing tools or environments.

                                                             Develop, write and execute manual tests, particularly, performing exploratory testing where/when required. Interact with Product Management, Project Management, Engineering, and Operations teams to plan testing for delivery of products and enhancements and to assure products meet product requirements and quality standards.

                                                             Report issues and results, researching, identifying and assisting in the resolution of root causes as appropriate, documenting accordingly.

                                                             Identify opportunities to apply existing automation or other tools to meet testing needs.

                                                             Participate in continuous improvement initiatives and implementation of best practices.

                                                             Work across teams to enhance quality assurance/testing and help to develop/execute automation testing throughout the business as appropriate.

Key Skills and Experience for the Senior QA Engineer

                                                             Experience in setting up and defining test strategies and processes

                                                             Experience with a collaborative BDD approach to automated testing

                                                             Agile experience with Scrum / Kanban / XP

                                                             Ability to develop and execute complex automated testing

                                                             Experience with testing tools such as Cucumber and Selenium

                                                             Experience with build and deployment tools such as Jenkins or similar

                                                             Experience with programming languages such as HTML 5, JavaScript and Node

                                                             Strong understanding of QA methodologies and testing skills

                                                             Advanced written and verbal communication skills

                                                             Strong analytical skills (tools/root cause analysis)

                                                             Administration of testing tools/environments

                                                             Experience using test / project management / wiki tools such as JIRA / Confluence

Desirable skills required for the Senior QA Engineer position:

                                                             Experience with cloud-based applications and related services such as Amazon Web Services

                                                             Experience with strategies and approaches to performance engineering in a continuous delivery environment and related tools

                                                             Experience with application logging, alerting and monitoring tools such as New Relic, Kibana

My client is offering a competitive salary and some excellent benefits including 10% bonus, excellent career progression to suit the candidate, childcare vouchers, 25 days holiday plus holiday buy. This role would offer the successful candidate a chance to work with new technologies on exciting projects, with global teams.

This role would suit an experienced QA Tester / QA Engineer seeking a new and exciting position within a large organisation. You will have experience working in mature Agile teams and coaching teams in an Agile approach. You will have experience with Automation Testing, Manual Testing as well as BDD, AWS, Selenium, Cucumber and exposure to programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, C#, C++.

Senior QA Engineer, QA Tester - Cucumber, Selenium, JIRA, HTML5, JavaScript, Node - JY/5144

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