Quality Assurance Engineer


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17th October 2018

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Norwich

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£28000 - £35000

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Permanent

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Job Title: Quality Assurance Engineer

Location: Norwich

Salary: up to £35,000 DOE + excellent benefits including 25 days leave + 8 bank holidays, pension, free parking, training and development etc.

Job Type: Permanent

Job Reference: PH9599

We are seeking a QA who has worked closely with Software Engineers, not someone who has been isolated within a testing team.

Unified communications experience is of distinct advantage

Experience with application, database, cloud technologies is desired also

Team Set Up

QA Engineer who is the Team Lead

6 Software Engineers

1 DevOps Engineer

1 Software Solutions Co-ordinator

Job purpose:

To work as party of an integral party of a small, agile product team. You will be involved in product releases from planning and design through to release and will work with Product Managers, Software Engineers and business stakeholders to create and extend the innovative products this company’s customers know them for.

You will be provided with the required tools for you to learn, including MSDN licenses, Pluralsight access and time off to attend events to support your growth.

Key responsibilities and accountabilities:

                                         Work with QA Engineers and Software Engineers with scin an agile environment

                                         Undertake all roles required as a part of an agile development team including test design, test execution and test result interpretation in line with business needs and priorities

                                         Concentrate on business requirements, ensuring that examples of desired behaviours and misbehaviours are captured early, and hidden assumptions are discovered

                                         Performing exploratory testing

                                         Creating test scenarios and executing manual test runs

                                         Documenting and reporting defects and analysing their root cause

                                         Reporting upon completion of testing and authorising releases

                                         Using concepts such as risk-based testing to ensure you focus on the right tasks

                                         Take a proactive, constructive and positive approach towards challenges when they arise

                                         Look out for new testing techniques and use them when they fit

Success Criteria:

                                         Apply Agile values, principles and practices within estimates

                                         Using business analyses techniques to collaboratively deliver high-value products - e.g. Example Mapping, Flow Diagram, "7 Product Dimensions" approach to discover all product aspects that encompass functional and non-functional dimensions of any product

                                         Continually be looking to improve your expertise, domain knowledge and skills

                                         Share knowledge with the team and provide mentorship to increase efficiency and improve standards within the team

                                         Show a commitment to ongoing professional development through self-learning, professional training, attending conferences etc.

Person Specification:

                                         Track record in agile testing using the appropriate tools

                                         Must have worked closely with a software development team, not a separate testing team

                                         Understanding of testing principles and practices

                                         Excellent collaboration and communication skills

                                         Experience with application, database and cloud technologies and how they support specific business functions and provide commercial benefits

                                         Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and why they are important

                                         Ability to estimate effort for the completion of User Stories

Wilde Associates is working in the capacity of an employment agency in respect of this role

Key Words: QA, Quality Assurance, QA Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer, Agile Testing, Tester

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