Test Engineer

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Do you love to learn and share with a team who will rely on you and your attention to detail to discover information, risks and issues to ensure we continue to deliver the service our customers trust and expect from us? Are you passionate about testing?

Responsibilities

Be an advocate for agile and context driven testing approaches both internally and externally

Encourage a collaborative, test-first team environment and support team collaboration and ownership of quality

For projects, write a clear and concise test strategy covering both functional and non-functional requirements (e.g. security/vulnerability assessment, load/performance and usability), applying manual and automated methods as appropriate

Testing requirements to ensure they are well defined and result in teams agreeing in the understanding of requirements

Plan, execute and report exploratory testing sessions for risks and features

Assist in the strategy and maintenance of automated test frameworks (Java/JavaScript), whilst following applicable software engineering practices; such as configuration and change management

Work with the team to identify potential security risks and scheduled security testing when required

Share knowledge, expertise and best practice with other members of the team, including the application and selection of appropriate tools

Continuous improvement of the test engineering processes and practices

Skills and experience

Essential

Test design skills supported by strong lateral and critical thinking skills

Ability to document testing at all levels to meet contractual needs, whilst maintaining operational pragmatism for their own work

Experience of using active listening skills and questioning test requirements and designs to improve team understanding of tasks

Appreciation of agile principles and experience of working as a tester in Kanban, SCRUM or similar contexts

Understanding of security risks when developing products and the ability to identify risks for potential testing

Experience of testing in a Linux (CentOS / RedHat) environment, ideally virtualized/cloud-based (e.g. Amazon EC2)

Desirable

Passionate about self-improvement, active blogger on software testing and/ or involvement in the testing community

Experience testing video conferencing or similar collaboration tools

Exposure to development techniques such as TDD, code reviews and pairing

Able to identify and potentially create bespoke tooling for Exploratory testing activities

Exposure to infrastructure automation tools such as Docker, Docker Swarm, Terraform and Kubernetes