Senior QA Test Engineer

Description

Senior QA Test Engineer

About us: ITech Consult AG is a certified ISO Swiss company with offices also located in Germany, Great Britain and Ireland. ITech Consult is specialised in delivering ICT candidates for contract work. We were founded in 1997 by IT professionals; hence we well understand what it means to be professionally supported in your search for a new project and being employed.

Reference No.: 916536NC
Role: Senior QA Test Engineer
Industry: Banking
Location: Zurich und Region; Switzerland
Work load : 100%
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 12 Months

Job details:
An alternative investments fund manager located in Zurich is further building out the functionalities of its trading and analytics IT platform. To support the development team, the fund manager is looking for a motivated individual with experience of how to test and improve the quality of trading applications.

Key Responsibilities
Act as the primary Q/A and tester in the agile development process. This includes:

-Implement and maintain formal testing process and end user training
-Plan and conduct the business user acceptance testing and end user trainings
-Set up and maintain the manual regression testing suite
-Creation of automated tests
-Keep training and functionality documentation up to date
-Coordinate resolution of issues raised by the end users
-Develop MIS report for development, testing and support

Required Skill :
-Requirements engineering in an extremely agile environment (i.e. writing user stories, defining acceptance criteria, etc.)
-Excellent skills in creating test cases from both user stories and through informal dialog with key users without supervision (in effect you will be your own BA/RE)
-Production of initial manual tests followed by automated test creation.
-Test integration
-Some development skills in C# .net, MS SQL to be able to understand what the developers are doing & to provide suitable tests for their applications.
-Ability to work independently in a complex fast moving fluid environment with excellent communication skills.
-Have a demonstrable interest in technology

Nice to have
-Previous experience with interactive mock-up tools and agile tools (JIRA)
-Higher Education, such as Bachelor Degree in Computer Science

Languages:
-Fluent in English
-Fluent in German is an Advantage

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