Software Development Test Engineer (Contract)

Dublin  ‐ Onsite
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Description

My client, a world-leader in technology, has a vacancy for a Software Development Test Engineer on a contract daily rate basis in South Dublin.

The SDET Engineer is responsible for assisting Feature teams to deliver IT programs in a dynamic, fast paced, scalable Agile E-commerce Business environment.

The teams need individuals with strong Software Engineering knowledge and experience.

They are looking for candidates who have a strong background in Software Testing methodologies, with demonstrated success in developing automation frameworks, comprehensive automation test suites at both the UI and Service layer, with proven ability to innovate and be creative.

The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated, goal-oriented individual who will be responsible for leading testing efforts and helping to build highly visible and available Customer facing CRM solutions.

The ideal candidate will also have Testing experience in Agile Scrum teams, object-oriented programming domains and experience in large multi-national corporations. Candidates will have strong experience working with Microsoft technologies, and will have worked on web based tools supporting very high volume transactions.

You should be an excellent team player, yet capable of working independently. You will be expected to work with minimal direction, you should be comfortable leading cross-team test practices, taking conference calls and working proactively and collaboratively as a member of a large global project and test teams.

Your main activities will include the following:

  • Work closely with Product Owners and Business stakeholders to continually refine software test requirements and provide feedback on user scenarios.
  • Work closely and iteratively with Scrum team members to clarify functional requirements, determine testing and test automation requirements, and provide feedback on design solutions (functional and technical)
  • Contribute to Feature enhancements impact assessments on system level interactions, and existing automated test suites
  • Conduct In-sprint Test Design, Test planning Test automation development, and Test execution
  • Drive and participate in Test case reviews
  • Conduct Manual testing, and use Agile testing techniques to develop and improve testing approaches/processes.
  • Write robust automated tests for high availability and highly scalable applications which will be used by both internal and external customers.
  • Identify opportunities for reuse so as to design and implement test automation libraries
  • Provide Test consultation to Scrum team members to assist Developers in developing robust Unit Test suites
  • Responsible for ensuring quality of their own work as well as the work of the development team
  • Investigate new technologies and techniques and research ongoing industry developments
  • Log defects and participate actively in the defect resolution and retest process.
  • May be required to conduct performance and scalability testing
  • Development responsibilities include code review/bug analysis, analysing development and testing impacts, writing test tools and identifying automation opportunities
  • Contribute to improvements in unit testing coverage, design test framework, develop test suites, expand automated testing harness and automate scenarios/cases
  • Collect and analyze metrics, prepare Test Automation Status and test results summary Reports.
  • Run triage meetings for defects and production incidents.

You will have:

  • Engineering Degree in Computer Science/Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 6+ years of related experience testing web portals and/or E-commerce applications using Microsoft technologies
  • 6+ years of experience in various phases of testing including test automation development.
  • Extensive coding experience in C# or Java programming
  • Experience with Web Services, SOA, API testing, Web/Database testing (RESTful, .net web services, SQL)
  • Good Experience with web UI testing tools such as selenium/web driver, coded UI etc...
  • Ability to write new automated tests and frameworks that exercise the target product code and ensure quality for functional and non-functional requirements
  • Ability to understand product designs, conduct product code reviews and provide feedback
  • Experience building or adapting automated testing frameworks
  • Knowledge and experience with Microsoft test manager (MTM) and TFS
  • Practical knowledge of Object Oriented programming
  • Practical experience in analysing, designing, and developing solutions to highly complex problems
  • Familiar with Unit Test, Mock, Test Driven Development etc.
  • Ability to perform system-wide root cause analysis and drive improvements
  • Experience in Agile Scrum methodology
  • Strong confident communication skills, including the ability to convey technical information effectively to both IT and business audiences
  • Strong programming, debugging experience, and excellent problem solving skills.

For more information please contact me (Aisling) on (see below) or phone

Start date
n.a
From
CPL Solutions
Published at
10.12.2015
Project ID:
1035361
Contract type
Freelance
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