Description
NextLink are currently working with a leading global pharmaceutical organisation who are seeking a Software Development tester for their Barcelona offices on an initial six month contract.
The successful candidate will be required to:
• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide meaningful feedback and ensure testability.
• Creating, maintaining and reviewing test cases
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
• Executing test cases during informal and formal tests, analyzing test results, reporting and tracking issues, and verifying fixes
• Build software that tests software either by coding or by integrating third party tools into our test suites
• Perform peer code reviews to optimize test code execution
• Compose, execute and assess results of functional and non-functional tests according to the defined by the Test Strategy
• Configuring and managing Test Environments
• Assisting the Test Manager with the creation of required test documentation
• Plan, execute, evaluate and document system tests.
• Identify and manage issues and provide recommendations to stakeholders.
• Investigate and reproduce problems reported by customers
• Analyse customer workflows to prevent issues and improve existing tests
• Maintenance and support of the installed product at the customer side (mostly remotely)
• Bug management with HP ALM
• Implementation and performance of SW-tests on unit and integration level
The ideal candidate will have 3-5 years experience in below:
• Engineering degree, preferably Computer Science or related.
• Proven experience in software development (Java, JavaScript) and automation testing frameworks (JUnit, Selenium, Serenity)
• Proven experience in software testing
• Acquainted with agile development practices (Scrum)
• Experience in software life cycle management tools (i.e.: TFS, HP ALM, Jenkins and virtualization systems)
• Good level of English written and spoken
It would also be desirable if the candidate had experience in:
• Proven experience using BDD frameworks (Cucumber, Specflow)
• Continuous integration experience
• Acquaintance with software communication protocols
• Experience in DevOps tools (Jenkins, Gradle, Maven)
• Experience in Dockers
• Experience in Virtualization Platforms (VMWare)
• Experience on software non-functional testing
• Solution oriented mindset: proactivity in troubleshooting
• Certification in software testing (i.e.: ISTQB certified tester, CAT certified agile tester, etc.)
To apply for the role, please send your CV to