Description
* Senior QA Engineer (Desktop UI) - Contract - Nottingham*
QA Automation Engineer (Desktop UI)
6b Month Rolling Contract
Nottingham/Remote
£Competitivepwd Ltd Company
Overview of Skillset: Desktop UI Testing, QF-Test
The Role:
In summary, the roles will involve creating and executing automated test scenarios as part of new feature development for the clients decisioning Platform. The automation testing will consist of two parts - the first is runtime testing that involves writing BDD style test cases in Cucumber/Gherkin using a bespoke test framework, while the second involves GUI testing using a proprietary tool called QF-Test. Both roles will be located in the same Agile scrum team alongside other experienced QA engineers and developers.
Primary Accountabilities:
- Facilitate and contribute to story evolution; from conversation starters through to true Definition of Done implementations.
- Active participation in Scrum rituals, with an emphasis on iterative improvement and shared team goals.
- Ensure software is correctly designed and tested throughout the development life cycle.
- Involvement in the creation and review of the user story backlog and requirements specifications, performance, scalability, usability, and security compliance testing.
- Work with the Product Owner to ensure features meet end-user needs. Troubleshoot and resolve issues with design and implementation of new features.
- Develop automated test cases, with supporting data to meet business requirements. Incorporate appropriate level tests into the Continuous Delivery pipeline.
- Promotion of best practice testing within the team.
- Self-manage to plan and organise your time so that committed work is completed to DoD.
- Engage with the wider global group to ensure programme-level functional quality, performance and supportability.
- Identify opportunities to adopt innovative testing technologies and techniques.
- Maintain and improve existing system documentation.
The Candidate:
You are an Agile practitioner with a strong background in software testing and enterprise technology. Problem-solving and creative design solutions are second nature - you apply the most relevant skills, and seek to learn new ones, to complete highly complex tasks.
You are enthused about testing methodologies, frameworks, libraries and tools.
You provide testing guidance in the evolution of stories at all points within the SDLC. You are very conscious of providing your end consumer the best experience.
You learn fast and have a desire to share knowledge effectively. You possess an astute business awareness to understand 'why' we are doing something.
Experience:
- Professional experience in Quality Assurance
- Desktop UI Testing, QF-Test
- Practical experience of using agile development methodologies.
Technologies, Languages, frameworks
- Experience and exposure to as many of the following as possible would be advantageous:
- Test case creation, execution and management of functional, automated and performance tests.
- Good knowledge of automation testing tools/frameworks such as QFTest, Ranorex etc
- Experience with programmatic test creation. Usage of programming languages and technologies such as Java, Groovy, Jython and Swagger.
- Browser compatibility and mobile device compatibility testing.
- Test-driven development (TDD), behaviour-driven development (BDD), unit testing, functional testing, system integration testing, regression testing, GUI testing, web service testing.
- Knowledge of automated build/Continuous Integration platforms, eg Maven and Jenkins.
- Atlassian product suite (eg JIRA, Confluence) or other Agile work item management tools.
- Usage of SOAP, REST, XML, JSON.
- SSH, RAD
- Attention to detail and accuracy are essential.
Desirable:
- Python
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