Description
Job Title: Senior QA Engineer (Contract)
Location: Galway, Ireland.
Responsibilities:
- Lead small to medium size projects as the QA resource or act as a secondary QA resource on major projects.
- Attend project and elaboration meetings and provide QA perspective.
- Review requirements and write comprehensive and detailed test cases and/or strategies based on those requirements.
- Coordinate QA deliverables.
- Identify and execute on automation opportunities throughout the product
- Assist the team in implementing an ATDD approach to Automation
- Conduct test plan/strategy reviews with the project team.
- Execute test cases.
- Write advanced SQL queries to test the integrity of the database.
- Perform database as well as web service testing.
- Utilize defect tracking tool to report on defects.
- Communicate daily to project team on defects, issues and QA-specific news.
- Maintain QA environment as required.
Qualifications:
- BS or equivalent.
- 5+ years solid Quality Assurance skills
- Client Server, Web-based testing experience a must
- Extensive Sybase or Oracle experience a must
- Experience of Fitnesse, Specflow, CodedUI, Gherkin, Cucumber a major advantage
- Familiarity with .NET, Microsoft .ASP, XML, Smart Client technologies as well as general understanding of networking
- Excellent test plan and documentation skills as well as a solid understanding of Quality Assurance practices
- Problem solving and debugging skills
- Communication skills
- Work independently or in group projects
- Agile methodology
- Experience with Financial services industry and Market a plus
- BSc Degree in Computer Science, IT or equivalent
- Quality Assurance and testing Certification a plus but not required
- Ability to take direction and execute
- Strong enthusiasm to embrace and drive change towards TDD or BDD
- Quality Center
- Acceptance Test Driven Development