Unboxed Consulting - Technical Tester / QA Consultant

Shoreditch  ‐ Onsite
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About the Role:
We believe in having a tester in each team. Our test analysts are involved in project estimation, delivery and defect management to ensure the quality of the product. They focus on the completeness of test coverage and automate test execution wherever possible.

About You:
We are looking for testers of all abilities who have a keen eye for detail, a passion for ensuring quality and a willingness to learn how to test complicated systems. You will be comfortable testing using both black and white box techniques, know what it means to "tail a log" and able to guide the Product Owner through UATing when necessary.

Key Competencies and Skills:

  • A very high level of organisational skills
  • A good attention to detail
  • Basic knowledge of SQL
  • Basic knowledge of the UNIX command line
  • Experience with version control
  • Experience with deploying web apps (using command line and web interfaces)
  • Experience of working in an Agile environment
  • A willingness to work outside of your comfort zone to get the job done (a can-do attitude)
  • A desire to make the products we ship that little bit closer to perfect
  • A questioning nature
  • Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical people with ease
  • Understands that Browser Compatibility testing is a necessary evil in building good web apps
  • Good bug-reporting skills

Highly Desirable:

  • A technical background
  • Experience of automated testing (Selenium, Watir, JMeter, etc.)
  • Experience of testing in an agile environment

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About Unboxed Consulting:
Unboxed Consulting are a Ruby on Rails Development & Agile consulting agency. We are a young, informal company with a flat hierarchy. We work on a variety of projects, primarily in the private sector, but also some in the public sector. Our clients include start ups, government, educational institutions, charities and media agencies such as Channel 5, HMRC, Apps for Good and Sky.

Our projects are run in accordance with our own variant of Scrum, we call it "The Unboxed Way" specifically designed to start delivering business benefits immediately.

We prefer to work as a full team that includes the client. Sometimes we can't do that and we'll seed some developers into an existing team. A team typically consists of 2-6 developers with a tester, a designer where appropriate and Scrum Master. Iterations typically last 2 weeks, starting with a planning Game and ending with a Retrospective.

We also operate as a part of the Agile Delivery Network (ADN). The ADN is a consortium of digital agencies located throughout the country.

Benefits of working at Unboxed Consulting:

  • We don't have a formal dress code and operate on flexitime to help you keep the work/life balance right
  • You get 25 days holiday per year, plus 2 additional days after your first year
  • You get a company smartphone and MacBook
  • You get 10 innovation days per year- to work on interesting things which they feel would be of benefit to Unboxed, be it through personal development, software development or process improvement
  • We host a monthly company meeting in our offices, a social event for all staff/contractors to attend with free drink and finger food

Salary:

DoE

Start date
ASAP
From
Hacker Jobs UK
Published at
31.05.2013
Contact person:
Steve Buckley
Project ID:
544716
Contract type
Freelance
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