SC Cleared Tester - 4 Months Taunton

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Certes have been instructed to recruit an SC cleared Tester to join our Public Sector client based in Taunton on a 4 month contract.

The role will be paying up to £350 per day.

Our public sector client requires an SC cleared tester to join them with the responsibility of providing high quality testing to a web-based application. The role will follow an agile methodology and requires a tester with extensive experience of Microsoft Test Manager.

The Tester will come to the role with:
. Experience of delivering testing via a Scrum methodology.
* Experience of delivering the core testing activities in the fundamental test process.
* Evidence of contributing to sprint planning, backlog management, estimation and retrospectives.
* Experience of Behavioural-driven design (BDD) and compiling 'Given x, when y, then z' test scenarios (ideally with SpecFlow).
* Basic C# experience or other relevant programming language (eg PHP)
* Experience of data interrogation using SQL Scripting.
* A high standard of written and oral communication is required to document testing adequately in a clear, accurate and concise manner. Communication of technical information must be adapted to audiences with a variety of understanding.
* Excellent planning and organisational skills to enable multi-tasking and delivery of objectives.
* Demonstrate practical experience of defect management and troubleshooting during testing.

The Tester will be required to:
* Contribute to sprint planning and estimation of user stories.
* Contribute to backlog management.
* Identify and document acceptance criteria for user stories.
* Write and execute test scripts in MTM that prove acceptance criteria are met.
* Ensure regression and integration testing as a minimum are built-in to sprint activity and form part of the 'definition of done'.
* Consider the need for performance and security testing on a sprint by sprint basis and document the decision to include or ignore them in sprint planning.
* Contribute to automated testing as required.
* Record test results in MTM and extract reports as required to demonstrate progress/completion of testing.
* Record defects and collaborate with Scrum colleagues and Product Owner to confirm severity/priority and provide supporting information for fixing. Ensure business/Product Owner sign-off for those moved to the backlog.
* Analyse the impact of defect fixes to determine the scope of re-testing.
* Maintain up-to-date status of recorded defects within MTM and ensure timely closure when successfully tested.
* Confirm the results of testing against acceptance criteria and the 'definition of done' in a test summary report.
* Contribute to/organise User Acceptance Testing as required Delivery of the above will be monitored through regular 1-2-1s with the test manager, review/approval of testing documentation, feedback from Scrum colleagues, weekly progress updates to Test Manager and testing metrics from within MTM.
Certes Computing (and all of its subsidiary companies) is committed to promoting equality and diversity in its business operations.

Start date
ASAP
Duration
4 months
From
Certes Computing Ltd (Birmingham)
Published at
26.03.2014
Project ID:
684795
Contract type
Freelance
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