SQA Engineer (Selenium, Manual Testing)

Author : Ayruz

Insight by: Ayruz

Experience: 2 years or more

Qualification: B-Tech/MCA/M-Tech/Master Degree

Vacancy: 2

Description: You will be working with one of our client in the UK. The client is an award-winning digital agency specialising in search marketing and web development with offices in Manchester, London and operations in Amsterdam and Athens.

You are a passionate tester! As a new build is finished, you will ensure that it is tested in the automated test environment. As an agile tester, you know that exploratory testing is important and you recognise that your knowledge, skills and intuition are invaluable. You write bug reports when necessary, but if possible, you discuss them directly with the developer. You are able to be friends with your teammates but you also point them to quality defects.

Our person will continuously look to self-improve, the team and the group of testers and will strive to make roll outs on zero error.

We look at testers who are capable of setting up an Agile Test Approach within an agency. Yes, we are looking for testers who love to work in an agile environment.

What will you be doing:

  1. Work closely with test lead and development team to and implement test tools, infrastructure and automation and improve the Build/Release process

  2. Critically look at new requirements by asking question such as ‘what is the worst that can go wrong in this feature and what will make a user truly happy when using this feature‘

  3. Write test specs, create test cases and develop test automation to meet the quality gates and release requirements

  4. Exploratory testing (ET) of new software: you will define your missions based on the requirements, product documentation, your team and you will run ET sessions in which you go to the deepest ends

  5. Build automated tests using our own software products, using tools that we build ourselves and you will assist developers in creating excellent unit tests

  6. Work closely with developers to help with the creation of unit tests

  7. You will add value to the team and with your team grow in achieving unique and outstanding performances

Core Skills

  1. Background in testing responsive data driven web applications, manual, screen testing

  2. Expertise in web application test automation framework design, development and implementation using Selenium.

  3. Expertise in test automation methodologies with Agile development environment.

  4. Regression testing using both manual and automation testing

  5. Expertise in Java based test automation frameworks, TestNG, a plus.

  6. Experience in testing web applications across multiple devices/browsers (e.g. mobile devices)

  7. A good understanding of different software testing techniques and when to apply them

  8. Experience with one or more web testing frameworks such as Selenium

  9. Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Nice to have skills

  1. Experience using automated test frameworks (NUnit, XUnit, JUnit, MSTest)

  2. Experience with distributed source control systems including merging branches

The package

We offer a good salary, negotiable dependent on qualifications and experience. On top of this we have a generous benefits package.

Interviews will be held immediately on receipt of suitable applications