QA & Testing Engineer

Job Description

The QA & Testing Engineer will work alongside project and programme stakeholders as well as Release Management to ensure that specific streams of work are progressing to plan, cross project and programme dependencies are identified and managed appropriately, provide guidance by example and act as the first escalation point for QA & Testing across their project or programme. We will ask a lot of you, but we will offer a lot in return. You will have an opportunity to work in an environment that provides continuous growth and learning, with an emphasis excellence and mutual respect. Responsible for developing, enhancing, modifying and/or maintaining automation suite in the Enterprise Risk Technology environment. Employees work closely with business partners in defining requirements for system applications. Employees typically have in-depth knowledge of automation tools and languages Your key responsibilities Speciality Overview Define and manage testing strategies, plans and deliverables related to testing within specific applications Manage and drive the adoption of recognized best practice and policy and contribute to the ongoing improvement of methodologies and assets Accountable for the functional and non-functional testing of one or more applications. Utilize Defect tracking tools , generate Test reports for internal consumption and release process Create and maintain test pipeline in teamcity Identify the automation areas and provide roadmap to proceed further Participate in the activities of the broader QA and Testing community Help your team to test and release software within short lead times and with minimum of waste. Work to develop and maintain a highly automated Continuous Delivery pipeline. Align to the wider domain objectives Coaches direct reports and others in the organization, as appropriate Posses good communication skills Your skills and experience Typically requires 8-13 years of applicable and relevant experience Hands on experience in Testing middleware/backend service based applications. Hands on experience in Testing of Web applications, Testing using Rest Assured Hands on Experience in Selenium, Java, Gherkin, Cucumber Experience in SQL is a must, PL/SQL would be desirable Working knowledge of Java is must Hands on experience in performance testing, utilizing various tools , assessing reports Experience in Defect tracking tools , interpretation of Test reports, release processes Education/ Qualifications We are happy to consider candidates with a wide variety of educational backgrounds and qualifications. Qualifications in computer science, STEM subjects, other numerate disciplines, business and economics are beneficial for the role. We also look favourably upon candidates with equivalent practical experience. This could have be gained in the workplace or in other contexts, such as contributing to open source software or working on personal projects.