Senior Manual QA Engineer

• Intro:

• We are looking for a motivated, pro-active Test Engineer willing to learn new technologies, working in a challenging and fast paced environment. You will be working in small cross-functional Agile teams responsible for the end-to-end development and component support using 'You Build It, You Run It' principle.

  E-commerce platform

  for one of the largest building merchants. Our client is taking on the complete redevelopment of the existing legacy platform with the focus on UX and Responsive Web Design, and Microservice Platform. It is aiming to remove vendor locking and fully leverage on the latest Open Source technical stack delivering eCommerce platform of the future.
• The focus is on user journey, offer personalisation, search, customer data mining, smart adds and headless CMS allowing Business to efficiently manage day to day trading activities, promotions and sales.

• Project Overview:

• The client is a multi-channel retailer of tools and building materials. It has more than 500 branches in the UK, 90 in the Netherlands, 23 in France and 19 in Belgium.

• Requirements:

• Work within UK business hours (8:00 - 17:00)

• 4+ years in integration, API testing

• Solid understanding of

  Microservices/API

• Experience in writing manual tests
• Able to construct manual test scripts
• Write test plans based on project requirements
• Test case management tools -

  Test Rail

• Project management tools - Jira and Confluence
• Strong understanding and experience in

  Agile

  processes
• Demonstrable experience of testing at all stages of the SDLC
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Broad knowledge of a variety of current test and release tools
• Experience with

  API testing (Postman)

  , manual testing execution

• Will be a plus:

● Experience in using version control software - Git

● Experience creating testing strategies, plans and cases for medium-sized projects

● Experience of working in cloud-based environments (GCP)

● Experience in the retail domain

• Responsibilities:

● Develop and implement the use of appropriate testing tools, and test techniques to continuously improve quality

● Write test plans and scripts based on project / new feature requirements for multiple products including website, EPOS and warehouse management

● Maintain documentation of the QA process

● Support all testing and release activities across multiple development teams as appropriate, ensuring the business and technical requirements for change are thoroughly understood and documented

● Validating production bugs

● Communicate with development teams to provide a reliable and consistent end-user experience

● Troubleshoot any defects

● Monitor QA activities, test results, leaked defects, root cause analysis and identify areas of improvement

● Analyse requirements to identify all relevant tests scenarios and edge cases.