Senior QA Tester

Your main duties will include, but not be limited to:

• Quality assurance of continuous software delivery with a focus on both functional manual and automation testing
• Work as a member of a cross functional agile team to ensure that quality is the primary focus during every delivery
• Design, develop, and support new existing automated testing suites and frameworks for each client
• Work closely with software engineers, business analysts and product owners to ensure that all scenarios for a given feature set are properly defined and well understood
• Encourage a strong desire to automate all repetitive and repeatable testing activities
• Perform manual testing of new functionality and regression of existing functionality using various test techniques
• Help with product support (no user support).
• This will involve monitoring and responding to support tickets, triaging issues and resolving where possible, else raising a change to be done by development.
• Obtain project and system knowledge from developers/business analysts and product managers to ensure a well-rounded understanding of business needs being delivered
• Maintain testing standards and ensure that they are adhered to, as well as actively contribute to the overall test process improvement efforts
• Contribute to continuous improvement projects to constantly improve ways of working across the team and organization - Develop and maintain good working relationships with clients
• Working in an agile environment

LOCATION OF THE JOB:

Our office is located in central London, within walking distance from Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Circus and Green Park. 

SKILLS, QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

•  3 – 5 years of experience in similar testing role
• ISTQB/ ISEB test certification or equivalent (desirable)
• - Proven experience of creating and maintaining automation test suites using Selenium WebDriver, C# and SpecFlow.
• Understanding of Restful APIs, JSON, JavaScript, HTML and document orientated databases.
• A solid understanding of test and defect management using tools such as TFS.
• Work collaboratively with the clients and end users.
• Work as a member of a cross functional agile team with a focus on delivery.
• Ensure that all scenarios for a given feature set are properly defined and understood.
• Experience in the delivery of complex work, working with more than 1 client in parallel
• Considerable experience in testing methodologies, testing lifecycle, and other fundamental test concepts with test automation expertise
• Experience in test automation, performance testing, integration testing and regression testing
• Understanding of Continuous integration, Continuous delivery and the role of DevOps
• Understanding of following TDD and BDD principles
• Strong web-based application experience
• Knowledge and understanding of API and load test tools
• Understanding of insurance operations, products, terminology and concepts (desirable)
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to plan and prioritise own workload with competing priorities
• Hands on experience with TFS, Visual Studio, C#, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, HTTP