QA Development Tester

Job title:

QA Development Tester

Company

J&C Associates

Job description

Job Title: QA Development Tester
Location: London, UK
Role: PermanentRole Description:

• Client is seeking a self-motivated and personable test analyst to join the team.
• The role shall work closely with the product, technology and marketing teams, as well as with partners, suppliers and vendors to thoroughly analyse, test and report against existing and new features and capabilities across our array of products.
• The role shall operate across the front-end and back end as required.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work as part of cross functional agile team to ensure quality is driven into the heart of the development process from requirements stage through to delivery.
• Promote a ‘shift-left’ approach to testing, ensuring tests are identified, prepared, and executed as early as possible in the lifecycle.
• Represent the interest of the customer and the experience of the end user during the delivery process.
• Develop and evolve test frameworks using best-in-class tools and technologies.
• Write and review test code to ensure high standards in terms of test coverage, as well resilience, maintainability, and performance of test automation suite
• Perform manual testing – functional, exploratory – when needed.
• Participate in agile ceremonies (Stand Ups, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives etc).
• Proactively bring issues and problems to the attention of the team to ensure timely and appropriate actions are taken.
• Apply risk assessment methods to identify quality risks and impact and, where possible, take appropriate mitigating measures.
• Log defects in a clear and understandable manner, and work with the Product team to triage and prioritize defects for resolution.
• Collaborate with developers in problem spaces to pair-test functionalities and debug issues.

Key Skills and Experience:

• Proficiency in Object Oriented Programming language – Java
• Extensive experience testing mobile platforms, specifically iOS and Android.
• Hands-on experience working with mobile test automation tools, specifically Appium; IDEs such as XCode, Android Studio; and network monitoring tools such as Charles Proxy or similar.
• Practical experience testing Webservices/RESTful APIs with tools such as Postman or RESTAssured
• Experience with iterative Lean/Agile methodologies e.g., Scrum or Kanban.
• Prior experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, Bitrise etc.
• Knowledge of version control with GIT and a good understanding of branching and merging concepts.
• Good understanding of approaches such as BDD, TDD, ATDD and how it can be applied to test both backend services and frontend.
• Experience diagnosing, reporting, tracking, and resolving defects and issues using tools such as JIRA, Trello etc.
• Practical experience with Cloud testing platforms such as Browserstack, AWS Device Farm, Saucelab etc.

What you will bring to the team:

• Driven by the desire to help build solutions that make a difference.
• Have a strong view on what success looks like. Not afraid to question status quo.
• A problem solver who is prepared to use their initiative and present solutions.
• Strong task orientation (gets things done) and can manage competing priorities.
• Have a passion for quality advocacy. A good communicator and collaborator.
• Have a solid understanding of the mobile ecosystem.

Expected salary

Location

London

Job date

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 05:24:24 GMT

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