QA Tester

Swindon - Hybrid Working (2 days in office)

£25,000 - £30,000

Benefits - Private gym, Pension, Flexible working

About the role:

Our client is looking for a QA Tester to join their expanding team.

As a QA tester you will be responsible for the testing of new software products and features to ensure that software satisfies all specifications and requirements. You will be defining the tests, setting up automated testing, identifying any problems and helping to debug issue.

Responsibilities:

• Working with the test lead to write the User Acceptance Test (UAT) strategy for software release

• Carrying out the manual UAT of software releases, ensuring they meet the company’s quality criteria.

• Raising trouble tickets and working with the development teams to help resolve the issues

• Help ensure the training documentation is kept up to date

• Support the Business Analysts with the writing of new feature specifications, ensuring there are clear acceptance criteria.

• Supporting the program manager and scrum master to help prioritise tickets

• Attending daily scrum meetings

• Working with product support to analyse and find solution to bugs

Primary Activities:

• Writing test strategy for new software releases

• Software testing of new software features

• Support test automation initiatives

• Plan and implement Performance and Load testing / benchmarking

• Able to work on multiple projects within the project time frames

• Attend daily SCRUM meetings and work directly with developers

• Stakeholder relationship management, with the ability to communicate and present to a range of audiences and reaching consensus between different needs

Skills:

• Experience of testing cloud-based software

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to talk to and present to a range of audiences, sometimes acting as a translator between parties

• Have an Agile mindset and able to handle changing business needs & priorities

• The ability to motivate others and lead change

• The ability to work under pressure on multiple projects within your project timeframes

• A passion for creating solutions with a positive attitude to change

• Strong analytical skills and an informed, evidence-based approach

• Able to grasp new technologies and identify how that can be used in the product

• A strong interest in business and business development

• A good understanding of information technology

Essential Experience:

• At least one year of software test experience

• User Acceptance testing

• Experience of gathering and documenting test acceptance criteria

• Working knowledge of XML/ SQL

Desirable:

• Scrum master experience

• Financial/Account/Credit Control knowledge and understanding will be a huge benefit.

• Knowledge of SaaS solutions especially AWS

• Knowledge of Behaviour Driven Development

• Knowledge of Behat

• Knowledge of Jira/Bitbucket software

• Understand system data structures, data flows and understand IT landscapes, API development, system design principles and can influence the direction of systems development

Our client has fantastic perks as well – our office has a private gym attached which you can use whenever you want.

The rewards and benefits package include:

• 21 days holiday with the ability to purchase more

• Free access to our on-site gym

• Flexible working

• Childcare Vouchers

• Once a month, we have a pitstop lunch with pizza or deli provided and we have an active staff led social committee.

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