QA Engineer – Birmingham – DD – unit, integration

Senior QA Test Engineer – Birmingham – TDD – unit, integration, end-user, black-box & white-box testing – Agile

end-to-end digital shipping platform. It’s made up of a suite of tools for trade that connect to create efficiencies and digitise workflows. We’re bringing true digital transformation to the global shipping industry by designing, developing and bringing to market, technology that enhances the way shipping professionals work.

The Culture

We are building a world class team of motivated and passionate multi discipline technologists who all share the vision to continuously improve and share an eagerness to learn, support one another, operate as a high functioning and performing team, and drive the product development through effective technology and innovation. We operate in a very supportive and team-based environment, where we use a lean and agile environment and apply DevOps philosophies and practises to deliver a continuous delivery approach with a fail fast, learn fast mentality.

The Role

This role is ideal for an experienced test engineer with strong critical sense, analytical thinking and a good understanding of the software development cycle. You should be able to work independently, be ready to participate in requirements meetings and group presentations and ensure the testing is thorough to deliver a quality product. You will work on multiple projects simultaneously and help team members and Technical Leads to identify potential issues in the functionality and quality of the end product. Moreover, you should be able to prepare documentation for test plan executions and be willing to learn independently. We are

looking for a highly motivated individual who can:

• Quickly integrate with the existing team.
• Demonstrate experience of working in an Agile environment, e.g. story-based development, stakeholder workshops, daily stand-ups, regular demos, retrospectives etc
• Build and maintain an automated test suite
• Take a pragmatic, common sense approach to exploratory testing (rather than just following test scripts)

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with an in-house development team to provide quality assurance on the company’s websites and applications
• Design and implement test case scenarios.
• Assist in planning, writing and executing automated testing (Selenium & Specflow, Cypress), System testing and Regression testing
• Write reports from QA cycles, including presentation to project team/Users
• Build and maintain a close working relationship with Team members and Technical Leads.

Technical Knowledge

• Understanding of Test-Driven Development and testing philosophies
• Knowledge of various testing methodologies: unit, integration, end-user, black-box & white-box testing
• Excellent Excel understanding and experience
• Automation experience Desirable
• Knowledge or experience of Agile development cycles
• Familiarity with HTML/XHTML/Javascript/JQuery/CSS/SQL
• Familiarity of testing tools Selenium & SpecFlow, Cypress
• Understanding of Microsoft .NET technologies
• Understanding of Microsoft Azure

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