SDET- Contract

Our client is looking for a contract SDET to work on a new multi-platform OTT/VOD application, working with the iOS & Android mobile teams. Introducing all the latest cutting edge technology and best practices, this it work on multiple re-builds for the Video player, customer experience such as signing up, picking new products and services on to your account, help centre and general looking after your account.

Requirements

• Participate, identify and write acceptance criteria for each user story so that quality is baked into the implementation.
• Design aggressive and thorough system and integration tests.
• Review the tests written by your colleagues.
• Pairing with developers.
• Application of Testing Pyramid.
• Must be able to build test frameworks from scratch.
• Execute any manual exploratory testing which may be necessary.
• Ensure the functionality developed is coherent and usable and fits the Product Owner’s expectations for the iteration.
• Collaborate with users to identify and perform tests for edge case and complex scenarios.
• Manage and operate a QA environment including builds and deployment.
• Work in the team to achieve consensus agreement and binding decisions.
• Work in the team to continuously improve process and behaviour through regular reflection and adaptation.

Essential

• Excellent knowledge of testing web and mobile apps.
• Must have extensive coding experience in Java 8.
• Behaviour driven testing tools like Behave, Cucumber etc.
• Some development experience (could personal projects).
• Experience with testing frameworks like Appium, Selenium etc.
• Use of device & browser farms like, i.e. AWS, BrowserStack etc.
• Testing web services and APIs (for example, REST, SOAP services) using XML, JSON.
• Testing large integrated systems with a high degree of functional complexity.
• Being highly motivated and a capable team member.
• Collaborating within a team to reach consensus about technical solutions, weighing up options clearly and concisely.
• Someone that demonstrates active and conscious awareness of their environment, sensing and anticipating situations and being able to ask the right questions at the right time.
• Someone that is comfortable with change, able to fail fast, learn quickly, and be able to adapt to new challenges.
• Consistent attention to detail.
• Be readily accountable and hold other team members accountable.

Highly desirable

• Subversion or Git.
• Jira.
• Docker.
• Unix / Linux skills.
• AWS.
• BrowserStack.
• CI/CD tools (Jenkins, CircleCI etc.)
• OTT/Video streaming experience.

Personal

• A track record of delivery, and getting things done.
• Passionate about code quality and test coverage.
• Perfectionist most of the time, Pragmatist when required.
• Great communicator, always keen to discuss your ideas on a whiteboard.
• Enjoy showing off your wares – we do regular showcases of our work.
• Have fun doing what you do, and this rubs off on the rest of the team.

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