Senior QA Engineer

Senior QA Engineer £520 per day outside IR35 

Duties & Responsibilities

A UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required for this role.

As a QA Engineer, you will join a technical team and be responsible for the delivery of key test activities as assigned by the Lead. The successful candidate will work within a team to support agile development efforts, and business stakeholders, to design, create and execute tests. You’ll need to have the ability to effectively communicate with all members of the Agile delivery team.

Working within an Agile team, duties will include:

• Reviewing of requirements and design documents to generate test cases including identifying test data and defining test environment needs
• Creating and reviewing testing strategies, plans and designs
• Creating, reviewing and optimizing testing processes.
• Preparation and execution of test scenarios (BDD/TDD) to test the application, network and infrastructure solution at all levels including non-functional
• Producing Test Reports and being able to report on interim progress
• Documenting of test results including evidence of any testing defects
• Reporting progress, risks & issues to leads
• Investigating issues and working with the team to identify root cause and resolution
• Analysing data and test evidence from testing outcome to show compliance to requirements

Core Competencies

• Extensive testing experience working in data centric environments – project experience must include data migration, data pipeline (ETL) and streaming
• Experience with BDD and TDD
• An understanding of Kafka
• Gathering testing requirements – developing Feature files and acceptance criteria with business stakeholders and turning them into scripts
• Automated test experience
• Extensive back-end testing experience – Linux
• Automation testing using custom test suites – Fitnesses, Selenium and Soap UI
• Automated performance testing using Load Runner or similar
• Experience in developing custom regression test suites using Python, Perl, Shell scripting, Java, MySQL?
• Experience of using Cucumber and creating test frameworks
• Experience working with Jira