Manual Tester- Pensions

Summary: The role of Manual Tester focuses on candidates with Defined Contributions experience to support an insurance client on a 6-month contract. The position requires collaboration with users to develop test plans, execute various testing types, and ensure product quality. The tester will also work closely with automation testers and other teams to enhance testing practices and deliver high-quality software. The role is hybrid, requiring 2-3 days a week onsite in Reigate.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the test planning process and create test cases in qTest
• Collaborates with users to understand requirements and translate into test plans, ensuring product quality in own and other's work and using extensive testing engineering skills.
• Execute functional, regression, integration, and exploratory tests.
• Log and track defects using JIRA and qTest.
• Work closely with the automation tester to share scenarios for automation and validate automated results.
• Prepare and maintain test documentation and reports.
• Collaborate with other teams to understand the integration testing, possible areas of risk and regression testing required.
• Conducts training and knowledge transfer sessions on business processes.
• Draws on internal and external practices to establish best testing practices within the team and ensures that it is shared and understood.
• Works closely with Development, Product/Business Analysts, and other Software Engineering functions to ensure high quality on-time delivery
• Works with the team in assessing opportunities to strengthen definition of done and get us closer to delivering working software at the end of every sprint.
• Creates high quality acceptance tests from acceptance criteria and quality standards that help the scrum team understand the value of the user story from the user's perspective.
• Supports team members, both locally and globally.

Key Skills:

• Financial Services experience eg Pensions Industry or Master Trust would be beneficial.
• Proficiency with MS Office
• Experience in Automation Testing is required.
• Exposure to AI technologies and testing process
• Proficiency with JIRA, Confluence, Quality Centre test tools
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of SDLC process. Experience in Agile/Scrum framework is required.
• Creates test scenarios from functional requirements and/or User Stories using the Gherkin format
• Intermediate skills in writing SQL
• Manages time effectively by placing the right focus on value added operations
• Advanced knowledge of tools and techniques used in manual testing

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Reigate

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Manual Tester- Penions

We are currently recruiting for a Manual Tester with Defined Contributions experience to join one of our insurance clients on a 6-month contract.

Inside IR35

Hybrid- 2/3 days a week onsite in Reigate.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the test planning process and create test cases in qTest
• Collaborates with users to understand requirements and translate into test plans, ensuring product quality in own and other's work and using extensive testing engineering skills.
• Execute functional, regression, integration, and exploratory tests.
• Log and track defects using JIRA and qTest.
• Work closely with the automation tester to share scenarios for automation and validate automated results.
• Prepare and maintain test documentation and reports.
• Collaborate with other teams to understand the integration testing, possible areas of risk and regression testing required.
• Conducts training and knowledge transfer sessions on business processes.
• Draws on internal and external practices to establish best testing practices within the team and ensures that it is shared and understood.
• Works closely with Development, Product/Business Analysts, and other Software Engineering functions to ensure high quality on-time delivery
• Works with the team in assessing opportunities to strengthen definition of done and get us closer to delivering working software at the end of every sprint.
• Creates high quality acceptance tests from acceptance criteria and quality standards that help the scrum team understand the value of the user story from the user's perspective.
• Supports team members, both locally and globally.

Experience

• Financial Services experience eg Pensions Industry or Master Trust would be beneficial.
• Proficiency with MS Office
• Experience in Automation Testing is required.
• Exposure to AI technologies and testing process
• Proficiency with JIRA, Confluence, Quality Centre test tools
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of SDLC process. Experience in Agile/Scrum framework is required.
• Creates test scenarios from functional requirements and/or User Stories using the Gherkin format
• Intermediate skills in writing SQL
• Manages time effectively by placing the right focus on value added operations
• Advanced knowledge of tools and techniques used in manual testing

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.