Quality Assurance Tester

Summary: As a Quality Assurance/Test Engineer, you will collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure user needs are met for new digital services, develop automated tests, and conduct manual testing when necessary. Your role will involve creating test strategies for multiple devices and ensuring compliance with accessibility standards. You will also engage with the wider testing community to adopt best practices. This position requires a strong understanding of agile methodologies and automation testing tools.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Service/Product Managers & Business Analysts to ensure user needs for new digital services are fully understood and that user stories contain effective, actionable acceptance criteria.
• Identify test cases suitable for automation and work with the Agile Test Coordinator, developers, and architects to define the approach to automated testing.
• Write automated acceptance tests that can be integrated into the software build process.
• Organise and perform manual tests when automated approaches are not possible.
• Develop test strategies that ensure digital services function correctly on multiple devices, including desktop, mobile, tablet, games consoles, and other commonly used ways of accessing digital services.
• Test digital products for compliance with accessibility standards including WCAG 2.0.
• Participate in the wider testing community (outside of Mercator), building relationships with other testing engineers and identifying best practices that can be adopted.

Key Skills:

• Experience of agile software development and testing methods.
• Experience of automation testing.
• Demonstrable understanding of test-driven development approaches.
• Scala code to automate tests using Selenium WebDriver, and rapidly learn other tools & languages as required.
• Proven ability to independently research & communicate new testing technologies or approaches.
• Detail-oriented: able to document and follow detailed instructions within test scripts and defect tracking documents.
• Experience of testing software across multiple web browsers and devices.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT