Software Tester Leicester /Remote
One of my favourite clients based in Leicestershire are looking for hire a software tester to join their team. This is a fab role if you are looking to work in a team of testers (6 plus) testers working closely with the dev team! A newly created role due to the volume of work the company have won this is a really fantastic role!
With the option of being office based or remote these guys are the definition of flexibility. The only rule that have is that you should no more than an hour from the office.
I have worked with this company for over 10 years now and they are really something special! Growing organically they have hired 8 people in the tech teams this year, not bad for a medium sized privately owned software house right!
The role:
As a software tester, you will participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle (.net environment) as part of an Agile development team. Your focus will be on making the team more efficient and productive through quality software best practices. In this position, you will be given the opportunity to design, create, build, and maintain test suites.
Role and Responsibilities
- Responsible for design and execution of test strategies as part of an Agile Scrum team
- Participate in product design reviews to provide input on testability of functional requirements, product designs, and estimating/planning
- Translate user stories and requirements to test cases
- Develop and support the testing of product features throughout the entire development cycle
- Own and be accountable for test strategy, test planning, and test execution
- Debug application through logs, stack traces and test results
- Work closely with development teams to drive root cause analysis, feeding that knowledge into automated quality processes effectively
- Drive adoption of best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability
- Collaborate with engineers within Agile Scrum team, reviewing developer unit/integration tests
- Collaborate with engineers across the organisation, keeping current on the company's latest developments in the area of testing. Learning and sharing ideas
- Research emerging test tools, trends, and methodologies - enhancing existing systems and processes
Required experience
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment
- Strong experience in quality assurance
- Experience with defect tracking software (preferably JIRA)
- Experience with resilient enterprise software
- Experience being the voice of quality by uncovering issues
- Experience owning and be accountable for test strategy, test planning, and test execution
- Experience debugging application through logs, stack traces and test results
- Desirable experience
- Load test experience
- Experience with automated testing tools (preferably Selenium WebdriverIO, TestComplete)
In return for your experience my client is offering a salary between £25000 and £40000 for the right candidate plus a comprehensive benefits package.
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