Are you an experienced QA Engineer looking for an opportunity with a progressive, exciting, market leading company? If so then we have a fantastic opportunity to join our Testing team. As a QA Engineer you would be responsible for the quality assurance and enhancement within the development lifecycle through a combination of automated and manual testing procedures to ensure the software created is fit for purpose.
This is a 6 month fixed term contract.
Key responsibilities include:
- Conducting a range of different types of testing, including functional and non-functional
- Working with Lead QA Engineer to implement automation and non-functional testing strategy
- Building and maintaining existing automated test suites, ensuring a CI/CD approach is supported
- Experience with both the Selenium (Java) and Cypress (Javascript) frameworks
- Checking and reviewing QA Engineer PRs
- Driving the ‘shift left’ concept by bringing the testing and quality criteria in the early stages of the product development lifecycle, representing quality assurance through refinement, testing, delivery, release and deployment, making suggestions on the approach, tooling and technology based on experience and knowledge
- Training and coaching the scrum team and Junior Testers to enhance their knowledge of agile testing and the shared responsibility for quality in an agile team
- Triaging issues to identify the defect and the steps to reproduce it, accurately documenting including investigation, and testing of the fixes to address these
- Working with the Developers in the team to contribute a testing perspective on areas of high risk to help shape the unit test coverage
On top of working for the UK’s leading integrated health and safety experts, you’ll also receive:
- A competitive salary
- 32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays, plus the option to purchase up to 5 more days
- 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days every year
- An excellent pension and 8x salary Life Assurance scheme
- A huge range of high street retailer discounts to help with cost of living via MyArco Perks
- Free, 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development
- Long-term service awards – we’re proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years
The ideal QA Engineer will be/have:
- Knowledge of coding language, e.g. Java, C#, JavaScript
- Knowledge and experience of conducting a range of different types of testing, including functional and non-functional
- Experience in automation testing and tools
- Experience of working in Agile environment
- Full SDLC exposure / full testing life cycle exposure
- Experience with test tools such as; Selenium/Java & Cypress/ JavaScript
- Technical ability to analyse and/or prepare documentation
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Possess a passion for continuous learning and development of self and others