QA Engineer - Fixed Term Contract at DigiOutsource

Purpose of the role:

QA Engineers will perform testing procedures on Web/Mobile Applications and ensure all errors are identified and corrected before releasing to production.

You will be involved in ensuring high quality is engrained into teams as well as working closely with developers to give them a test perspective.

Duties will include (but not limited to):

• Quality from the start – get involved in the user story definition process and write test scenarios upfront.
• Bring a QA perspective to planning sessions and ensure test effort is taken into consideration.
• Work close with developers to ensure that quality is considered and they are creating the right kind of tests.
• Work with product owners to ensure they sign off work items during the UAT phase.
• Support - Assist with resolution and reproduction of user software problems.
• Creation of automated test within as well as conversion of current manual tests.
• Work within the ATDD framework and define items using BDD style syntax.
• Ensure that bugs are treated with importance and try to limit the amount that make it live.

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities. The job holder may be required to complete any other reasonable duties in order to achieve business objectives.

Essential Criteria:

• Full understanding of testing web/mobile applications, websites, and associated technologies
• An understanding of testing backend services, specifically microservice architecture
• Communication skills - ability to communicate with clients and line management effectively
• Experience of Agile methodology, either Scrum or Kanban
• Experience with test automation tools and strategies
• Experience of using BDD effectively
• Proven JavaScript & TypeScript experience
• Experience with any of the following Frameworks: WebDriver (not IDE) / WebDriver.IO /Playwright Cypress / TestCafe
• Experience with Continuous Delivery processes & tools
• Exposure to API testing practices & tools
• Basic abilities with YAML
• An awareness to key metrics for measuring the performance of QA efforts
• An awareness towards processes for feature flag testing and testing in production

Desirable Criteria:

• Specialist software testing skills and knowledge of structured software testing methodologies gained through formal training 
• Previous exposure to Microsoft Azure DevOps & VSTS
• Experience with actively developing & managing Docker infrastructure
• Experience with managing & creating Owaps Zap testing scripts for security testing 
• Exposure to Sauselabs or other tools for mobile testing
• Experience with Terraform / Pulumi