Test Engineer at Sage

This role is one that demands a passion for continuous improvement of product, system and customer knowledge. Test Engineer should expect to manage their own project work items and work closely with the delivery teams to carry out thorough and efficient testing to team processes and testing standards. The Test Engineer will create accurate test plans, and execute against these, ensuring that all issues and risks are raised and managed to completion. The Test Engineer will have an eye for detail and be quality focussed resulting in thorough and well-organised test phases across all projects they work on.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership: 

• Demonstrate a level of understanding of the system under test and gain an understanding of how customers use the products under test.
• Create and track to accurate and timely test estimates for projects
• Collaborate with the delivery team to create source documents used for testing artefacts and create and maintain test artefacts that maximise the efficiency of the test phase, cover all requirements and allow for timely delivery of products and/or components to our customers
• Execute different testing approaches within each defined stage of development and keep up to date with advances in the discipline, e.g. rapid, risk based, exploratory, regression, security, usability etc.
• Have an awareness of the test automation framework and as a result create, execute and maintain efficient and effective test automation scripts
• Take accountability for all test related activities within a test phase, accurately record and communicate risks and issues found during test phases and produce effective test metrics for the Test Team Lead
• Share knowledge and expertise across the wider testing team and where required coach others to avoid key person dependencyCarry out such tasks as directed to meet the needs of the business

Skills, know-how and experience:

Must have:

• At least 3 to 5 years of hands-on software product functional testing
• Experience testing web applications (Intermediate level)
• Natural high level of attention to detail in all aspects of working
• Able to prioritise and plan own time to ensure deadlines are met
• Good problem-solving  and troubleshooting approach; always able to provide logical solutions and options
• Clear verbal and written communication style to enable conversations with all levels of stakeholder including direct customers and to ensure accurate issue recording
• Must be able to assess tasks for the best testing approach and apply these throughout the different phases of a project.
• A rapid ‘pick up and learn approach’ that will ensure valuable contribution to any team within days of joining the team
• Experience with Agile methodologies

Preferred:

Experience with performance and/or security testing

• Good domain, component or product knowledge in either finance, payroll or HR fields
• Proven experience in testing including experience in designing and implementing test artefacts and awareness of relevant automation tools
• Knowledge of relational databases is very desirable

Technical / professional qualifications:

• ISTQB Foundation or equivalent is essential
• Ability to write sql queries is desirable