Automated QA Engineer – Award winning e

Software Engineer in Test/QA Engineer (London or Portsmouth)

The team are enthusiastic engineers and testers who enjoy what they do. Amongst other practises, they use Pair Programming, TDD/BDD, Refactoring, and Continuous Integration, and actively review and tune our Agile process. This is an exciting opportunity to put your mark on a best in class QA function in a leading e-commerce business.

This is a brand new role that has been created, and as such we are looking for people who are up for a huge but exciting challenge. If you are passionate about technology, and have experience of open source testing technology, this could be the start of a fantastic new career for you/

Primary objectives and responsibilities

·                      Working in a fast paced agile environment where no two days are the same

·                      Collaborate closely with engineering and stakeholder teams during requirement gathering

·                      Testing in a test-first environment (acceptance test driven development)

·                      Analysing user stories and writing acceptance tests from user stories to aid developer testing

·                      Deducing test conditions for each acceptance test to increase test coverage using appropriate test techniques

·                      Writing test plans and providing estimates on execution tasks

·                      Perform automated, manual, performance and exploratory testing on different test environments

·                      Reporting issues as they are found and assisting developers in identifying and resolving issues

·                      Providing clear and concise test status report to the stakeholders on a daily basis

·                      Assist in implementing test processes and procedures to improve efficiency and quality

·                      Assist in writing test cases for legacy code and add to an evolving regression suites

Experience required

·                      Testing in an Agile (Scrum, XP) environment

·                      Good understanding of SDLC with different development methodologies and how testing fits in to each model

·                      Testing of high-volume websites (preferably e-commerce)

·                      Thorough understanding of all black box testing techniques in particular session based exploratory testing and risk based testing

·                      Testing of legacy code with little documentation

·                      Must be ISEB certified to at least the foundation level

·                      Good understanding of Selenium RC, Grid, WebDriver or any other Open Source automation tools

·                      Bonus points for performance testing (load, stress) and associated tools (preferably Open Source)

·                      Bonus points for development skills in at least one of development languages: C#, Java, Ruby

·                      Bonus points for test management tools, Jira, Bugzilla, Load Runnder, Neo Load, Gomez

Characteristics of right individual

·                      Attitude is very important! You will need to be passionate about improving quality and processes

·                      Value the importance of quality for the whole organization and not just to the application

·                      Passion for finding defects – and then getting them fixed

·                      Being up to date with the latest improvements in the world of quality assurance and testing – blogs, forums, whitepapers, seminars, etc.

·                      Welcome a changing environment where last minute tasks / modifications are unavoidable

·                      Good degree -- if one was obtained

·                      Strong written and verbal communication skills, mentoring (as appropriate), collaboration, planning estimating

·                      Motivated and enthused by difficulty challenge, coupled with a strong competitive nature to excel and be the best

·                      Demonstrably driven and self-motivated in high-change environments

·                      Bonus points for cycling or triathlon interest

Our client is award winning and very proud to have the following

•          An estimated 15% share of  UK online  market – No.1

•          estimated 7% Share of Worldwide online market  - No.2...... And No.1 focused on Road and Tri-athlon

•          Over 500 Brands across Cycling, Run and Swim sports

•          Over 67,000sq ft warehouse space

•          Over £20m of stock 30,000 plus SKU’s

•          200+ staff employed

•          220k+ product reviews on site growing at 5k+ per month.

•          7 different payment methods – tailored to suit customer needs internationally

•          Responding to over 35k customer service e-mails p/m, in 7 languages