QA Engineer/ Tester/ Test Analyst

QA Engineer/ Tester/ Test Analyst - Must have Agile and Automation experience
Newbury, Berkshire
Salary £28,000 - £40,000

My client has grown rapidly to become one the of world's leading providers of customer centric network performance solutions that enable operators to continuously and accurately direct investment to meet the increasing demand for rapidly growing data services. A superior alternative to outdated optimisation methods, the company's technology delivers location-aware subscriber information to quickly and precisely boost network performance and enrich user experience. They deliver proven carrier grade solutions that are robust, reliable and highly scalable. Clients include global Tier-1 operators and vendors such as MTN, O2, Telefonica, Vodafone, NSN and Ericsson.

About the Role

A member of the QA team working alongside the development team and in an Agile environment. The role will include, test planning, test creation, test automation and test implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Reporting to the QA team Leader and working with the product development team, product managers and technical experts within the company to deliver high quality Software solutions. You will take an active role in insuring the quality of software releases.
• Develop and maintain the automated tests - you should know how to write automated tests in a way that does not depend on recording manual test steps to generate code.
• Perform both automated tests and manual tests, including but not limited to regression tests, functional tests, validation tests, and performance tests.
• Maintain detailed records of all test cases, and reports on all tests run against each development release.
• Participate in design reviews, feature and release content reviews and provide a users perspective on the software solutions developed.
• Use the in house bug tracking system to report issues.
• Investigate customer reported issues and provide tier 2 support to customers.

Skills/Experience
• A proven track record in all aspects of QA activities within a product development team developing complex commercial software.
• Experience of working in an Agile environment.
• Experience of automated tests systems having both run and developed automated tests. Experience of Automated QA test complete tool desirable
• Ideally ISEB qualified
• Experience of working in a Windows environment with both desktop and enterprise systems.
• Highly motivated and articulate and used to working in high pressure environment. An appreciation of a young and growing company environment and ability to deliver against very challenging deadlines and have a flexible approach to the demands of the role.
• Knowledge of Mobile telecoms, including knowledge of UMTS and GSM systems desirable.

Personal Characteristics
• Ideally a Graduate
• Bright - intellectual capacity to add to and develop the company
• Ambitious and an enthusiastic self-starter
• Attention to detail
• Highly technical
• Positive and enthusiastic
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Willingness to be 'hands on'
• Creative but focused on delivery
• Open and direct communication

Essential experience, PLEASE ONLY APPLY IF YOU HAVE THE EXPERIENCE LISTED most importantly;
Able to write automated scripts without the record/playback feature to generate code
Strong experience within an agile environment
Excellent desktop experience, NOT web testing

This is an excellent opportunity so please apply for immediate appraisal!
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