Sr. Software Engineer

A London based company, seeking a Software Quality Assurance Engineer having hands on experience to be part of their Software Team and work on a Permanent basis

Software Quality Assurance (QA) engineer responsibilities include designing and implementing tests, debugging and defining corrective actions. You will also review system requirements and track quality assurance metrics (e.g. defect densities and open defect counts.)

The SQA engineer role plays an important part in our company’s product development process. Our ideal candidate will be responsible for conducting tests before product launches to ensure software runs. If you hold an engineering background and enjoy providing end-to-end solutions to software quality problems, we’d like to meet you.

Ultimately, you should monitor all stages of software testing life cycle to meet quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
• Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open source tools would be a plus
• Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
• Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products
• Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements
• Monitor debugging process results
• Investigate the causes of non-conforming software and train users to implement solutions
• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts
• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies

 Required Skills:

• Strong knowledge of SDLC, STLC, QA Concepts, Testing Methodologies
• Highly Skilled in creating documentation.
• Hands-on experience in Web Application & Rest API Testing
• Defect classification and issue severity rating
• Solid experience in manual testing, approaches, planning and execution
• Perform thorough integration, regression, stress & load testing
• Agile methodologies / SCRUM 
• Hands-on experience Defect management tools such as JIRA
• Ability to setup lab or test environment replicating production environment
• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Analyse new features and write and maintain functional, System test cases against them
• Strong test documentation, management, execution and reporting skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and a thorough understanding of development and testing methodologies are required.
• A can-do, self-driven attitude.
• Experience in TFS environment, building & maintaining test plans/cases repository would be an advantage
• Automation testing would be a big plus - Selenium/ JMeter / Appium

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Computer Science
• Strong experience in software QA including test case and test plan creation, test execution, bug reporting and tracking
• Experience in manual testing execution and test case documentation
• Experience designing and updating test campaigns based on formal/informal requirements
• Team player, methodical, self-starter, process-driven and results oriented.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in Software Testing and Quality Assurance
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

 Excellent working environment, Opportunity to grow and learn.