Senior QA tester

Senior QA Tester

Recruitment Agency Reference: 7103700

Location: Reading- Working from home TBC

Office Location: Reading

Duration: 3 months

A position has arisen to join a leading telecommunications company as a Senior QA Tester. The successful candidate will sit in the Network Strategy & Engineering department and assist with ensuring the successfully running and expansion of the company’s nationwide cable network.

Duties will include:

• Use established automated testing tools and techniques to test all output from the developers

• Prepare and maintain test scripts for various web-based .NET applications

• Be a part of an agile team using scrum and Kanban

• Proactively detect of bugs and functional / design issues early in the SDLC

• Take part in agile meetings, coaching, training and knowledge-sharing sessions

• Help to turn business requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria

• Work with other members of the development team to ensure that best possible solutions are implemented

• Enhance existing systems by identifying areas for modification and improvement

• Consider the bigger picture when designing and developing solutions

• Ensure test scripts are designed to be automated to remove the overhead of manual testing

• Promote and adopt DevOps principles wherever possible

• Identify and help resolve mission-critical bugs

• Work on several projects simultaneously

• Serve as a mentor to other testers when the team expands

• Help to promote design for testing to ensure solutions are built with testing in mind

• Investigate new technologies that will be beneficial to the team

Specific Knowledge & Experience:

• 5+ years of commercial testing experience with a high level of automation

• Strong background in automated testing techniques and tools

• Some experience of software development using C#

• Experience of SQL Server database analysis and testing

• Commercial experience with automated testing tools

• Experience with using source control solutions such as TFS, ADO and Git

• Experience with continuous deployment and continuous integration

• Be competent in various testing methods and techniques

• Be able to design and build complicated test scripts

• Take ownership for learning and development of own skills to ensure they are up to date and maintain awareness of developments in the industry

• Innovate with a customer focus

To apply for this role, please contact Renay Demoore on the Reading Recruitment team on 0118 207 1212 or rdemoore@venngroup.com

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