QA Tester - Manchester

Location
Manchester, Greater Manchester
Salary
£20,000 - £30,000 per annum
Posted
11 Jan 2017
Closes
08 Feb 2017
Ref
1359046
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Position: QA Tester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum
Job Type: Permanent

Company Overview:

Every day, our company delivers world leading payment solutions, processing millions of transactions and reservations for our clients and their customers – reliably, efficiently and securely. Our reservation platform, our parking solutions, our unattended hardware and our integrated online payment solutions enable our clients to engage with their customers online, via mobile or at self-service terminals. Designed with the customer in mind, our solutions stand on their own or add even more value as an integrated suite. Our technology is robust, PCI DSS Level 1 compliant, EMV certified and scalable. It's intuitive and simple to use, and it’s all underpinned by our ISO 9001 quality management system accreditation.

Description:

As a QA Tester, you’ll be part of one of our specialist software development teams in our multi-disciplined business. This exciting role in our unique business calls for someone with equal measures of technical expertise, team focus, the ability to deliver diverse projects and nurture the best of tomorrow’s talent. Reporting to QA Lead, you will be responsible for testing within a project and ensuring we deliver quality releases to our customers.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Representing testing activities with the feature team.
Identifying testing activities that are required, both functional and non-functional.
Execute and maintain test cases on assigned projects.
Perform exploratory testing in areas potentially affected by the implementation of a feature.
Ensuring the feature team adhere to test strategy and quality gates.
Conducting testing tasks that are both manual & automated.
Working with the system team in identifying cross over test scenario’s across multiple applications.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS / EXPERIENCE:

Strong understanding of agile processes - Scrum
Strong analytical skills in identifying testing scenario’s for both functional and non-functional testing
Experience of various automated tools - Selenium, Postman, SOAPUI, Load UI
Experience of different testing & development methodologies -RST, BBST, TTD
Exposure of working within service based architect (REST)
Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
A passion for writing good testable documentation
Working to deadlines
Good eye for detail
Team working

DESIRABLE SKILLS / EXPERIENCE:

Exposure to coding using C#, .Net, HTML, ASP.Net
Exposure to SQL
Exposure to different testing activities - UAT, Black Box, Performance, Security etc..
Understanding of software best practices specifically

BENEFITS:

Health Care
Dental Care
Pension
Local Gym Membership
Fresh Fruit Provided

Benefits: Gym Membership, Healthcare/Dental, Childcare Vouchers
Key skills: Web Application Testing, API Testing, Automated Testing

If you are interested in this position, please forward your details to us.