Quality Assurance / Test Engineer

Mercator Digital is looking for a Quality Assurance / Test Engineer to be part of our growing consultancy.

What we’re looking for

As an Agile Quality Assurance/Test Engineer you will work as part of a multidisciplinary agile scrum team to comprehensively test the digital products and services being developed. You will work in partnership with Front-end Developers to develop both manual & automated test suites. You will implement a testing approach within regular sprint cycles that will provide an effective level of assurance before regular service releases.

Job type

Full time, permanent. We encourage those who may need a more agile approach to the structure of their working day to apply; we are always willing to discuss flexible options where we can.

Location

You’ll be expected to travel to our customer’s site and potentially sites UK wide; working from client/office/home locations as appropriate.

As a Quality Assurance/Test Engineer you will:

Collaborate with Service/Product Managers & Business Analysts to ensure that user needs for new digital services are fully understood and that user stories contain effective, actionable acceptance criteria
Identify test cases that are suitable for automation and work with the Agile Test Coordinator, developers and architects to define the approach to automated testing
Write automated acceptance tests that can be integrated into the software build process
Organise and perform manual tests when automated approaches are not possible
Develop test strategies that ensure our digital services function correctly on multiple devices, including desktop, mobile, tablet, games consoles and other commonly used ways of accessing digital services
Test digital products for compliance with accessibility standards including WCAG 2.0
Participate in the wider testing community (outside of Mercator), building relationships with other testing engineers and identifying best practices that we can adopt

Essential knowledge/experience

You will need:

Experience of agile software development and testing methods
Experience of automation testing
Demonstrable understanding of test driven development approaches
Scala code to automate tests using Selenium WebDriver, and rapidly learn other tools & languages as required
Proven ability to independently research & communicate new testing technologies or approaches
Detail-oriented: able to document and follow detailed instructions within test scripts and defect tracking documents
Experience of testing software across multiple web browsers and devices

Desired knowledge/experience

Experience of automated testing tools (e.g. Jenkins, jUnit, Cucumber, rspec, Selenium)
Experience of web testing tools (eg Selenium WebDriver)
Experience working as a test automation engineer, software developer, or other appropriate IT background, in an agile project
Experience of API programming languages such as JSon