QA Engineer

StepStone Group; Düsseldorf; Vor Ort; EUR 45.000 - 75.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

An innovative company is seeking a dedicated QA Engineer to enhance software quality throughout the development cycle. In this role, you'll leverage your expertise in exploratory and automation testing to guide teams and ensure robust testing practices. You'll collaborate closely with developers, contribute to the creation of automated tests, and actively participate in planning stages to prevent bugs. This position offers a hybrid working model, competitive benefits, and a supportive community that values work-life balance. If you're passionate about quality assurance and eager to make a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Leistungen

30 days of holidays

Hybrid working model

Company pension scheme

24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

Life Assurance Cover

Volunteering days

Job bike

Discounted parking or job ticket

In-house gym

In-house barista

Bring your dog to the office

Qualifikationen

• Strong background in software testing with a focus on exploratory and automation testing.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environments and contributing to team success.

Aufgaben

• Create automated acceptance tests to ensure product quality.
• Conduct manual exploratory testing and eliminate bugs proactively.
• Help team members write quality automated tests and refine requirements.

Kenntnisse

Exploratory Testing

Automation Testing

Time Management

SQL

C#

Java

TypeScript

Python

Agile/Scrum

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Git

TeamCity

Octopus

Bamboo

Redshift

Power BI

Jobbeschreibung

We are looking for a QA Engineer with experience of working closely with multiple teams to ensure quality throughout the whole software development cycle. Our expectations are proven experience in Exploratory Testing, automation experience, and time and attention management between multiple projects.

This role would suit someone who has a strong testing background, is able to guide and support others, and lead the team by example with best testing practices. You are able to think about the bigger picture across multiple projects to identify potential issues along with helping with refinement of requirements and making informed judgement calls on the scope of testing required.

Your responsibilities

• Help the developers to create good quality automated acceptance tests to ensure the product is protected into the future.
• Manual exploratory testing.
• Work hard to eliminate bugs before they are ever created by contributing very actively in the planning stages.
• Ensure that the User Stories accepted into the sprints have complete acceptance criteria, are testable, and indeed that any important requirements are not forgotten (e.g. error scenarios, security, and nonfunctional requirements).
• Bring testing experience to the team and to help other team members write good quality automated tests.

Qualifications :

• Understanding of software engineering concepts and technical skills; SQL, cloud technologies, frontend development, backend development, C#, Java, TypeScript, Playwright, Selenium, Git, TeamCity, Octopus, Bamboo, Python, Redshift, Power BI.
• Experience in Exploratory Testing, automation experience, and time and attention management between multiple projects.
• Experience analysing user stories for their testing requirements, both functional and nonfunctional.
• Experience contributing to the automated regression tests, ability to isolate causes for hard to reproduce bugs, and ability to influence and persuade other team members.
• Experience working on an Agile/Scrum team and a self-starter who does not wait for tasks or tickets but always seeks to contribute to the Agile team in any way possible and seeks to improve own skills to increase contribution.

Additional Information :

We're a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you're with us. Because your job shouldn't take over your life; it should enrich it.

Here are some of the benefits we offer :

• 30 days of holidays, 2 extra days for Christmas and New Year's Eve.
• Hybrid working model.
• Company pension scheme.
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
• Life Assurance Cover.
• Volunteering days.
• Job bike.
• Discounted parking or job ticket.
• In-house gym.
• In-house barista.
• And you can bring your dog to the office.

Our commitment

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.

Remote Work : Employment Type :

Full-time

Key Skills

Corporate Communications, Apache Commons, Community Support, Jira, Java

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1