IT Tester

Focus Resourcing; Greater London; Remote; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

An excellent opportunity has arisen to work for our established client based in High Wycombe as an IT Tester, remote working available!

You will work closely with internal and external system users and developers. This role will be involved in the development and delivery of existing and new features, whilst ensuring errors are identified and corrected before release to clients.

Benefits:

• 21 days holiday + bank holidays (increasing with length in service)
• Mental wellbeing programme
• Flexible working
• Christmas shutdown in addition to holiday entitlement
• Birthday day off
• Employee Assistance programme

As the IT Tester, you will be responsible for:

• Working in an Agile environment, including attending daily scrum meetings and tracking defects following Agile methodologies
• Liaising with business users and product owners to clarify and elaborate business requirements
• Understanding underlying system architecture and requirements as well as business strategy
• Performing coverage analysis to confirm the completeness of user stories
• Planning, producing and executing manual and automated test cases and checking results to ensure the system's technical and functional requirements are met
• Executing regression tests
• Working closely with the development team to ensure resolution of recorded issues
• Using workflow tools to manage the test status of sprint items
• Producing system test reports analysing coverage and status of testing
• Prioritising system defects with the business users
• Preparing written and oral presentations of work planned and performed for regular sprint showcases
• Participating in rollouts to UAT and Live environments and managing the UAT phase of testing and coordination of business users
• Creating appropriate documentation and user manuals
• Implementing and monitoring process improvements within the team environment

The successful IT Tester will have the following related skills / experience:

Essential:

• 3 years' demonstrable high quality IS/Testing experience
• A-Levels (ideally including IT or related subjects) or equivalent
• Proven test script design skills
• Successfully completed ISEB/ISTQB Foundation
• Proven experience of Web and e-Business environments
• Proven knowledge and experience of using Agile methodologies
• Proven ability to analyse detailed design documents and apply risk management techniques
• Experience of SQL: able to write SQL queries and be comfortable with interrogating and manipulating database tables and contents
• Previous experience of Test Management tools, including understanding of several test processes and methodologies
• Enthusiastic, flexible attitude
• Resourceful and self-motivated
• Excellent analytical skills and problem solving
• Experience of working to tight deadlines and ability to work well under pressure
• Report writing and presentation skills
• Understanding of stress and performance testing
• Understanding of the wider context of non-functional testing

Desirable Skills:

• Experience of Source code management products (e.g. Microsoft TFS, Github, Azure DevOps) for defect and test case & task management
• Proven experience with test automation

Proven experience in one or more of the following automated test tools:

• Test Project
• JMeter
• Jasmine
• ProtractorJs
• NodeJs
• OWASP

For more information, please contact Julie Harding on (phone number removed).