QA Engineer

microTECH Global Ltd; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology services company is looking for a QA Engineer in Paddington, London for a 12-month contract. The role involves creating test strategies, executing both manual and automated tests and providing training to engineers. Candidates should have over 5 years of QA experience, strong communication skills, and familiarity with multiple operating systems. This position offers an opportunity to contribute to quality assurance practices within an agile team environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial software QA experience.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with Android, iOS, Windows, and Linux.

Responsibilities

• Provide test function to project teams.
• Create test strategies, plans, and execute tests.
• Produce and maintain test solutions.

Skills

Automation frameworks

Clear communication

Test planning

Agile development

Python scripting

Job description

Job Title: QA Engineer

Location: Paddington, London

Type: Contract

Duration: 12 Months

Responsibilities

• Work as part of multidisciplined team agile team with engineers, technical lead, product and delivery managers, to provide a test function to project teams.
• Work with the team to create test strategies, plans, procedures, and execute manual and automated tests for project and product deliverables to provide assurance that they meet functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Contribute improvement suggestions for our test and quality function and propose improvements to existing test QA test and automation solutions.
• Produce and maintain test solutions (scripts and frameworks) together with equipment and configurations for manual and automated test cases.
• Provide ongoing training and support to the engineers to enable effective and sustained adoption of the test and quality assurance practices.
• Provide clear updates, both verbal and in the form of test reports/summaries to provide project leads a clear status of products/project output under test. Your reports will form support for ‘go no go’ readiness decisions for project completion/product release.

Requirements

• 5+ years of commercial software QA experience including building, instrumenting and using automation system platforms and frameworks.
• Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to articulate complex ideas to stakeholders effectively.
• Use and configuration of Android, iOS, Windows and Linux operating systems as target test platforms.
• Experience working with development teams to create comprehensive test plans for new features and product releases.
• Clear understanding of QA methodologies used within a software testing environment.
• Experience developing script to support testing preferably using Python, but other languages are fine.
• Comfortable working in an agile development environment and a collaborative mindset.
• Ability to prioritize and execute testing tasks efficiently at different development stages, aligning with project timelines and objectives while independently addressing and resolving issues found.

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