QA Engineer

Resolver, a Kroll Business; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company seeks a detail-oriented QA Engineer to enhance their engineering team's efforts. You will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality of web applications and services, utilizing your manual testing skills and knowledge of modern testing tools. Collaborating with a dynamic team, you'll have the opportunity to grow your testing expertise while contributing to high-quality service delivery. This role offers a unique chance to work on a world-leading platform, making a significant impact in a fast-paced environment. If you're passionate about quality and eager to learn, this position is perfect for you!

Benefits

Market competitive pay rates

Discretionary bonus scheme

33 days holiday including Bank Holidays

Critical Illness insurance

Life Insurance Cover

Healthcare Cash Plan

Pension/401k retirement plan

Cycle to Work Scheme

Employee perks schemes

Mental health wellbeing portal

Qualifications

• Experience in Functional and Regression testing techniques.
• Good understanding of User Interface testing and REST APIs.

Responsibilities

• Support engineering team with testing tooling and features.
• Contribute to test plans, scenarios, and risk assessments.

Skills

Functional and Regression Testing

User Interface Testing

REST API Testing

JSON

Communication Skills

Web Application Testing

End to End Test Scenarios

Test Automation Techniques

Agile Methodologies

Programming Languages (C#, Python, JavaScript)

Education

ISTQB AGILE Foundation or similar qualification

Tools

Postman

Jira

Visual Studio

Job description

This role is based in Leeds/Hybrid.

The Role:

As a successful QA Engineer, you will be supporting the work of the engineering team. You'll be providing specialist input into testing tooling, features and hotfixes produced by the engineering team. You will be contributing to a wider range of activities including the development and review of guidance, test plans, test scenarios, test data, risk assessment, issues, problem resolution and contribute to the delivery of high quality services. You will be using your manual testing skills along with knowledge of test tooling for web services and applications to ensure a consistently high quality of the product for our global clients, therefore experience in web application and web service testing is essential. In return you will have the opportunity to grow your testing skills and work closely with a dynamic, exciting development team working on a world-leading platform.

The “What”:

1. Experience in Functional and Regression test techniques.
2. Keen eye for detail and passion to deliver quality work.
3. Good understanding of User Interface testing.
4. Ability to test REST API’s using suitable tools (Postman).
5. Familiarity with JSON language and chrome dev tools.
6. Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
7. Experience in Web Application Testing and using related web tools.
8. Experience in writing End to End test scenarios for the software products.
9. A natural problem solver who strives to learn new things.
10. Basic knowledge of Test Automation techniques.
11. Agile worker who can adapt easily, embrace change and overcome obstacles in a fast-paced environment.

Essential Criteria:

1. Experience of different test methodologies and Agile based test approaches.
2. Experience in reviewing and analysing system specifications.
3. Collaborate with engineers and business analysts to develop effective test plans.
4. Experience of defining and refining test conditions and scenarios from a specification, user story or acceptance criteria in order to test complex systems.
5. Experience of designing and creating test data to verify expected test results.
6. Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
7. Experience with any programming language (C#, Python, or JavaScript) at a basic level.
8. Experience of identifying defects and helping to troubleshoot the issues if necessary.
9. Experience of working in a cloud hosted environment with CI/CD tools.
10. Experience of using modern test tools Postman, Jira, Visual studio or similar.

Desirable Criteria:

1. ISTQB AGILE foundation, or similar qualification.
2. Experience with testing a web scraper and analysing data.
3. Exposure to different types of Social Medias like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc.
4. Familiarity with testing asynchronous systems and message queues.
5. Experience with cloud providers such as Google Cloud / AWS / Azure.
6. Experience with Selenium/Cypress/PlayWright using C#, Python to automate simple tasks.
7. Basic knowledge of Data Science and Machine Learning.

Benefits:

Our rewards are as unique as our culture, and we want to attract the best people and retain them. Not only will we ensure that your development is key, but you will be joining a fantastic team of like-minded people who work together as one team to achieve a shared vision. We offer an excellent salary and benefits package which includes:

• Market competitive pay rates based on your skills and experience.
• Discretionary bonus scheme / commission scheme with payment based on revenue generated as a result of generated sales leads.
• 33 days holiday including Bank Holidays.
• Critical Illness insurance.
• Life Insurance Cover.
• Healthcare Cash Plan / Healthcare, dental and vision plan.
• An attractive pension / 401k retirement plan scheme.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Employee perks schemes offering discounts, rewards, giveaways and more.
• Mental health wellbeing portal and access to an in-house clinical psychologist.
• Support and provision of supplies to facilitate home working.
• Flexible working opportunities.

Statement:

This work meets the requirements in respect of exempted questions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, any applicants who are offered work for this organisation will be subject to an enhanced check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). This will include details of cautions, reprimands or final warnings as well as convictions. A criminal record will not automatically bar a person from successfully taking up this post.

Resolver, a Kroll business is committed to creating an inclusive work environment. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants regardless of gender, gender identity, race, religion, color, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, age or disability.

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