QA Engineer

microTECH Global Limited; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology recruitment agency is looking for a QA Engineer in Paddington, London. The successful candidate will have over 5 years of experience in software quality assurance, including building and using automation frameworks. Responsibilities include developing test strategies, executing tests, and collaborating with engineers to ensure product quality. Proficiency in Android, iOS, Windows, and Linux is essential. This contract role lasts 12 months, offering the opportunity to work in a dynamic, agile environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in commercial software QA.
• Ability to articulate complex ideas effectively.
• Experience with automation tools and script development.

Responsibilities

• Work within a multidisciplinary agile team to provide a test function.
• Create test strategies, execute tests, and report status.
• Provide ongoing training and support for quality assurance practices.

Skills

Commercial software QA experience

Automation system platforms and frameworks

Effective communication

Test plans creation

Agile development environment

Python scripting

Tools

Android

iOS

Windows

Linux

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.

If this sounds of interest, please apply here or reach out to [e-mail]