Quality Assurance Engineer

Harvey Nash Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology recruitment firm is looking for a QA Engineer for a 12-month contract based in Edinburgh with remote work options. The ideal candidate will provide expertise in functional and automation Quality Assurance, creating effective QA strategies and addressing various testing needs. Extensive knowledge of testing tools, automated testing technologies, and various programming languages is essential. Experience within the public sector is preferred. This role is outside of IR35, offering great flexibility in a dynamic work environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in creating and delivering functional and automation QA strategies.
• Ability to automate web-based end-to-end systems.
• Familiarity with validation of Cloud and Azure based solutions.

Responsibilities

• Provide functional and automation Quality Assurance (QA) expertise.
• Create and deliver QA strategies to meet project requirements.
• Automate testing processes for various applications.

Skills

Functional and automation QA expertise

Testing/QA tools (JIRA, ALM, Azure, Dev Ops, Zepher)

Automated testing tools (Selenium, Webdriver I/O, Cypress)

Automation within Agile framework

Various programming languages (C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, .NET, SQL)

Testing methodologies (Agile, Kanban, Waterfall)

Tools

JIRA

Azure DevOps

Cucumber

Git

Job description

Harvey Nash is now inviting candidates to apply for the 12-month contract role of QA Engineer.

• Edinburgh/Remote working
• Outside of IR35
• Public sector experience is preferred

The candidate will be required to provide functional and automation Quality Assurance (QA) expertise. Candidates applying must have the ability to create and deliver functional and automation QA strategies/solutions to meet project requirements.

If you have a mix of the listed below experience, please submit your CV for consideration.

• Extensive knowledge of using testing/QA tools i.e. JIRA, ALM, Azure, Dev Ops, Zepher etc.
• Ability to automate front web-based end to end systems, interfaces, cross browser/device, mobile apps and other applications.
• Comprehensive knowledge of automated testing tools i.e. Selenium, Webdriver I/O, Cypress
• Automated Test Reporting via Cucumber
• Familiarity with version control and release software i.e GIT, Subversion, Azure DevOps, Jenkins or team city
• Proven track record of automation within an Agile framework i.e. DevOps, CI/CD or FDD
• Aptitude to working with various languages and frameworks including C++, C#, Java, Javascript, .NET, SQL, VBA/VBScript, shell scripting.
• Understanding of software architectures - SOA, IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, Client Server and experience of validating Cloud and Azure based solutions.
• Understanding testing & QA methodologies i.e. Agile (BDD, TDD, ATDD), Kanban, Waterfall and V-Model
• Previous experience of MS Dynamics, MS Power Apps and the Power Platform