Quality Assurance / Test Engineer

Mercator Group; Crowborough; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Company pension

Group life cover

Maternity/paternity package

Employee Assistance Programme

Electric vehicle scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

Mercator Digital is seeking a Quality Assurance / Test Engineer to join our growing consultancy and help ensure robust digital services. You will work in an Agile Scrum team, collaborating with product managers, BAs and developers to design automation and manual testing, build acceptance criteria, and drive quality across desktop, mobile, and emerging platforms.

You will also contribute to automation strategies, write automated tests, and perform manual testing when automation is not feasible,

Qualifications

• Experience of agile software development and testing methods.
• Experience of automation testing.
• Demonstrable understanding of test driven development approaches.
• Scala code to automate tests using Selenium WebDriver, and rapidly learn other tools & languages as required.
• Proven ability to independently research & communicate new testing technologies or approaches.
• Detail-oriented: able to document and follow detailed instructions within test scripts and defect tracking documents.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Service/Product Managers & Business Analysts to ensure that user needs for new digital services are fully understood and that user stories contain effective, actionable acceptance criteria.
• Identify test cases that are suitable for automation and work with the Agile Test Coordinator, developers and architects to define the approach to automated testing.
• Write automated acceptance tests that can be integrated into the software build process.
• Organise and perform manual tests when automated approaches are not possible.
• Develop test strategies that ensure our digital services function correctly on multiple devices, including desktop, mobile, tablet, games consoles and other commonly used ways of accessing digital services.
• Test digital products for compliance with accessibility standards including WCAG 2.0.
• Participate in the wider testing community (outside of Mercator), building relationships with other testing engineers and identifying best practices that we can adopt.

Skills

Agile software development

Automation testing

Test driven development

Research new testing technologies

Detail-oriented

Scala with Selenium

Tools

Selenium WebDriver

Jenkins

JUnit

Cucumber

RSpec

Job description

Mercator Digital is looking for a Quality Assurance / Test Engineer to be part of our growing consultancy.

What we’re looking for

As an Agile Quality Assurance/Test Engineer you will work as part of a multidisciplinary agile scrum team to comprehensively test the digital products and services being developed. Y ou will work in partnership with Front-end Developers to develop both manual & automated test suites. You will implement a testing approach within regular sprint cycles that will provide an effective level of assurance before regular service releases.

Job type

Full time, permanent. We encourage those who may need a more agile approach to the structure of their working day to apply; we are always willing to discuss flexible options where we can.

Location

You’ll be expected to travel to our customer’s site and potentially sites UK wide; working from client/office/home locations as appropriate.

As a Quality Assurance/Test Engineer you will:

• Collaborate with Service/Product Managers & Business Analysts to ensure that user needs for new digital services are fully understood and that user stories contain effective, actionable acceptance criteria
• Identify test cases that are suitable for automation and work with the Agile Test Coordinator, developers and architects to define the approach to automated testing
• Write automated acceptance tests that can be integrated into the software build process
• Organise and perform manual tests when automated approaches are not possible
• Develop test strategies that ensure our digital services function correctly on multiple devices, including desktop, mobile, tablet, games consoles and other commonly used ways of accessing digital services
• Test digital products for compliance with accessibility standards including WCAG 2.0
• Participate in the wider testing community (outside of Mercator), building relationships with other testing engineers and identifying best practices that we can adopt

Essential knowledge/experience

You will need:

• Experience of agile software development and testing methods
• Experience of automation testing
• Demonstrable understanding of test driven development approaches
• Scala code to automate tests using Selenium WebDriver, and rapidly learn other tools & languages as required
• Proven ability to independently research & communicate new testing technologies or approaches
• Detail-oriented: able to document and follow detailed instructions within test scripts and defect tracking documents

Desired knowledge/experience

• Experience of automated testing tools (e.g. Jenkins, jUnit, Cucumber, rspec, Selenium)
• Experience of web testing tools (eg Selenium WebDriver)
• Experience working as a test automation engineer, software developer, or other appropriate IT background, in an agile project
• Experience of API programming languages such as JSon

In return you’ll receive

• Above market rate (dependent on experience)
• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays and your birthday off)
• Company pension
• Group life cover
• Enhanced maternity/paternity package
• Employee Assistance Programme
• We also offer an electric vehicle scheme and cycle to work scheme

*Applicants must have the right to work in the UK and the ability to pass BPSS vetting