Software Test Engineer

Synergy Solutions International Limited; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm in London is seeking a full-time Software Test Engineer to join their growing team. The role entails applying software engineering principles to design, develop, and maintain applications, ensuring effective testing processes and collaboration within an Agile environment. Ideal candidates should have a strong grasp of software testing concepts and relevant experience in Agile methodologies, alongside good communication and teamwork skills.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant experience in software testing.
• Ability to work in Agile and DevOps environments.
• Experience in test-driven development and automated testing frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements and prepare queries for effective testing.
• Write and execute test cases to identify bugs.
• Participate in test planning meetings and provide input on risks and estimates.

Skills

Software testing concepts

Agile methodologies

Critical thinking

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Education

IT-related degree

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Micro Focus Quality Center

BugZilla

Postman

SQL clients

MS Excel

Job description

Synergy Solutions International Limited is a London based Consultancy firm providing IT expertise and services as part of Software as a Service (SaaS) working model. We aim to provide affordable and efficient software expertise to individuals, start-ups, small businesses and bigger firms. As part of serving clients with dependable and up to date technical expertise in the ever changing and dynamic software world, Synergy Solutions International is now growing their team.

Synergy Solutions Limited is seeking a full-time Software Test Engineer which will involve applying widely agreed software engineering principles and methodologies to design, develop, test and maintain applications and services to achieve the stated business and technology goals within required budgets and timelines.

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• Quality management tools (Micro Focus Quality Center, TestDirector, Test Manager, TestLink, SpiraTest, TestRail, HP-ALM (QC)) to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process including planning, running tests, and tracking defects, generating and storing test reports, and interlinking them with the release requirements;
• Defect tracking tools (BugZilla, Mantis) to track the defects found in the application and generate bug reports to communicate them to the dev team;
• MS Excel or Test Studio to write large sets of test cases and later import them into TMTs;
• SQL clients to connect to the database;
• API testing tools (Postman, SoapUI,) for automated checks. They offer predefined snippets to automate API testing without the need to write code to test the API;

Responsibilities

• · Analyse requirements and prepare a query list. If requirements are incomplete, they need to ask meaningful questions that will yield more information and help perform testing effectively;
• Write and execute test cases to find system bugs like UI and usability issues, etc.
• Provide inputs on high-level test scenarios, challenges, risks, resources, test estimates, etc., during test planning meetings; in some cases, STEs can also cover test automation tasks.

Skills Required:

• Deep understanding of software testing, its main concepts, and processes: the wholebug life cycle; test estimation techniques;
• Ability to work in an Agile environment;
• Critical thinking and analytical skills to examine bug reports and prioritize necessary tests, what information to include in the daily status reports, prioritize and estimate task execution;
• Good communication and teamwork skills to interact with project team members, clients
• Programming skills are always a plus including coding, basic SQL knowledge to extract data for tests, XML, general web development skills, and web services.

Required Experience

• Experience in Agile & DevOps methodology.
• Extensive experience in test-driven development alongside the use of automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
• Knowledge of the key phases of the software delivery lifecycle, Bug Life cycle and established software development methodologies
• An understanding of how to translate product and business requirements into technical solutions with Rational Analysis & Logical Thinking
• The ability to understand support, modify and maintain systems and code developed by other engineering teams
• An IT-related degree
• Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
• Salary: £35,000.00-£50,000.00 per year
• Schedule:Monday to Friday
• Experience:
  Relevant experience: 3 years (Required)
• Education:Bachelor's (Required)

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