Test Agent

ISR Recruitment; West of England; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

ISR Recruitment is seeking a Test Agent on a permanent basis in the UK. The role involves testing across varied software platforms, collaborating with developers and product experts, and contributing to patch release testing cycles.

You will work closely with the support team, write and plan testing criteria for major product releases, and adapt to different client contexts while continuously learning new systems.

Qualifications

• Experience with software testing in an Agile environment and collaboration with developers and product owners.
• Ability to write and maintain test cases, acceptance criteria, and logging of faults, features and bugs.
• Willingness to learn different software and context-specific information for different clients.
• Experience across the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Responsibilities

• Provide ongoing product testing in collaboration with the software development team and product experts.
• Manage testing required to support fortnightly patch releases.
• Work with the product team during sprints to write and plan testing criteria for major releases.

Skills

Software testing

Agile testing

SQL

Automated testing

Test planning

Test case documentation

Education

ISTQB certification (desirable)

Tools

CRM

Issue Management

Postman

Jira

Job description

Skills and Experience:

• Comfortable navigating different software packages for the purposes of testing or using it to test (CRM, Issue Management, Postman (API), etc.)
• Willing to learn different software and context specific information for different clients
• Experience of software development lifecycle
• Experience of software testing in an Agile environment, working closely with developers and product owners
• Experience of writing testing strategies, test planning, acceptance criteria definition writing, logging faults, features and bugs, documentation of test cases for repeatability
• ISTQB certification in Software Testing or equivalent this is desirable but not essential
• Writing SQL experience
• Automated testing experience

The Opportunity:

Our client based a successful software house are currently on the lookout for a Test Agent on a permanent basis. Ideally, they are looking for someone that will provide ongoing product testing in collaboration with their software developers and product experts. The successful candidate will need to have technical aptitude and enjoy working in and around IT systems. You will also work closely with the support Team and will be managing the testing required to support fortnightly patch releases and this will also incorporate you working with the product team during development sprints to write and plan testing criteria for the major product releases.