Senior QA Engineer

GrabJobs; Lisboa; Presencial; EUR 40 000 - 60 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

A leading software solutions company is seeking a Senior QA Engineer in Lisbon, Portugal. The role involves ensuring the quality of software development, executing various testing strategies, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Ideal candidates should have 5+ years of testing experience, proficiency in automated testing tools, and strong problem-solving skills. This position offers an opportunity to contribute to a dynamic team in a fast-paced environment.

Qualificações

• 5 years of experience as a Software Tester or similar role.
• Proficiency in writing and executing automated test scripts.
• Knowledge of OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities.

Responsabilidades

• Ensure quality of software development and deployment.
• Execute all levels of testing (System, Integration, and Regression).
• Collaborate closely with team members and departments.

Conhecimentos

Automated testing tools (Python, Playwright)

Manual testing experience

Experience in Agile methodologies

Critical thinking

Data analysis

Formação académica

Degree in computer science or software engineering

ISTQB certification

Ferramentas

Postman

Git

Descrição da oferta de emprego

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We are ranked as the UK’s #1 construction specific software player and our mission is simple; to provide market leading end-to-end software solutions to the construction and construction like industries across the entire build life cycle.

If you are looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. Our teams are based in the UK, Europe, and India, working on products that are used on a global scale. We have a clear and defined road map to deliver over the next 3 years, which is centred around a large-scale digital transformation as well as continuing our growth and expansion.

We embrace diversity and equality and want our employees to be comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. Creating a culture of Equality isn’t just the right thing to do, it improves every aspect of our business.

Purpose

Our technology is used by thousands of companies and affects millions of lives. You will be responsible for the quality of software development and deployment. You will be involved in performing and creating automated and/or manual tests to ensure the software created by Developers is fit for purpose.

The Senior QA Engineer will report to the Agile Delivery Lead or Technical Delivery Lead.

The key areas of responsibility for the Senior QA Engineer include:

• Technical Delivery
• Technical Innovation
• Analysis of software, and systems, mitigate risk and prevent software issues.

Key Responsibilities

• Test technical solutions including complex components, whilst maintaining quality standards.
• Collaborate closely with other team members and departments.
• Execute all levels of testing (System, Integration, and Regression).
• Analyse user stories and/or use cases/requirements for validity and feasibility.
• Mentor team members in an open, respectful, flexible and empathetic manner.
• Help team members overcome obstacles concerning their work.
• Detect and track software defects and inconsistencies.
• Provide timely execution of tests.
• Apply quality engineering principles throughout the Agile product lifecycle.
• Provide support and documentation.
• Determine and agree on quality procedures, standards or specifications and ensure that they are always met.
• Estimate effort required to accomplish requirements and ensure that schedules are met.
• Ensure technical products are tested accurately, based on best practice standards, and on time to help support business objectives.
• Make suggestions to improve and support the testing lifecycle.
• Produce high-quality test plans, documentation and reports as required and complex test scripts.
• Document bug replication steps clearly, along with additional relevant information. Can set up complex replication steps.
• Communicate frequently with QA, Scrum Master, and Development Manager.
• Take responsibility for your personal development, ensuring that knowledge and skills are up to date and maintained, including emerging trends that may be relevant to solutions being developed.
• Continuously strive for innovative solutions and make suggestions for improvements that will provide a benefit to the business in terms of improved efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity.
• Be willing to listen to and support colleagues, devoting time to sharing knowledge, infusing confidence, and expressing positive expectations.

Key Skills, Experience & Qualifications

• Experience with automated testing tools for web applications including Python with Playwright.
• Experience of working in a manual testing role in a software environment, developing and executing tests to validate system functionality against specifications.
• Document bug replication steps clearly, along with additional relevant information. Can set up complex replication steps.
• Able to produce high-quality test plans, documentation and reports as required and complex test scripts.
• Experience of automated testing frameworks & writing automated test scripts.
• Can accurately debug & refactor code within the automated framework.
• Awareness of current trends and developments in software testing.
• Experience Agile (Scrum) methodologies.
• Good knowledge of quality standards, legislation and best practice.
• Degree level or equivalent education preferred in a relevant subject such as computer science, software engineering etc.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Experience in data analysis.
• Write & execute restful API testing using tools such as Postman, Soap UI.
• Can implement & maintain soak, stress and system tests.
• Knows top 10 OWASP software vulnerabilities and how to exploit them.
• Ensures all code is reviewed before changes are checked into master.
• ISTQB certified.
• Can push, pull source code into the appropriate repo such as Git or Bitbucket.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• 5 years of experience as a Software Tester or similar role.
• Tenacious, energised and motivated with a high level of commitment and passion towards achieving quality excellence.
• Strong team player with the ability to work within an Agile / Scrum framework.
• Willingness to support other team members to support team goals.
• Solution-orientated with a positive, can-do attitude and an ability to work under pressure.
• Excellent oral, presentation and written communication skills.
• Confident and able to work alongside strong personalities within the business.
• Strong technical, analytical and problem solving-skills.
• Ability to provide support and guidance to other team members.
• Use tools such as Azure & SonarCloud to accurately report test coverage.
• Create automation test frameworks and build this into a CI/CD pipeline.
• Awareness of TDD (Test Driven Development).

Like all responsible companies Causeway is aware of the need to recognise the importance of protecting our environment and addressing the climate emergency. Causeway is a carbon neutral company and we offset our calculated carbon footprint. However, we recognise that offsetting is not a permanent solution, so we set environmental objectives to reduce our footprint year-on-year.