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Software Test Engineer

£45,000 - £55,000
London
NW16847

Software Engineer – In Test
£45,000 - £55,000 plus benefits including pension, private healthcare, employee reward and benefits programme, interest free personal loans and lots more
UK-based remote working initially (will eventually be office based, London EC2M / Bishopsgate)

Key Technical Skills required: QA, Quality Assurance, Software Tester, DevOps, Selenium, Automation, Functional Testing, Manual Testing, Kibana, REST, Postman, WebDriver, Open API, Swagger, Azure, Agile

Our client is an extremely successful, innovative International Digital Solutions Specialist. Established more than 12 years ago, they use their extensive experience and proven track record in Business Transformation, Systems Integration and Software Development to deliver long-term, innovative solutions spanning telecoms, technology, media, education and finance.

This exciting and forward-thinking company are looking for a Software Engineer in Test to join the agile software development team. You will work on fast-paced development projects for our own products as well as client projects.

Accomplished in functional testing, you will be motivated to develop your skills in automation, ‘DevOps’ and contributing to the whole software development lifecycle.

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Participate in agile ceremonies (planning, retrospectives, ‘3 amigos’)
  • Collaborate with users, and other team members to write acceptance criteria and test plans for user stories.
  • Carry out functional and exploratory testing of user interfaces and APIs.
  • File clear, reproducible bug reports.
  • Establish and maintain test cases, test environments and test data.
  • Manage software merges and releases.
  • Analyse and decompose complex software systems and collaborate with and influence others to improve the overall design.
  • Write and maintain automated end-to-end tests

 

What will make you stand out from the crowd?

  • Experience of working in a professional and agile software development environment.
  • Relevant degree or equivalent higher professional qualification.
  • A flair for breaking things and diagnosing problems.
  • Proficiency in testing APIs, especially RESTful web services.
  • Proficiency in querying an SQL database.
  • Experience of programming in a general-purpose language.
  • Experience of scripting web automation using tools such as Selenium WebDriver.
  • Experience of API testing tools such as Postman and SOAP UI,
  • Experience of web diagnostic and debug tools such as Chrome/Firefox Developer Tools and Fiddler,
  • Experience of basic Windows and Unix systems administration, including scripting.
  • Understanding of RESTful HTTP services, including API description languages such as Open API (Swagger).
  • Understanding of Cloud application development, especially Microsoft Azure.
  • Experience of working with source control systems, especially git in a team context.
  • Understanding of messaging and event-based application architectures.

 

Due to the large numbers of responses, we receive, despite our best efforts it is not possible to respond to every application. Therefore, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for this role and if you haven’t heard from us within 7 days please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please feel free however to apply for further roles and we will certainly keep your details on file and contact you with suitable vacancies. YourRecruit (IT) Ltd does not discriminate on the grounds of age, race, gender, or disability and complies with all relevant UK legislation.

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