Quality Assurance / Test Engineer

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. You 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
• Experience of testing software across multiple web browsers and devices

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
• Training budget
• Enhanced maternity/paternity package
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 2 days paid volunteering days
• 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