QA Test Engineer – Mid level Coleshill, West Midlands, England
Job description
Main Purpose of the Job
Mercury Limited is a provider of market-leading technology solutions to the recruitment industry. Its primary product is a custom solution for Microsoft Dynamics 365 which is aimed primarily at recruitment agencies and businesses within professional staffing sectors.
We are looking to expand our Development Department with a QA Engineer. You will work as part of a cross functional self-organising Agile development team and be involved with the refinement of requirements, planning and delivery of quality software solutions while contributing ideas to help the team with its continual improvement.
It is the role of the QA Engineer (Quality Assurance) to be responsible and accountable for the quality of our software solutions and with Product Owners to ensure all deliverables are in-line with customer requirements.
Please note, you will need experience of manual testing with a willingness to learn and adapt to automation testing in the future.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Work with the Product team to understand and refine requirements and agree acceptance criteria in collaboration with the rest of the development team
- Plan, execute and document the testing of our software suite using a combination of manual and automated testing
- Work collaboratively with Developers as part of an Agile development team to test user stories as they’re being developed.
- Effectively log and help to prioritise defects using Azure DevOps
- Conduct regression testing activities in preparation for a release
- Maintain and update our suite of regression scripts on a continual basis
Experience
- Demonstrable expertise in the whole testing life cycle including knowledge of various test methodologies, definition of test plans and test scripts, test execution and raising defects
- Proven experience of testing complex user interfaces and applications.
- Experience working within Agile Development Teams using frameworks such as Kanban or SCRUM
- Experience testing API’s with tools such as Postman or ReadyAPI
- Experience logging and managing defects in a tool such as Azure DevOps
- Ability to assess the priority and severity of issues using a standard framework
- Ability to accurately estimate tasks and meet agreed schedules
- ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level
