Software Test Engineer Gateshead, England
Job description
Working as a Software Test Engineer within the Testing function of KCS you will ensure the quality of the products by generating and executing product functionality tests and identifying and reporting product defects as part of a cross functional project team. You will be part of a dynamic, energetic and accommodating team.
Amongst many exciting duties, you will be responsible for:
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
You will be expected to undertake a wide range of activities and your responsibilities will include:
- Developing Manual and Automated Tests
- Participate in all aspects of QA product lifecycle: understand the product requirements, test cases creation, feature/regression/integration/exploratory/end-to-end test execution
- Execute test cases and report on results
- Report defects and track
- Work with developers to diagnose and rectify software problems
- Understand product business requirements and review functional specifications, to detect and remove defects early in the product development lifecycle
- Write test cases in line with a specification to test core functionality, identify and investigate ambiguities in test results and propose solutions
- Execute test cases on specific areas of product functionality and check outcomes against expected results
- Participate in Agile development processes including communicating ideas, questions and concerns openly with the team
- Participate in the relevant scrum events: planning and estimation, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Implement and use the departmental standard QA processes and tools
- Working collaboratively with developers and testers to ensure quality is built into our applications as new features and technologies are introduced
- Embrace continuous improvement
Essential Skills:
- Experience, knowledge and understanding of business processes
- Experience of software testing within an Agile environment
- Experience of writing, maintaining and executing manual test cases
- Experience of the entire test lifecycle
- ISTQB qualification
- Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills
- Good communication skills both verbal and written
- Experience and understanding of Automated testing
- Experience of integration testing
Company Information
Kerridge Commercial Systems (KCS) is the market leader in developing and delivering fully integrated business management solutions for distributors, suppliers, resellers, wholesalers and merchants. Our mission is simple: to design, implement and support high performance systems that enable our customers to source effectively, stock efficiently, sell profitably and service competitively.
Equal Opportunities
KCS is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires us to adjust the recruiting process please do advise us when contacted.
If this role is of interest to you please apply online.
To all recruitment agencies: KCS does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our careers site or direct to KCS employee. KCS is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
