QA Engineer

QA Engineer - Automation / Manual (60/40)
Haywards Heath or London with WFH / Remote working options

QA Engineer required by a fast growing and multi-award winning Financial Services company based in Haywards Heath, West Sussex or London with remote working / work from home options. The QA Engineer will help to bridge the gap between manual and automated testing, working closely with .NET development teams and SDETs.

Benefits
Not only with the QA Engineer work for an innovative and 'people first' company, you will also benefit from:

• Basic starting salary of up to £55,000
• Unlimited annual leave (yes, you read that correctly)
• Life Assurance (4 x salary)
• Pension Plan
• Share Options
• Mental wellbeing days
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Flexible working hours
• Remote working options (up to 3 days per week)
• Various salary sacrifice schemes

A few details about the role
The QA Engineer will be in a role that offers exciting projects and challenges. Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Work in an agile environment, being involved in stand-ups, planning, refinement, retros etc.
• Work with cross-functional team to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Business Analysts to help define business requirements.
• Define test plans, carrying out testing of user stories, and reporting any bugs discovered.
• Ensure all artefacts created during testing (test plans, scenarios, bug reports etc) are properly documented and kept up to date.
• Create API tests using Postman
• Help develop end-to-end automation scripts using Cypress and Cucumber.
• Work closely with Developers and SDETs to ensure test coverage is met.
• Continuously look for ways to improve and evolve QA processes

What you will need
Unfortunately desire alone is not enough (though it definitely helps). You will also need:

• Experience as a QA Analyst, QA Engineer, or similar role encompassing automated testing
• Solid Cypress and hands-on JavaScript experience
• Keen attention to detail with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Confident collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Good understanding of various testing types, including exploratory testing, regression testing, accessibility testing, performance testing etc.
• Comfortable testing APIs using Postman or similar tools.
• Experience in using a variety of tools to aid testing and knowing when to apply them.
• Understand the benefit of automation and when to apply it.
• Experience testing a serverless event-driven application would be beneficial.
• Are passionate about testing, continuously looking to improve your own knowledge and skills

If you feel that you are the QA Engineer that my client is looking for then please apply via the link or contact me directly via LinkedIn or our Richmond Square Consulting Ltd website.

Best regards,

Charlie Syrett
Richmond Square Consulting Ltd

Alternative job titles: Automation Engineer, Test Automation Engineer, Automation Test Engineer, SDET, Software Developer in Test