Senior QA Engineer, Jobs, 8129

Senior QA Engineer - Scotland

  • Location Area:

    Scotland

  • Discipline:

    IT- Testing

  • Job type:

    Permanent

  • Benefits:

    £62500

  • Published:

    18-10-2021

  • Expiry date:

    25-10-2021

  • Reference:

    8129

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WORTH is a full-service digital agency based in Reading, UK, The Hague, Netherland and Stellenbosh, South Africa. We strategise, design, and develop digital solutions for the private and public sectors. Our international team of over 90 professionals work between all locations delivering exceptional software solutions.

Why work for us?

You will work with high profile clients and manage challenging impactful projects, as well as have the opportunity to work within multicultural and multidisciplinary teams. We offer on the job project experience, training and encourage knowledge-sharing amongst colleagues, including WORTH Academy days, time to spend for yourself as well as time to develop your work-related initiatives. If you want to apply for this position or find out more about WORTH, please visit our website: https://worth.systems

Job purpose

  • Reporting directly to the Head of Software Engineering, You will assert quality with inspiration and clarity, driving quality of delivery and encouraging team involvement. You will explore and learn about new technologies and influence the organisation to help them make the right choices. Responsibilities & Contributions
  • Make a significant contribution to the quality assurance and delivery of our digital solutions
  • Share your enthusiasm for Continuous Delivery and agile best practices
  • Communicate with our clients throughout the development process
  • Work with the product team to ensure Acceptance Criteria are defined clearly and asserted during development
  • Drive QA activities and help set QA policies for WORTH
  • Day to day hands-on coding for automation testing
  • Transform our clients with effective technical end-to-end delivery
  • Supporting Junior QA Engineers
  • Keep learning, continuously bringing new understanding to the team
  • WORTH is maturing rapidly, and we need you to help us develop and grow

Knowledge & Experience

  • Extensive working knowledge of a good variety of testing tools and technologies covering e2e testing, API testing, load testing and accessibility testing, such as Cypress, Selenium, Gherkin, JUnit, Jest and Cucumber
  • Strong on automation testing
  • Experience of analysing and testing software in a variety of common languages such as JavaScript, typescript, .NET.
  • Working with TDD and BDD to deliver software
  • Working collaboratively in an integrated team with Software Engineers (eg: Mobbing/Pairing)
  • Knowledge of the software development life cycle
  • Experience with the version control system Git
  • Experience with performance/load testing would be an advantage.
  • Working experience in an Agile environment
  • At least 5 years of working experience in testing with web-based applications.
  • Excellent verbal and written English skills
  • Define and execute functional, automation and performance test plans and strategies.
  • Participate in implementing Continuous Integration practice
  • Manage and prioritise own workload, communicate key issues
  • Document and report all the issues you come across in test reports

What do we offer?

  • An amazing place to work with talented colleagues
  • Forward-thinking leadership team, always open to new ideas and ways of working
  • An attractive salary and pension
  • High level of independence and flexibility
  • 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays with the ability to buy and sell up to 5 holiday days per year
  • Private healthcare for you and your family, along with access to mental health support
  • Team lunches, drinks and socials (post-COVID)
  • Flexible working, the ability to work from home occasionally
  • Discounted gym membership
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Working with high profile clients
  • Challenging, impactful projects
  • Professional learning and development

This is a fantastic opportunity. Apply now for immediate interview