QA Engineer - City of London, United Kingdom - KINETECH RECRUITMENT LTD

KINETECH RECRUITMENT LTD

Verified Company

City of London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Scaling UK environmental business is looking for a high calibre, curious QA Engineer to join this small but growing team.

The employer offers fully remote work (although office locations available across the UK for those more sociable souls).

Scaling business growth combined with huge investment in Tech over the coming five years makes this an exciting place to be.

There will be a mixture of transformative and greenfield work to get stuck in to.

They are looking to improve what and how they deliverQA and so someone who can bring experience of working with a scaling business, or has worked through transformation combined with a really good understanding of "what good looks like" with a willingness to share that and drive improvement, will be a greatfit.

About the role

You will work closely with product owners, scrum masters and lead engineers to ensure that requirements are clearly defined and challenged.
You will be an advocate for functional and nonfunctional excellence in everything you do, in line with modern UX principles, operational efficiency, and standards regarding security, resilience, and scalability.
You will collaborate with product owners to ensure acceptance criteria for all user stories are clearly defined and captured and solutions delivered by engineers fully meet the agreed functional design and holistic business needs.
You will work closely with product owners and scrum masters to balance the need for clear and comprehensive test cases against the need for agility just enough, just in time is the key.
Defining clear test cases that align to defined acceptance criteria that cover all use cases and give appropriate consideration to edge cases, failure cases, and nonfunctional considerations (scale, security, and resilience),ensuring that test cases areexecuted for all deliveries and that defects are appropriately triaged and remediated.
Working with product owners and scrum masters to ensure that backlogs are written in a way that supports incremental testing and release of changes.
Ensure good quality test environments are available and, where possible, that appropriate automated processes are in place to align these to production, scale these out, and refresh data as required.

About you:

Soft Skills

A destructive mindset How can I break this? Being focused on what we need to test to prove this change is good and fit for purpose.
Honest, humble, willing to learn and share knowledge
Strong people skills with effective listening and communication, and the ability to influence and problem solve.
Able to work effectively with Stakeholders and gently challenge and influence as required.
Willing to share experience and best practice with others, interested in driving improvements.
Strong time management and prioritisation skills.

Technical Skills

Specific QA / Testing experience in Microsoft Dynamics 36
Solid experience of working in an Agile environment and Agile processes.
Experience across manual and automated testing with a wiliness to do both and see the value in both.
Experience across functional and nonfunctional testing.
Experience in Microservice Architecture and APIs.
Experience in change and process management.
Experience in an Enterprise environment and/or scaling business environment.

Fantastic employee benefits package including twice yearly bonus, health, life, gym, wellness, discounts and so much more.

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