Senior QA Engineer - London, United Kingdom - The Stepstone Group

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    Job Description

    The job at a glance

    Join our team and you'll be responsible for ensuring quality throughout the whole software development cycle. You will guide and support others and lead the team by example with best testing practices.

    Working in the data domain, you will work across multiple projects to identify potential issues, along with helping with refinement of requirements, and making informed judgement calls on the scope of testing required. You will have the opportunity to get involved in programming tasks if you so choose, or to help out with the business analysis

    This is so important to us. By joining our team, you will be playing a vital role as together we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody.​

    Your responsibilities

  • Help the developers to create good quality automated acceptance tests to ensure the product is protected into the future
  • Manual exploratory testing
  • work hard to eliminate bugs before they are ever created, by contributing very actively in the planning stages
  • Ensure that the User Stories accepted into the sprints have complete acceptance criteria, are testable, and indeed that any important requirements are not forgotten (e.g. error scenarios, security, and non-functional requirements)
  • Bring testing experience to the team and to help other team members write good quality automated tests
  • Qualifications

    Your skills and Qualifications

  • Experience in Exploratory Testing, automation experience, and time and attention management between multiple projects.
  • Understanding of data engineering (including SQL, Python, Data Warehousing, ETL, Facts and Dimensions),
  • Experience analysing user stories for their testing requirements both functional and non-functional
  • Experience contributing to the automated regression tests, ability to isolate causes for hard to reproduce bugs and ability to influence and persuade other team members
  • Experience working on an Agile / Scrum team , and a self-starter who does not wait for tasks or tickets but always seeks to contribute to the Agile team in any way possible, and seeks to improve own skills to increase contribution
  • Additional Information

    Our commitment

    Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.