QA Engineer

at  WTW

SUMMARY:

We are looking for a QA Engineer to join our growing engineering organisation developing a wide range of market-leading InsurTech solutions. You will join us at an exciting time as we evolve our portfolio from desktop/on-premise towards cloud/SaaS.
As a QA Engineer, you will work closely with developers and product owners to ensure the quality of our business process automation applications. This is a great opportunity for a test engineer who is passionate about quality to join a friendly and professional team building an exciting new interface for workflow design.

THE REQUIREMENTS:

• Experienced Quality Assurance engineer, with extensive years of experience in a relevant QA role
• Deep understanding of software testing, its main concepts and processes: different testing levels, methods and types; test estimation techniques
• Extensive experience in applying risk-based techniques to ensure adequate levels of testing and QA are applied to any situation
• Natural curiosity with advanced analysis and problem-solving skills and meticulous attention to detail
• Experience with testing across a wide variety of software, including complex web-based applications and APIs
• Ability to review requirements and structure an appropriate test strategy
• Experience of analysing and leveraging existing automation test coverage to inform manual test activities
• Experience with issue management tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira
• Ability to work in a fast-paced Agile team and environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to clearly articulate your thoughts, and receptive to the views of others
• Awareness of new testing tools and test strategies

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Experience with test automation, with extensive years of experience in hands-on test automation development at a code level using JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Experience with unit test style frameworks in JavaScript (e.g. Mocha). i.e. not BDD, Cucumber, Specflow etc.
• Experience with JavaScript based test automation frameworks, such as Webdriver.io, Cypress, Playwright. Cypress experience is preferred.
• Experience testing enterprise level SaaS solutions, ideally in Azure, but acceptable in AWS, GCP
• Good understanding of test automation design patterns, best practice and anti-patterns
• Experience in guiding continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) processes, ideally with hands-on experience of implementation.

Other highly desirable, but not essential skills are:

• General knowledge of the Insurance Industry
• Experience in API, system and integration testing in C#
• Performance testing using tools such as JMeter, Azure Load Test, k6
• Degree-educated in a relevant discipline (Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering)

THE ROLE:

• Work within an Agile team to test newly developed software (primarily web based)
• Gain an understanding of the product under test and use this understanding alongside your testing experience to question and identify both defects and improvements to the features delivered
• Provide inputs on high-level test scenarios, challenges, risks, resources, test estimates etc., during test planning meetings
• Collaborate with the team to refine user story acceptance criteria and ensure quality is embedded from the requirements analysis phase
• Perform a high level of exploratory testing against acceptance criteria to ensure new features are introduced to a high standard
• Review the level and scope of automation testing in order to inform exploratory testing
• Develop and execute tests cases where automation is less applicable i.e. less ROI
• Work directly with developers in the understanding and resolution of defects
• Help the team to improve test processes and automation in an agile environment, supporting a regular release cycle
• Liaise with QA representatives from other teams where applications have an element of integration or share components