Test Engineer

at  Clue Software

ABOUT YOU / JOB SUMMARY

As a Test Engineer at Clue, you will become a contributing member of an agile development team to functionality test stories during each sprint and work closely with other members of the team to feedback your findings. The successful candidate will work within the team to uphold delivering software solutions with quality, as well as helping to identify and implement areas of improvement in both the manual and automated software quality process. Alongside this you will be supporting the software testing advances and integrating these into our agile development workflow. The team will consist of software developers, product owners and release manager all working together to ensure delivery of a quality product.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Be an active member of a Clue agile team, attending and contributing to all agile ceremonies. Whilst regularly reviewing progress and feeding back your status.
• Provide accurate effort estimations for work based upon the Product overview and Acceptance Criteria.
• Demonstrable experience of developing and maintaining API and UI Automated tests.
• Experience of testing web-based applications across the full-stack, from the front end/user interfaces, through to backend and databases.
• Defining and creating test cases in line with story acceptance criteria, maintaining test plans and documenting test results in Azure DevOps.
• Assist with the development of automated test scripts, data, and scenarios in accordance with the documented approach.
• Embed, Run, and maintain the automated tests prescribed within the Automation Test Framework.
• Analyse (and document if needed) defects discovered during release testing.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Our ideal candidate would have experience in the following areas:

• Demonstrable experience as an ISTQB Certified Tester and confidence with Automation testing
• Strong understanding of Agile (Scrum, Kanban) development and QA methodologies.
• Proven experience with test plan management, fault diagnoses, and automated testing against a web-based application.
• A proven track record of functional testing at various levels such as:
• Integration Testing
• Smoke Testing
• User Acceptance Testing
• Interface Testing/Usability Testing
• System Testing
• API Testing
• Regression Testing
• Excellent experience with using Microsoft Visual Studio and Katalon Studio for automation development JavaScript, and SQL Server.
• An understanding and proficiency in working as an active member of an agile development team, and the ability to demonstrate a good knowledge of Scrum.
• Proactive attitude with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. With the ability to work in a flexible and adaptable ongoing environment
• Excellent communication and coordination skills, and cooperative outlook. Good written and oral communication skills.
• Knowledge of using Azure DevOps to manage your work, as well as maintenance of build and deployment pipelines, alongside Octopus Deploy.
• Strong test planning, time management, and change management skills, involving prioritising and reprioritising testing task across multiple functional groups and departments.
• Experience in Continuous integration and Continuous development systems in Azure.

ROLE SPECIFICS

• Salary range: up to £45k
• Reporting to: Tech Lead
• Key stakeholders: Test Engineers, Director of Development, Platform and DX team, CTO
• Organisational Framework Level: 2 – Technical Contributor

KEY ROLE MEASURES

• Ensure test cases are created and followed according to the acceptance criteria on a story.
• Work in an open, collaborative way with all other team members, report automation metrics and champion quality in software development lifecycle.
• Bring new ideas and improvements to the existing test process and share these with the team.
• Evaluate and improve the efficiency and stability of automated test processes.