Job Description
About Role:
Reporting into the QA Team Lead/ Senior QA Engineer, the candidate will be responsible for testing for First Advantage's core products using manual test processes and delivering the results to the business. Working on these high-volume, security intensive applications, the Software QA Specialist will write and execute test cases, raise bugs and work together with the team to resolved them, and run sanity and regression tests. This individual will work closely within the agile pod to identify opportunities to improve the product offering to create a better user experience for First Advantage's customers. This individual will use their strong communication skills to work with our teams across the globe and can actively and effectively understand and develop empathy for the needs of hiring managers and candidates
What You will be doing
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Update job knowledge by studying current QA tools, methodologies, and programming techniques. Participate in educational opportunities and read professional publications.
- Responsible for ensuring software is tested and deployments are supported in line with QA processes and business requirements to a high standard.
- Work closely with all stakeholders to understand the requirements from a business and system perspective
- Accurately analyse technical requirements to produce test estimates and approach per project, component or story.
- Actively contribute in SCRUM ceremonies (Planning, Review, Retrospective, Daily Stand up)
- Develop and execute test cases based on agile stories and documented business and system requirements.
- Maintain our legacy test suites including the update of data sets for testing. Perform regression, sanity, and exploratory testing to a high quality and within agreed timescales.
- Document, manage and support the resolution of defects that arise during testing
- Report defects in the defect management tool (JIRA/DevOps) in a clear manner and communicate any issues that may affect the agreed deadline to the line manager as soon as they are known.
- Liaise with the necessary parties during the testing life cycle to ensure that the implementation is delivered on time and of expected quality.
- Produce clear reports of the testing conducted to the stakeholders of the project.
- Identify any risks and escalate to relevant stakeholder and Line manager
- Produce quality test documentation (Test Plans, Test Scripts, and Traceability) to audit standards.
- Enhance the QA team processes through knowledge shares between team members and contributions to QA improvement sessions which includes evaluating and performing proof of concepts for new tools and processes.
- Adopt a professional approach and behavior when dealing with the business and user community.
- Assist others (incl. customers) outside of QA with UAT/ integration testing where required and ensure work is carried out to the QA standards, be that on-site or off-site.
- Lead by example and demonstrate commitment to hitting deadlines
- Carry out additional duties as directed in line with business needs as required by your line manager/ QA manager.
What we are looking for:
- Bachelor of Engineering ’s degree or equivalent
- Experience working in an Agile development environment (Scrum or Kanban preferred)
Required knowledge of:
- Agile software development methodology (Scrum or Kanban preferred)
- Functional testing methods and techniques
- Good understanding of Test Analysis and Acceptance Criteria process
Preferred knowledge of:
- SQL and Database tools (MS SQL Server Management studio)
- Scripting languages
- Behavior-driven Development (BDD)
- SOAP & REST web API
- Java Basic
Skills (all required):
- Excellent English, written and verbal communication skills
- Effectively meet deadlines and troubleshoot issues while handling multiple priorities
- Self-motivated with a high degree of initiative
- Ability to get the job done in time. With strong sense of urgency.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Outstanding attention to detail
- Strong team player, willing to learn and share experience with other team members
- Demonstrates ability to learn quickly within a continually changing, challenging environment
We have great people here and are looking for more. Come join us!
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