Purpose of the job
The role of a Senior QA Engineer is to collaborate and work within agile scrum teams (Squads as per the Spotify model) – ensuring Functional and non-functional testing has been done to mitigate risks for the solution/delivery. You will work closely with the agile team members, such as Product Owners, Analysts, Developers and Technical Leads and champion quality through understanding Business risk and impact and ensure that an accurate quality level is assessed and communicated for the application under test.
You will assess what tests are suitable for regression and automate tests depending on the requirement.
Mentor the testers in the team on tools and techniques.
Key Responsibilities
· Prepare test cases corresponding to business and functional requirements
· Carry out both manual and automated tests to establish the quality of the software under test
· Work with team in participating in all estimations and planning sessions, defining, and creating test criteria
· Use the appropriate test automation framework in Specflow
· Contribute to continuous testing in the CI/CD pipeline
· Follow Test Data and Test Case execution processes
· Provide the link between the development team and business representatives regarding testing and quality
· Detect bugs and issues as early as possible in the process, log and prioritise
· Testing of REST API’s using restsharp/postman
· Prevent bugs and issues by thinking of relevant scenarios that can help meet the validation of acceptance criteria at story development stage
· Be the advocate for quality when testing is being discussed
· Bring value to requirements engineering (such as three-amigos conversations) to prevent quality issues arising from requirements, drive and implement the Shift Left QA approach
Knowledge, skills and experience required
· Good understanding of agile software development lifecycle including open-source test automation tools and frameworks
· Experience of working in a fast-paced Agile team with CI/CD and C#
· Experience in ability to automate using Specflow , RestSharp
· Experience in testing API/microservices using postman
· Experience in using any test management tools
· Experience in using JIRA
· Experience in using GitHub/TeamCity
· Experience of mentoring testers in the team.
· Extensive knowledge of automating, debugging and maintaining API tests and frameworks
· Understand and apply SOLID principles for patterns in developing Automation frameworks.
· Ability to work with team members to troubleshoot any problems and ensuring that all relevant personnel are kept informed of progress.
· Excellent communication, interpersonal, time management skills, efficient team player, readily adapt to new technologies and environments. Have ability to work well in a team or as an individual.
Other Skills:
· Identify and communicate patterns to improve software development
· Advocate and evangelise for best practises like Test Driven Development (TDD), Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD)
· Help to maintain and develop automated test suites, aiming for constant improvement
· Provide regular and accurate reports of progress
· Compile user guides, documentation and instruction pages for other QA team members
· Be the point of contact for testing within a Scrum team
· Make testing related decisions on behalf of the Scrum team
· Look for gaps in process and seek to make improvement
· Assist with interviewing new candidates
· Help new starters with the on-boarding process
· Mentor new QA team members in testing and in test automation
