Mid QA Engineer, Immediate Media Co

• Demonstrable experience of working in an agile environment
• Detailed knowledge of the software development life cycle
• Experience with Behaviour Driven Development, Data Driven Testing and Risk Based Analysis methodologies
• Significant web and mobile testing experience, testing across a range of browsers / devices
• Logging and reporting bugs in Jira (or an equivalent)
• Demonstrable experience with at least one JavaScript test automation tool (e.g. Cypress, Postman, Selenium-WebDriverIO) and willing to broaden your testing skill set through the latest automation tools and techniques
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and the importance of continuous testing
• Great communication, listening and negotiating skills with colleagues
• API testing experience with Postman
• Keen learner, who continually wants to improve, to grow their own skills, their team’s skills and adapt to new tools and processes

Desirable

• We are looking for an enthusiastic QA Engineer to join one of our development teams
• Reporting to the Acting Lead QA Engineer, the successful candidate will be passionate about quality and will go over and above ensuring consistent high standards are met across Immediate digital platforms and look to drive high standards for all deliveries; cultivating an environment of quality and encouraging others to consider it at all stages
• Act as an integrated member of the development team, working closely to ensure the integrity and quality of changes to the products
• Take responsibility for representing QA at all team ceremonies
• Act as a QA role model; understand the grasp of quality in the development team and coach them to higher levels
• Ensure the execution of comprehensive functional, non-functional and regression tests
• Communicate bugs early and effectively and manage issues until they are resolved
• Consider and conduct exploratory testing to increase test coverage and maximise discovery of bugs and defects
• Work with other QA engineers to develop standards, best practices and guidelines
• Collaborate with other team members, Product Manager and Delivery Manager to help plan new functionality or major enhancements
• Foster good working relationships with a diverse group of colleagues