Quality Assurance Engineer

Quality Assurance Engineer - Reigate

The QA Engineer role will be as an integral member of a global Agile Product Development team to design, build, test and deliver technology products. This role works with the client's proprietary and/or industry-leading systems and applications and ensures that these are designed and built according to agreed-upon technical specifications and quality standards.

The Role

• Works with the team in assessing opportunities to strengthen definition of done and get us closer to delivering working software at the end of every sprint.
• Self-organises and applies cross-functional competencies to create high-value products.
• Works with other team members to adopt Agile Scrum with the goal of improving software development practices and creating high standards of work.
• Advocates improving quality during all stages of software development.
• Creates high quality acceptance tests from acceptance criteria and quality standards that help the scrum team understand the value of the user story from the user's perspective.
• Supports team members, both locally and globally.
• Actively practices emotional intelligence (empathy, self-awareness, self-motivation, self- management) on project teams and throughout the enterprise.

Requirements

• Experience in Automation Testing is required.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum framework is required.
• Proficiency with MS Office
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of SDLC process.
• Creates test scenarios from functional requirements and/or User Stories using the Gherkin format
• Contribute to testing strategy for product that lead to high quality releases
• Intermediate skills in writing T-SQL
• Intermediate knowledge of using SQL Management Studio
• Advanced knowledge of tools and techniques used in manual testing
• Manages time effectively by placing the right focus on value added operations
• Working knowledge of the following technologies and how it impacts testing: JavaScript, Ajax, jQuery, CSS, XML, Angular, load balancing, single/multi tenancy, and rational database design concepts
• Deeply understands practices of agile software development
• Create and drive creation of Regression testing strategy for product