An excellent opportunity has arisen to work for our established client based in High Wycombe as an IT Tester, remote working available!
You will work closely with internal and external system users and developers, this role will be involved in the development and delivery of existing and new features, whilst ensuring errors are identified and corrected before release to clients.
Benefits:
* 21 days holiday + bank holidays (increasing with length in service)
* Mental wellbeing programme
* Flexible working
* Christmas shutdown in addition to holiday entitlement
* Birthday day off
* Employee Assistance programme
As the IT Tester, you will be responsible for:
* Work in an Agile environment, including attending daily scrum meetings and tracking of defects following Agile methodologies
* Liaise with business users and product owners to clarify and elaborate business requirements
* Understand underlying system architecture and requirements as well as business strategy.
* Perform coverage analysis to confirm the completeness of user stories.
* Plan, produce and execute manual and automated test cases and check results to ensure the system's technical and functional requirements are met
* Execute regression tests
* Work closely and aid the development team to ensure resolution of recorded issues.
* Use workflow tools to manage the test status of sprint items
* Produce system test reports analysing coverage and status of testing.
* Prioritise system defects with the business users
* Prepare written and oral presentations of work planned and performed for regular sprint showcases
* Participate in with rollouts to UAT and Live environments. Manage the UAT phase of testing and co-ordination of business users
* Create appropriate documentation and user manuals
* Implement and monitor process improvements within the team environment.
The successful IT Tester will have the following related skills / experience:
Essential:
* 3 years' demonstrable high quality IS/Testing experience
* A-Levels (ideally including IT or related subjects) or equivalent
* Proven test script design skills
* Successfully completed ISEB/ISTQB Foundation
* Proven experience of Web and e-Business environments.
* Proven knowledge and experience of using Agile methodologies
* Proven ability to analyse detailed design documents and apply risk management techniques.
* Experience of SQL: able to write SQL queries and be comfortable with interrogating and manipulating database tables and contents
* Previous experience of Test Management tools, including understanding of several test processes and methodologies.
* Enthusiastic, flexible attitude.
* Resourceful and self-motivated.
* Excellent analytical skills and problem solving.
* Experience of working to tight deadlines and ability to work well under pressure.
* Report writing and presentation skills.
* Understanding of stress and performance testing
* Understanding of the wider context of non-functional testing
Desirable Skills
* Experience of Source code management products (e.g.Microsoft TFS, Github, Azure DevOps) for defect and test case & task management
* Proven experience with test automation.
Proven experience in one or more of the following automated test tools:
* Test Project
* JMeter
* Jasmine
* ProtractorJs
* NodeJs
* OWASP
For more information, please contact Julie Harding on (phone number removed) /