Software Quality Assurance Tester

Software Quality Assurance Tester -Guildford

Circa £30k

Our client is an established, dynamic and successful software company, supplying leading edge software applications. A market leader worldwide, with an enviable list of major household names as customers. They are looking for someone to champion data quality within our QA team.

A key role within the organisations Quality Assurance team, you will be responsible for providing confidence in the product, as well as reviewing existing manual test structures and taking part in exploratory testing. The key aims of this role are:

Identify quality risks and issues
Develop mitigation plans and drive them to completion
Ensure releases have low data quality risk
Feed our innovation cycle with continuous improvements to help customers manage data quality

Responsibilities

Use analytical techniques, exploratory testing & regression testing to pro-actively identify quality risks & issues
Document risks & issues and work with others in the organisation to mitigate them
Extend quality test coverage by developing new tests, plans and suites
Brief automation engineers to enable them to extend the coverage of automated tests
Assess work items for quality risks at the user acceptance level and sign them off for release
Maintain allergen risk test plans

Attributes:

A motivating, positive and can-do attitude
Highly organized and able to multi-task.
Self-driven and proactive nature.
Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
A strong strategic vision for quality assurance
Passion for great service.
Proactive, motivated, calm and show initiative, friendly with a good sense of humour.
Commercially aware
Structured, focused on priorities and competent in building relationships within teams.

Experience

Experience within a fast paced, dynamic and entrepreneurial SME company
Between 1 to 3 years’ experience in Quality Assurance
You have experience managing test plans and developing test structures
Applying technical related skills, with knowledge of Selenium & C#