Software Development Engineer / Test SDET -Testing [VA] - remote

Job Description

• Work within an agile, self-organizing Scrum team
• Thorough knowledge of software testing methodologies and techniques
• Participate in team meetings to discuss, understand, refine and estimate backlog items
• Participate in team meetings to plan sprint work
• Create test cases that cover the expected functionality and acceptance criteria documented in user stories and other appropriate backlog items
• Identify complex requirements and features and discuss with test and development leads and management to outline test cases
• Participate in creating test plans
• Carry out manual testing of test cases
• Carry out explorative and regression testing where appropriate
• Carry out QA on any solutions implemented for user stories and other backlog items during a sprint prior to the backlog item being deemed finished, done or completed
• Identify test cases that may be candidates for automation
• Be able to, or working towards writing and running automation
• Use the positive and open attitude promoted across the teams to discuss problems and provide support to others
• Communicate effectively with different team members across the company to ensure that the solutions developed match Cegedim Rx requirements.
• Ownership of the testing and quality for your allocated team.

Job Requirements

Essential skills and experience:

• Three or more years working in a quality assurance role
• ISTQB Software Testing Foundation certification is a plus
• They must be detail orientated and have a good understanding of test methodologies
• They need the ability to work autonomously and manage their own workload
• They should be a team player with excellent communications skills and have a history of building a good report with developers
• They should be able to innovate and implement new tools for testing purposes when required
• Testing in an agile environment

Technical / functional skills required

• Past experience as a Software Developer is a must
• Significant experience of testing desktop applications, RESTful web services and enterprise scale solutions
• Significant experience of automation testing
• Desirable to have experience of developing or writing test automation for XAML-based applications using MVVM architecture

Desirable skills and experience:

• Atlassian tool suite, including JIRA and Confluence
• Pharmacy, GP or Healthcare domain experience
• JMeter, Swagger for API testing
• Knowledge of 1 Programming language
• Experience of creating test frameworks.
• Experience of test automation using BDD techniques and associated tooling such as Cucumber, Jenkins and Rest Assured