Sr QA Test Engineer

Role- Sr QA Test Engineer

Location- London, UK

Type- Hybrid (1/2 days in office per week)

Nature- Contract - Inside IR35

* Having the ability to understand existing and new products being developed by the team to enable you to fully test all the functionality.

* Create and document automated and manual test plans/scripts that can be used against any product within the product range.
* Ensuring any new products meet the requirements and specifications that have been defined by the Products Team and obtaining sign off for deployment into the live environment following a successful test.
* Executing built test cases (manual or automated) and analysing the results.
* Undertake all levels of testing (System, Integration, and Regression).
* Recording all defects discovered during test periods and produce reports outlining the issues discovered to the developers and management teams.
* Manage any software bugs discovered ensuring they are recorded and prioritised correctly.
* During maintenance release windows conduct post-release regression testing across all products to ensure the systems are fit for purpose, the results should be recorded and retained for auditing purposes.
* Manage the test environments by controlling and recording applications that have been or are about to be deployed into each system.
* Monitoring the existing hardware platforms and Vantage products daily to ensure they are in a healthy state and running as expected. Escalating any discovered issues to the relevant teams.
* Proven experience as a Quality Assurance Tester or similar role for complex systems.
* Experience in Service Delivery in a development team.
* The ability to build and manage automated test scripts using software tools.
* Working knowledge of test management software (e.g. qTest, Zephyr, Bugzilla, Cucumber) as well as a good understanding of SQL.

* Good working knowledge of Java, HTML, CSS and Javascript.
* Knowledge and experience of Microsoft Office 365 packages.
* Knowledge of the AWS Cloud infrastructure

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