Senior QA Engineer

Senior QA Engineer

Lisbon

Who are we?

We are ranked as the UK’s #1 construction specific software player and our mission is simple; to provide market leading end-to-end software solutions to the construction and construction like industries across the entire build life cycle.

If you are looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. Our teams are based in the UK, Europe, and India, working on products that are used on a global scale. We have a clear and defined road map to deliver over the next 3 years, which is centred around a large-scale digital transformation as well as continuing our growth and expansion.

We embrace diversity and equality and want our employees to be comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. Creating a culture of Equality isn’t just the right thing to do, it improves every aspect of our business.

Purpose

Our technology is used by thousands of companies and affects millions of lives. You will be responsible for the quality of software development and deployment. You will be involved in performing and creating automated and/or manual tests to ensure the software created by Developers is fit for purpose.

The Senior QA Engineer will report to the Agile Delivery Lead or Technical Delivery Lead.

The key areas of responsibility for the Senior QA Engineer include:

• Technical Delivery
• Technical Innovation
• Analysis of software, and systems, mitigate risk and prevent software issues.

Key Responsibilities

• Test technical solutions including complex components, whilst maintaining quality standards.
• Collaborate closely with other team members and departments.
• Execute all levels of testing (System, Integration, and Regression).
• Analyse user stories and/or use cases/requirements for validity and feasibility.
• Mentor team members in an open, respectful, flexible and empathetic manner.
• Help team members overcome obstacles concerning their work.
• Detect and track software defects and inconsistencies.
• Provide timely execution of tests.
• Apply quality engineering principles throughout the Agile product lifecycle.
• Provide support and documentation.
• Determine and agree on quality procedures, standards or specifications and ensure that they are always met.
• Estimate effort required to accomplish requirements and ensure that schedules are met.
• Ensure technical products are tested accurately, based on best practice standards, and on time to help support business objectives.
• Make suggestions to improve and support the testing lifecycle.
• Produce high-quality test plans, documentation and reports as required and complex test scripts.
• Document bug replication steps clearly, along with additional relevant information. Can set up complex replication steps.
• Communicate frequently with QA, Scrum Master, and Development Manager.
• Take responsibility for your personal development, ensuring that knowledge and skills are up to date and maintained, including emerging trends that may be relevant to solutions being developed.
• Continuously strive for innovative solutions and make suggestions for improvements that will provide a benefit to the business in terms of improved efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity.
• Be willing to listen to and support colleagues, devoting time to sharing knowledge, infusing confidence, and expressing positive expectations.

Key Skills, Experience & Qualifications

Essential:

• Experience with automated testing tools.
• Experience of working in a manual testing role in a software environment, developing and executing tests to validate system functionality against specifications.
• Document bug replication steps clearly, along with additional relevant information. Can set up complex replication steps.
• Able to produce high-quality test plans, documentation and reports as required and complex test scripts.
• Experience of automated testing frameworks & writing automated test scripts.
• Can accurately debug & refactor code within the automated framework.
• Awareness of current trends and developments in software testing.
• Experience Agile (Scrum) methodologies.
• Good knowledge of quality standards, legislation and best practice.
• Degree level or equivalent education preferred in a relevant subject such as computer science, software engineering etc.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Experience in data analysis.<