At a Glance
- Tasks: Perform hands-on quality assurance and manual testing for reliable product releases.
- Company: Join a dynamic team in a fast-paced Agile environment.
- Benefits: Gain valuable experience and enhance your skills in a supportive setting.
- Other info: Collaborate with developers and improve QA processes while growing your career.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by ensuring top-notch product quality and performance.
- Qualifications: Degree in IT or related field, with 3 years of QA experience.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
Overview
Execute hands-on quality assurance activities, primarily manual testing, to ensure stable and reliable product releases.
Collaborate closely with Developers, Product Owners, and Business Analysts to ensure solutions meet functional, non-functional, performance, and scalability requirements.
Design, maintain, and execute test artefacts including test plans, test cases, acceptance criteria, and regression test suites.
Manage the full defect lifecycle, including accurate logging, prioritisation, investigation, escalation, and verification through to resolution.
Validate backend data integrity and test outcomes using SQL queries and database checks.
Analyse application behaviour and performance using logs and metrics (e. g.
Splunk) to identify quality risks.
Perform API validation using tools such as Postman.
Support deployments to test and staging environments using SSH and Git.
Work within AWS environments (including S3, EC2, RDS, and Lambda) to support QA and testing activities.
Design and execute complex test scenarios across multiple browsers and platforms.
Prepare, manage, and maintain appropriate test data to support functional and end-to-end testing.
Ensure effective fault reporting, monitoring, and communication throughout the testing lifecycle.
Participate in root cause analysis of defects and incidents.
Contribute to improving QA processes, standards and best practices.
Foster a positive, solution-focused approach, providing clear, constructive, and open feedback.
Requirements
- Degree-level education in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience working as a QA Engineer in a fast-paced Agile environment
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban
- Experience across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Lifecycle (STLC)
- Proven experience in manual testing across functional and non-functional requirements
- Hands-on experience testing APIs using tools such as Postman or Swagger
- Comfortable working with Unix/Linux command line environments
- Experience working closely with developers and coordinating test and release branches using Git
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- ISTQB Certified Tester – Foundation Level (or equivalent) - Desirable
- Exposure to non-functional testing areas such as performance, scalability, load, or security testing - Desirable
- Experience with Git version control, including Gitflow branching strategies - Desirable
- Knowledge of media file formats and metadata (e. g. XML) - Desirable
- Familiarity with Digital Cinema Industry (DCI) file types and standards - Desirable
- Awareness of scripting or programming languages such as PHP, Python, or Java Script - Desirable
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