QA Test Engineer

Works within a multidisciplinary team or in an environment in which multidisciplinary teamwork is carried out.

Is mainly responsible for testing and validating the quality of the software output through automated test scripts, and develop, coordinate, communicate and enforce testing schedules and critical deliverables.

The range of tasks includes the following:

Own the test and quality assurance processes

Write and automate test cases

Perform acceptance test of user stories on a day-to-day basis in an automated manner

Drive the squad's test strategy and test efforts, e.g. taking initiative to automate where possible and coaching others

Perform end-to-end automated tests in relation to larger releases with external stakeholders

Own the process during test periods where functionality is tested across several squads and departments

Be an active participant in grooming and planning, to ensure that acceptance criteria are testable

Sit together with designers, SMEs and Product Owner while user stories are developed, bringing input and helping with the testing angle

Work in an agile/scrum environment, meeting sprint commitments and contributing to the agile process

Maintain traceability of testing activities

Write and Executing test cases manually / automated

Manual front end functional testing of applications -- which includes system, integration, regression and end to end testing as well as exploratory testing

Collaborate closely with developers, identifying, logging, prioritizing and verifying defects in a defect tracking system

Managing and maintaining the test environments and test data

First line support and root cause analysis of production issues and proactive, friendly, transparent and efficient support service

Playing a key role in defining best practices for testing in an agile environment

Continuous improvement initiatives specifically about quality

Product risk mitigation thereby limiting defects in production

Project risk mitigation thereby ensuring a smooth deployment process

Managing and maintaining the regression test suites (manual / automated)

Carry out exploratory testing

Drive the squad's test strategy and test efforts, e.g. taking initiative to automate where possible and coaching others

Perform end-to-end automated tests in relation to larger releases with external stakeholders

Own the process during test periods where functionality is tested across several squads and departments

Be an active participant in grooming and planning, to ensure that acceptance criteria are testable

Sit together with designers, SMEs and Product Owner while user stories are developed, bringing input and helping with the testing angle

Work in an agile/scrum environment, meeting sprint commitments and contributing to the agile process

Maintain traceability of testing activities

Estimating effort for testing tasks

Defining the test approach for each sprint

Extracting test requirements for user stories

Designing and creating test cases

Final sign-off of releases

More than 3 years of experience in Quality Assurance field and/or as a Software Developer

You can program (we use Java, Python or JavaScript) or are interested in learning to program.

You know how to write SQL.

You know where it is most effective for an automated test to live. (Unit, Integration, E2E)

You can speak the same language as the developers.

You understand the benefits of manual testing but also the costs.

You are continually trying to improve your testing skills.

You will need to help solve the complex testing issues we face.

Strong experience working with testing frameworks and tools like Selenium, Cypress, TestNG, Junit, Appium, Espresso, Postman, Rest Assured, jMeter etc.

Understanding of CI/CD concepts and best practices including build and source control automation tools such as Jenkins, Git, MS Azure Devops

Knowledge of test automation, Mobile Testing, TDD, BDD, functional testing, SIT, regression testing, performance testing, GUI testing, web service testing, and browser compatibility testing

Several years of experience within software development and knowledge of an Agile software development process

Good understanding of auto-scaling software solutions and monitoring tools (Splunk)

Good understanding of the E2E system landscape

Experience with API/Web Service testing

Knowledgeability of banking processes and customer needs

Experience within DevOps culture and tools is a plus