Hermes Courier Jobs – Junior Manual QA Tester In Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Overview

Position Title: Junior Manual QA Tester

Company: Hermes

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Job Description:

The Manual QA Tester is responsible for ensuring quality throughout the software development lifecycle working with cross-functional teams to test features from a functional and component perspective and also integrated with other systems. This role is responsible to make sure all components within the Hermes system value chain contributing to the product outcome and user experience works appropriately E2E and that the Quality Assurance standards set by the practice are met.

They will work under the guidance of Primes and Senior Testers and will be expected to collaborate very closely with other testers and engineers in order to provide a holistic view of the systems and how they integrate with each other. This will allow engineers to anticipate issues in advance to reduce errors with complex integrations downstream. The Manual QA Tester should always be looking to identify repetitive tasks that can be automated in order to reduce toil and lead time for the deployment of secure code.

Responsibilities:

• Work with developers to understand the flow of code
• Support on the investigation and troubleshoot of issues and non-conforming software.
• Identify potential issues and escalate to team and prime testers
• Regression,
• Integration,
• Executing all levels of testing regularly and no less than at every sprint:
• Staying up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies.
• Implement datasets to support, functional, integration and E2E testing activities
• Logging test executions and tracking defects.
• System – functional,
• Create and document comprehensive and well-structured test cases.
• Execute tests during the development lifecycle, at sprint and release level
• Testing the modules and component parts of the application in isolation and integrated
• Support automation testers on shifting left critical scenarios
• Recognise routine tasks as learning opportunities and seek ways to improve/automate
• Analyse requirements to identify all relevant tests scenarios and edge cases.

Requirements:

• Knowledge of different software development and testing life cycle methodologies
• Assessing the final integration QA milestone before features are deemed ready for performance testing and promotion to production
• Understanding of Test Case Scenarios written in Gherkin syntax
• Knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes and testing techniques (e.g. black and white box testing)
• Attention to detail
• Basic interaction with FTP and XML Structures
• Knowledge Agile software development principles.
• Collaborating with squad members and support engineering to deliver stable enterprise software products to meet quality goals set up by the Product Owner
• Basic understanding of API calls and JSON structures
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Analytical mind and problem-solving aptitude
• Familiar with automation principles
• Understanding of system integration testing methodologies, defect tracking systems, and Quality Assurance process
• Knowledge of database interrogation skills (SQL)