Hermes Jobs – Manual QA Tester In Cambridge

Overview

Position Title: Manual QA Tester

Company: Hermes

Location: Cambridge, 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.

They will gain an in-depth understanding of Hermes parcel life-cycle (physical and logical). Will maintain test team standards and processes and promote a positive view of the test function.

Responsibilities:

• Create and document comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases.
• Testing the modules and component parts of the application in isolation and integrated
• Work with developers to understand the flow of code
• Staying up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies.
• Tracking quality assurance metrics around defects.
• Implement datasets to support, functional, integration and E2E testing activities
• Estimating, prioritising, planning and coordinating quality testing activities.
• Support on the investigation and troubleshoot of issues and non-conforming software.
• Liaise with Product Owners and Technical Business Analyst to understand requirements
• Identify potential issues and escalate to the team and prime testers
• Execute tests during the development lifecycle, at sprint and release level
• Recognise routine tasks as learning opportunities and seek ways to improve/automate
• Logging test executions and tracking defects.
• Analyse requirements to identify all relevant tests scenarios and edge cases.
• Support automation testers on shifting left critical scenarios

Requirements:

• Prepare software defect tracking and report the entire project release status to stakeholders.
• Basic database interrogation skills (SQL)
• Knowledge of using software QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Familiar with queueing and data stream systems
• ISTQB certification is desirable
• Attention to detail
• Well versed in software development and testing life cycle
• Assessing the final integration QA milestone before features are deemed ready for performance testing and promotion to production
• Collaborating with squad members and support engineering to deliver stable enterprise software products to meet quality goals set up by the Product Owner
• Understanding of Test Case Scenarios written in Gherkin syntax
• Hands-on experience with black box testing
• Hands-on JIRA experience of transitioning user stories to completion
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Basic interaction with FTP and XML Structures
• Analytical mind and problem-solving aptitude
• Familiar with automation principles and desire to augment capabilities
• Basic understanding of API calls and JSON structures
• Understanding of analysing issues and Route cause
• Ability to execute regression scripts and report accurately
• Understanding of system integration testing methodologies, defect tracking systems, and Quality Assurance process
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and cases
• 2+ years of experience as a Quality Assurance Tester
• Experience working in an Agile software development team
• BSc in Computing Science or equivalent combination of training/experience