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Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

FDM GroupBelfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
4 days ago
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  • Temporary
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FDM Group Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

FDM Group Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Software QA Engineer to work for our client within the technology sector. This is initially a 12-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a fully remote role.

Our client is seeking an experienced Software QA Engineer to join a diverse and talented group of experienced software engineers, system architects and DevOps, providing the opportunity to further develop both your technical and leadership skills as the company continues to grow. The team focus on technology built with Python, Rust, Typescript and Angular. The role will be split evenly between manual testing of these innovative AI-enabled technologies, and automation : you will have the opportunity to build an automation framework, with support from the Head of Software QA whenever needed.

Responsibilities

  • Working with and realising the vision of our stellar team of cyber experts to address security threats for today and the future
  • Building and maintaining a quality-driven engineering culture that helps ship products with confidence
  • Working with the product engineering team to ensure quality of product / feature, assess risk and ensure features ship with a very high-quality bar
  • Specifying, creating and executing system-level functional and non-functional automated tests for services and applications for public and hybrid / private clouds, cloud APIs, client SDKs, applications and software for a variety of platforms (IoT / mobile / server / appliance / laptop)
  • Using a risk-based testing approach, analyse changes to the software to determine areas for in-depth
  • exploratory testing, defining an exploratory testing plan, executing the plan and finding hard to find bugs
  • Working within the software engineering team, defining suitable acceptance tests for each story in the backlog before being scheduled into a sprint
  • Raising defects in JIRA, and verifying the fixes
  • Helping to refine our agile development practices, ensuring the team continually delivers superior quality software by focusing on quality-driven software engineering practices
  • Working with the Product Management team to help refine requirements and workflows, and use your customer focus to ensure world-class UX
  • Investigating internal or customer related issues, identifying root cause and providing solutions
  • Reviewing technical documentation for accuracy and correctness

Requirements

  • Minimum of 5 years commercial experience of providing QA expertise in complex mission-critical enterprise software and services environments
  • Experience in defining test cases from the requirements
  • Demonstrable experience of execution test case and bug reporting and tracking
  • Experience of automated testing, working with Cypress or Selenium
  • Working knowledge of designing and developing / extending automation tools and frameworks
  • Proficiency in at least one scripting / programming language
  • Exposure to database testing (SQL and NoSQL)
  • Knowledge of VMWare is very useful
  • Experience with Linux is helpful
  • Experience working in an Agile Scrum, or Lean Kanban environment
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organisational skills
  • Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
  • Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
  • Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
  • Annual leave, work-place pension and BAYE share scheme

    • About FDM

    We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 3,500 Consultants. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

    Diversity and Inclusion

    FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.

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    Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Information Technology

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    Information Technology & Services and Technology, Information and Media

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