QA Engineer – Fintech, Selenium, Tester
Quant Capital is urgently looking for a QA Engineer to join our high profile client.
The QA Engineer will work in conjunction with the business analysts to understand what enhancements are being made to the system as well as working with the developers to understand their implementation of the requirements. Testing and quality is a team effort, but the QA should focus on keeping these standards high in the team.
QA Engineer will be part of a development team working through new projects and maintenance tasks. They will have a specific focus on performance and load testing, being able to offer advice, strategy and direction to the test team on these issues. They will be hands on with these tasks and also overseeing this type of testing across the team.
The QA Engineer will also be responsible for:
~ Develop the performance and load testing strategy for the product
Execute this strategy through hands on delivery of items and by assisting other teams to bring these concepts into their own testing
Take ownership of the testing and quality inside of your team
Work with the other QA members of your team to ensure that all work produced by your team meets your own high standards
Ensure that regression testing is cleared with each release
Perform any manual testing that is required
The stack is Ruby, Maven, HTML5 with some Angular and Node in parts.
QA Engineers Must have:
• 4 years testing experience
• 2 years of experience in testing high-throughput systems for performance and load characteristics
• Working in an Agile, Scrum, Kanban, BDD, TDD environment on a Web or API delivered product
• Experience of extending regression test coverage, prioritising based on business risk
• ISEB/ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation level or above
Good understanding of different testing techniques (Boundary Value analysis, Equivalence Partitioning, state transition)
Computer Science degree or equivalent
Experience in a Financial Services environment or similar, where the product needs to have a high level of quality
The environment is that of Facebook or Google, relaxed open with time to think and make the right decisions. Tester, QA, Quality Assurance, Ruby, Java, Ruby on Rails, CSS, HTML5, Linux REST, Javascript, Testing
