Automation/ QA Engineer

Dublin - QA Analyst

Responsibilities

  • Document and execute high quality test plans for functional areas under custom development and test
  • Analyse complex requirements and review acceptance criteria to ensure they are for fit for purpose, testable and can have tests developed to explicitly test and guide acceptance
  • Create comprehensive and well defined test scripts that are traceable back to requirements
  • Execution of functional, regression and integration test scripts
  • Lead/participate in defect triage discussions and challenge development perception of severity
  • Co-ordination of test activities and work as part of a scrum team
  • Interrogate the underlying databases to extract test data and execute SQL statements to prove test results
  • Develop and execute technical tests to prove the load and performance of the solution
  • Contribute to management reporting including appropriate test metrics on planning, defects and execution.
  • Ensure regression testing is performed in a manner that recognizes the risks of introducing defects into the environment
  • Work closely with the development teams to provide information and direction to junior team members
  • Escalate risks and issues to the appropriate level to ensure resolution
  • Support test management in developing project plans and track against key milestone dates

Skills

  • Experience of Salesforce
  • Experience in testing Oracle Databases a distinct advantage
  • Experience in integration testing a distinct advantage
  • Excellent client-facing skills
  • People management skills - introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions
  • Team work and emotional intelligence
  • Good self-management – continuous performance is both an objective and a mind-set
  • Has an innovative approach – a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance
  • High value on openness and transparency

Experience

  • Experience within a software quality assurance / testing role
  • A Computer Science/I.T. related degree
  • ISTQB certification in Software Testing
  • Technical skills - Oracle, SQL, UNIX, Agile preferential
  • Non-functional testing experience advantageous

Benefits

  • Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and challenges.
  • We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
  • Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
  • Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
  • Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo