Quality Assurance Tester - 6 months - Remote - BPSS

Role: QA
Duration: 6 months
Rate: £450 (Inside of IR35)
Location: Remote
1 Stage Interview
Start Date: ASAP
Clearance: BPSS

Must Have Government Experience

Essential Criteria

Demonstrable skills in a modern programming language and software engineering practices and aptitude to learn more.

Experience building and maintaining comprehensive, robust, and reliable automated tests against UI's and/or API's including contributing to improving frameworks and automation suites.

Experience of the testing life cycle from understanding business needs from delivery to production. Including test generation, reporting and defect management.

Adaptable team player who understands agile ways of working and shift left principles eg CI/CD.

Responsible for writing, debugging and refactoring test code.

At this role level, you will:

• Work closely with software developers to reach a common understanding of the code base and test coverage at unit level
• Collaborate with analysts to ensure the required business scenarios are covered in the acceptance test scripts
• Work on both functional and non-functional areas of an application
• Coach and mentor testers

Nice to have

Knowledge of non-functional testing eg Performance, Security and Accessibility - including test types, test tools, and standards, Cucumber BDD