Guardian Professional Hiring for QA Tester Job at London, England Full Time

Based in London, Guardian Professional is a growing, forward looking business that offers its employees career development and a fast-paced, collegial, working environment.

We offer recruitment services designed to meet our client’s business needs. From planning, all the way through to onboarding and induction, we strive to support clients to the whole recruitment process

We are looking for a QA Tester for one of the leading companies in the FinTech sector.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for conducting tests before product launches to ensure software runs smoothly and meets client needs, while being cost-effective.
• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Monitor all stages of software development to identify and resolve system malfunctions to meet quality standards.
• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
• Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open source tools
• Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
• Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs
• Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements
• Monitor debugging process results
• Investigate the causes of non-conforming software and train users to implement solutions
• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts
• Stay up to date with new testing tools and test strategies

Requirements

• Proven work experience in software development
• Experience with API Testing ( Swagger, PostMan etc) and Jira
• Deep understanding of various functional testing types (e.g Regression, Integration,UI etc.)
• Experience in mobile application testing is a plus
• ISTQB – Foundation certificate in software testing would be advantageous.
• Proven work experience in software quality assurance
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus

Job Type: Full-time

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: One location