Quality Assurance/ QA Engineer

QA Engineer/ Quality Assurance Engineer
£25,000- £35,000 per annum
Staffordshire
Permanent

Are you a QA Engineer specialising in automation testing looking for an exciting new role to start the new year? Are you ready for a fresh challenge where you can develop your skills and support a growing industry leader in software development specifically targeted to an ever-growing market?

The Role. If you're successful for the role here's what to expect:

• You will be working alongside the development team in delivery fit for purpose products at a high standard of quality within an agile organisation.
• You will be in control of improving the quality of contributions from your team working alongside Developers and Product Owners.
• You will adopt a range of agile techniques including Pair and Mob Programming, Code Refactoring, TDD and Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment.
• You will be supporting and challenging during the creation of Acceptance Criteria, User Stories, Test Plans and Software Solutions.
• You will be collaborating to ensure defect prevention, minimise issues and produce high quality products and software.
• You will incorporate and execute the best practises for testing, quality, processes and activities throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Comfortable working from home with the occasional travel to the office as and when required.

Technologies used:

• C# (Resharper, Visual Studio)
• Web (MVC, WebAPI, ASP.NET)
• Object Relational Mapping
• Testing (NUnit, MOQ, Cypress)
• Service Orientated Architecture (WCF, REST)
• SQL Server, Postgres and Cassandra (NoSQL), CruiseControl.NET

You. To be considered for the role of QA Engineer you should have the following skills and experience:

• Experienced in software quality assurance with strong working knowledge of QA methodologies, tools and processes which include Functional and Non- Function Testing
• Previous experience in working with automated testing in Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment environment
• Experience working in a highly agile environment
• Good working knowledge of UI or API monitoring and testing software

The Package. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a friendly, tight knit team in an up-and-coming software development company. You'll enjoy a great range of benefits including:

• 23 days holiday plus bank holidays + 1 day for each year of service
• Flexible working hours
• Remote working
• Access to a range of learning tools and resources to use at your leisure
• A great social scene including an annual sports day and a fantastic Christmas party

Interview slots are filling up fast so if you would like to be considered for this role please click 'apply now' or if you would like to hear more about this role please contact Samantha Lilley at Vantage Consulting on or call 01785 719739.