QA Engineer

QA Engineer

Inside IR35 - Onsite

Our client who are working with aleading technology company based in Northampton have an opportunity for 4 QA engineers to join their team for an initial 4 month contract.

**Skills required**:

- Relevant experience in a QA Engineer role.
- ISTQB (or equivalent) Foundation Level certification is desirable.
- Good problem solving and analytical skills.
- Experience in identifying, defining and developing detailed test cases and automated test scripts to test against all relevant product requirements and assure traceability to those test cases
- Good knowledge of IT/network communications protocols (IPv6, DNS, TFTP, UDP)
- Experience in using Waterfall, Agile, and V-model test methodologies
- Experience in log analysis.
- Experience in HP ALM and Jira.
- Define and impletementing Test Scripts with a Selenium based Automation Framework.
- Experience in Behaviour Driven Development (BDD).
- Expert in Defect management
- Soft skills used for cross Supplier Triage
- Knowledge of the SDLC.
- Industry experience with defect management systems and workflows.

**Desirable skills**:

- Knowledge - Devices (GBCS, Zigbee), Networks, IT and Sm2m.
- Good knowledge of short range radio and protocols(ZigBee, IEEE 802.15.4(g), mesh radio)Demonstrable experience of writing SQL scripts for data extraction and validation purposes.
- Experience with a focus on radio and protocol testing
- Some experience in Service Virtualisation, Test Data Management and TDM tools (Delphix, CA).
- Experience in the following industries: metering, utilities, telecommunications (non IT)
- Knowledge in DLMS/COSEM for smart electricity and gas meters (ideally SMETS knowledge).

**QA Engineer**

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