Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our team at Causeway Technologies. As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality of our software development and deployment processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform and/or create automated and manual tests to ensure software created by developers is fit for purpose.
• Collaborate closely with other team members and departments to ensure quality standards are achieved.
• Execute all levels of testing (System, Integration, and Regression).
• Analyse user stories and/or use cases/requirements for validity and feasibility.
• Help teammates overcome obstacles, resolve blockers, and complete work tasks.
• Detect and track software defects and inconsistencies.
• Provide timely execution of tests.
• Apply quality engineering principles throughout the Agile product lifecycle.
• Provide support and documentation.
• Determine and agree on quality procedures, standards or specifications and ensure that they are met at all times.
• Estimate effort required to accomplish requirements and ensure that schedules are met.
• Ensure that technical product is tested accurately, based on best practice standards, and on time and support the business objectives.
• Make suggestions to improve and support the testing lifecycle.
• Communicate frequently with QA, Scrum Master, and Development Manager.
• Take responsibility for your personal development, ensuring that knowledge and skills are up to date and maintained, including emerging trends that may be relevant to solutions being developed.
• Continuously strive for innovative solutions and make suggestions for improvements that will provide a benefit to the business in terms of improved efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity.
• Be willing to listen to and support colleagues, devoting time to sharing knowledge, infusing confidence, and expressing positive expectations.
• Ensures all code is reviewed before changes are checked into master.

Requirements:

• Tenacious, energised and motivated with a high level of commitment and passion towards achieving quality excellence.
• Strong team player with the ability to work within an Agile / Scrum framework.
• Willingness to support other team members to support team goals.
• Solution-orientated with a positive, can-do attitude and an ability to work under pressure.
• Excellent oral, presentation and written communication skills.
• Confident and able to work alongside strong personalities within the business.
• Strong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Can accurately debug & refactor code within the automated framework.
• Able to produce high-quality test plans, documentation and reports as required.
• Understand how to push and pull source code into the appropriate repo such as Git or Bitbucket.
• Ability to accurately debug & refactor code within the automated framework.
• Proficient at identifying and communicating bugs and can document replication steps.
• Execute restful API testing using tools such as Postman, and Soap UI.
• Can describe load, soak, stress, and system testing.
• 3 years of experience as a QA Engineer or similar role.
• Experience in data analysis.
• Experience with Agile (Scrum) methodologies.
• Previous experience with automated testing tools for Web applications, for example- Selenium, WebDriverIO, Playwright.
• Experience in API automation.
• Previous experience in programming languages - JavaScript/Typescript, Java etc.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks & writing automated test scripts.
• Experience working in a manual testing role in a software environment, developing and executing tests to validate system functionality against specifications.
• Understanding of the top 10 OWASP software vulnerabilities and how to exploit them.
• Good knowledge of quality standards, legislation, and best practice.
• Knows tools such as Azure & SonarCloud to accurately report test coverage.
• Understanding of automation test frameworks and building this into a CI/CD pipeline.
• Awareness of TDD (Test Driven Development) & Behaviour-driven development.

Competencies:

• Security - Understand the importance of security. Utilises this knowledge to ask Senior Engineers for help with making decisions that may have security implications.
• Programming / Software Development - Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends, and refactors moderately complex programs/scripts. Collaborates in reviews of work with others as appropriate.
• Design - Designs systems and starts solving related problems in products. Creates and documents detailed designs for simple software applications applying agreed techniques. Contributes to the design of components of larger software systems. Advises on the details of data structures and associated components. Develop appropriate design elements. Applies appropriate tools and methods to design and develop digital and offline tasks. Translates logical designs into physical designs.
• Documentation - Designs, creates, controls and evaluates moderately complex issues. Develop an understanding of content development and authoring activities. Creates materials that present information clearly and are easy for others to follow. Applies guidelines and standards to moderate content from others, escalating where appropriate.
• Incident, Change and Release Management - Maintains incident records and advises relevant persons of actions taken. Develops, documents, and implements changes based on change requests. Assesses and analyses release components.
• Database Administration / Management - Has a good understanding of the different types of databases and can assess which would be most appropriate for a specific situation.
• Business Impact - Proactive approach in a team environment. Undertakes activities for own development with little to no supervision.
• Communication and Collaboration - Communicates effectively in an audience-orientated way. Pays attention to non-verbal communication. Actively develops internal networks with other disciplines.
• Leadership - Seeks out mentorship or help from more senior members to support their own development.

What We Offer:

We believe everyone at Causeway has a vital role to play in our success. Causeway is fuelled by curiosity and is a place for people who beam with positivity and burn with ambition. Our team is everything, so we'll take good care of you. In fact, we give well-being the same priority as our other business goals. We're strong advocates of work-life balance, offering hybrid working alongside the opportunity to work from modern, collaborative offices.

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave + public holidays, increasing with length of service.
• 4% matched pension.
• Income protection and life assurance.
• Access to our award-winning benefits platform.
• We take mental health seriously and have a dedicated EAP available 24/7.
• £100 allowance towards a fitness club.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Paid study leave + volunteering days.
• Car Scheme.

Why Causeway?

We're a leader in employee engagement and people management, and we strive to achieve recognition as an award-winning workplace that our employees love. We're committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills, and views, and we believe that everyone has a vital role to play in our success.