Quality Assurance (QA) Tester

Our client is a Market Leader in Cloud Solutions and Telecommunications Technology with an impressive portfolio of state-of-the-art products.  Due to continued growth, investment and product development; Human Capital Ventures is acting a preferred partner in the recruitment of a Quality Assurance (QA) Tester to play an integral role within their Software Delivery Function. The successful candidate will receive extensive training on our client’s product suite, architecture and development practices becoming a value member of the development team.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Providing software testing and quality assurance activities to new software and product releases
• Triage and investigation of reported issues with live applications, ensuring they are being properly tackled and work to actively prevent regression.
• Designing and implementing a regression test suite
• Evaluating our current test strategy, looking for constant development and process improvement.

• Liaising with developers and stakeholders to scope and estimate testing requirements

Skills & Experience

• Triage work - precise analysis of logs generated by tests to identify issues
• Solid understanding and some experience of automation
• Regression testing - identifying weaknesses/vulnerable areas in the software
• Black box and functional testing - requires candidates to quickly gain an in-depth knowledge of the software
• Integration testing – design and execute test cases on a modular basis using internal API’s
• End to end testing - simulate customer environment to analyse full functionality
• Understanding of telecommunications technology, contact centres, telephony or VoIP
• Creativity in designing test cases

Term:       Permanent

Salary:      £35,000 - £40,000 + Benefits

Location:  Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire