Automated qa engineer Posted by Lewis Jardine 23/3/2012

You will be part of a cross-functional team, which is responsible for delivering new venture sites and other programmes.  This is both a vital and challenging role with a large amount of responsibility. 

Among your many attributes, you are a self-starter who is comfortable within a rapidly changing environment, and you have a strong desire to learn. You will be a dedicated QA with a passion for developing automated tests.

Responsibilities

  • To ensure the release delivers applications of a quality that meet business requirements, are valuable to the end users and are fit for purpose
  • Champion and consistently improve quality within your team through automated testing
  • Work in a team using the Scrum Agile methodology.
  • Collaborate with other key stakeholders for the feature you are working on e.g. Product Managers, Technical Architects and Designers. 
  • Understanding the compliance, security and load issues for an offshore regulated gaming site based on a high volume financial transactional Database.
  • To ensure your team delivers applications of a quality that meet business requirements, are valuable to the end users and are fit for purpose

Key Skills: Essential

  • Extensive QA experience and mindset.
  • Background in automated testing or computer programming (i.e. Computer Science degree).
  • Knowledge and understanding of SQL.
  • Good communication skills both written and verbally.

Key Skills: Desirable

  • Experience of working in an Agile environment.
  • Knowledge of the following technologies would be beneficial: Ruby, Cucumber, BDD, RSpec, Java, JavaScript, CSS and HTML. 
  • Be able to pick up additional tasks outside of your core specialism in order to meet team commitments.