Job description
Software Tester
Agile, Automated and Manual
Southampton
Salary Negotiable DOE
A great new opportunity for a Software Tester to join a unique software house based near Southampton.
You will be testing award winning software applications used in a variety of secure sights around the world.
Key Skills
- Agile tester - estimate the scope and size of the testing effort for each user story
- Functional and non-functional tests the user story will have to pass.
- Assess testability - You'll be involved in the design of the software by working closely with developers to assess and advise on testability aspects
- You'll also be looking at concerns such as whether software testing can be automated, whether components can be tested independently from the rest of the package, and how much information is written to the log files
- Design and execute test cases - The team will be writing functional, performance, and automated unit tests, as well as creating scripts to automatically deploy code into test environments and execute the tests. You will design and execute automated and manual tests, including exploratory testing
- Testing at the component and API level, end to end
- Testing non-functional requirements sometimes referred to as the 'ilities', security, reliability, maintainability, scalability, useability etc
- Look for opportunities to automate tests and deployment scripts and develop test automation frameworks for your team and the rest of the agile release train.
- Identify defects in code and pass to development team, ensure they can use your system to debug so the problem is fixed asap
- Aim to fix and verify bugs within the same sprint
- After each sprint, your team will review and update the estimates of upcoming user stories based on the team's experience from the previous sprint and re-plan upcoming sprints based on the new estimates, which should be improving over time
- Contribute to daily stand-up meetings - share obstacles that may prevent you from making progress as a tester on the team
- Focus on sprint burndown, velocity and release burndown
- Testing .Net and Angular software applications
If you are interested please send your CV to lesleymorgan@spectrumit.co.uk
