Software Quality Assurance Engineer (Banking Experience Preferred)

• Drive the squad’s test strategy and test efforts, e.g. taking initiative to automate where possible and coaching others.

• Perform end-to-end automated tests in relation to larger releases with external stakeholders.

• Own the process during test periods where functionality is tested across several squads and departments.

• Be an active participant in grooming and planning, to ensure that acceptance criteria are testable.

• Sit together with designers, SMEs and Product Owner while user stories are developed, bringing input and helping with the testing angle.

• Work in an agile/scrum environment, meeting sprint commitments and contributing to the agile process.

• Maintain traceability of testing activities and estimate effort for testing tasks.

• Defining the test approach for each sprint.

• Extracting test requirements for user stories.

• Designing and creating test cases.

• Write and Executing test cases manually / automated.

• Manual front end functional testing of applications – which includes system, integration, regression and end to end testing as well as exploratory testing.

• Collaborate closely with developers, identifying, logging, prioritizing and verifying defects in a defect tracking system.

• Managing and maintaining the test environments and test data.

• First line support and root cause analysis of production issues and proactive, friendly, transparent and efficient support service.

• Playing a key role in defining best practices for testing in an agile environment

• Continuous improvement initiatives specifically with regard to quality.

• Product risk mitigation thereby limiting defects in production.

• Project risk mitigation thereby ensuring a smooth deployment process.

• Managing and maintaining the regression test suites (manual / automated).

• Carry out exploratory testing and final sign-off of releases.

Required Experience and Skills:

• More than 3 years of experience in Quality Assurance.

• You can program (we use Java, Python or JavaScript) or are interested in learning to program.

• You know how to write SQL.

• You know where it is most effective for an automated test to live. (Unit, Integration, E2E)

• You can speak the same language as the developers.

• You understand the benefits of manual testing but also the costs.

• You are continually trying to improve your testing skills.

• You will need to help solve the complex testing issues we face.

• Strong experience working with testing frameworks and tools similar to Selenium, Cypress, TestNG, Junit, Appium, Espresso, Postman, Rest Assured, jMeter etc.

• Understanding of CI/CD concepts and best practices including build and source control automation tools such as Jenkins, Git, MS Azure Devops.

• Knowledge of test automation, Mobile Testing, TDD, BDD, functional testing, SIT, regression testing, performance testing, GUI testing, web service testing, and browser compatibility testing.

• Several years of experience within software development and knowledge of an Agile software development process.

• Good understanding of auto-scaling software solutions and monitoring tools (Splunk).

• Good understanding of the E2E system landscape.

• Experience with API/Web Service testing.

• Knowledgeable of banking processes and customer needs • Experience within a DevOps culture and tools is a plus.

Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: In person