Senior Test Automation Engineer

Dublin City Centre, Ireland

Reference	522916
Contract type	Permanent

In this role you will be working with a top-notch software development team and play a critical role in building cutting edge eReading solutions. You will apply your knowledge of QA test methodologies, practices, tools and technologies in an agile development environment. In addition to simply loving technology, you are a highly adaptable team player who thrives on driving innovation. You've got a positive, fun and supportive attitude and a passion for building quality software. You will report into the QA manager and will act as a mentor for more junior members of the team.



Responsibilities and expectations

* Represent QA and testing in all aspects of the Agile Scrum development process including Sprint Planning and daily Scrum meetings
* Creation and execution of test plans and test cases for user stories
* Execution of risk based and exploratory testing

* Log defects and work closely with developers to investigate, troubleshoot and verify defect fixes
* Take initiative to recommend and implement quality process improvements
* Involved in organizing and executing all stages of testing leading up to a successful release the product
* Mentoring and supporting team members





Required skills:

* Computer Science or Computer Engineering Degree (or equivalent experience)
* 4+ years work experience in Software Quality Assurance, automation
* A good understanding of Agile development process(Scrum methodology)
* Demonstrate superior troubleshooting skills
* Must be energetic and enthusiastic, with a passion for Software Quality
* Highly technical and able to communicate well with developers and other team members
* Wants to be involved with complex web based projects and mobile technologies
* Experienced and capability with risk based and exploratory testing

Required technical skills

* Strong knowledge of SQL and familiarity with SQL Server (Ideally 2008) Database is required
* Experience developing and/or testing custom applications built on IIS
* Experience working with web technologies such as .net, Spring framework, Javascript
* Experience working with web testing tools such as fiddler, cucumber, gherkin
* Specflow, Webdriver experience (Gherken, Cucumber)
* Selenium 2 experience
* C#, Rally, Testrail, Jmeter, Visual studio experience would be very nice to have
* Experience with cross browser and cross platform testing (IE, FF, Safari, Windows, Mac)

Expires on

5/30/13 1:39 PM

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