Quality Assurance Tester

Huxley ,
London, Greater London
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £25,000 per annum

Overview

Quality Assurance Tester City of London £25,000 - £45,000 This is an opportunity to join the QA team of a creative, leading web trading software company. The market leader in web trading technology and single-dealer platforms. Its award-winning software enables its customers to build high-performance web trading apps and to deliver real-time information, including live prices, securely and reliably to those apps. This is an outstanding opportunity for a person wanting to bring their skills to an organisation at the leading edge of web-based trading technology and with blue-chip global financial clients. Responsibilities: You will be working with an agile team of cross-disciplined developers and testers. Raise, track and take ownership of issues Manage the release preparation process. eg. Manage 'bug bashes' Perform manual and exploratory testing to effectively identify issues and gaps in automated regression test cases. Ensure Continuous Improvement through metrics Working hand in hand with business representatives and consumers, you will validate proposed features, perform requirement analysis, identify edge cases and define acceptance criteria. Advocate for quality in all aspects of the SDLC as per the Quality Strategy Ensure Quality Agile best practices are followed eg. stories meet the Definition Of Ready, Definition Of Ready for Test, and the Definition for Done Build your finance domain knowledge so that you can test meaningfully Technical skills: Comfortable reading code (ideally Java, C, or Javascript) with the ability to identify errors. Good knowledge of apps and environments (front and back end) including set-up and deploy, having an understanding of multiple operating systems (e.g. Unix and Windows). Understand Continuous Integration eg. Jenkins Ability to checkout code from repository eg. Git / Stash Can use build tools eg. Maven, gradle, yarn to start apps Expertise using tools of the testing trade (Web Dev Tools, Postman, Wiremock, DamJS, Profilers etc) Role is approx 75% Manual and 25% Automation Quality Assurance Tester City of London £25,000 - £45,000 To find out more about Huxley, please visit www.huxley.com Huxley, a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy | Registered office | 1st Floor, 75 King William Street, London, EC4N 7BE, United Kingdom | Partnership Number | OC387148 England and Wales