QA Engineer - Cambridge

Circle Recruitment ,
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £30,000 per annum

Overview

QA Engineer - Cambridge QA Engineer with experience of both manual and automated testing, with ideally Rest API testing, black box testing and working in a DevOps environment is required by a leading technology company based in Cambridge. For this type of tester role, you need to have worked in code in commercial roles. You don't need to be an expert but some familiarity good in languages such as Java or SQL would be very useful Offering flexible working, such as a few days working from home, they are about to launch their product globally after being a huge success in the UK. You will also work with the latest testing technologies and it is very much a DevOps environment. Experience required: Black box functional testing in an agile environment Ideally a mix manual functional testing and automated testing Understanding of the principles of RESTful APIs and be comfortable with the basics of both Windows and Linux Operating Systems You must be an excellent communicator as the role will involve engaging with all parts of the business, taking part in Scrum meetings and have a say on what ways to do the testing (there may be multiple approaches that you have to use from time to time) Desirable: Prior use of Java (or another OOP language such as Python etc), Selenium, TestNG or Junit Experience in of testing in a fully-fledged DevOps environment What will you be testing daily? It will be middle tier - involved in testing API's and databases. Nothing overly technical but some familiarity with coding is needed. The manual testing is quite complex, including deployment on Linux environments etc. It is a fully Agile team, you will be working with the product owners and software engineers daily and become an integral part of the software team. They have a couple of roles and will take on people with either with a couple of years of software testing experience, but have that drive to learn or fully-fledged Software tester who is still passionate about software testing but wants to work with the latest technologies and progress to more senior levels My client is looking to pay a starting salary of £30,000 - £45,000 Benefits, including flexible working (some home working) new offices in Cambridge. To apply press apply now or send your CV to matthew.leach circlerecruitment.com You can also call me on or add me on LinkedIn Keywords - QA Engineer - Automation - Java - API testing - Black box functional Testing - Cambridge Circle Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Earn yourself a referral bonus if you refer somebody else who fills the role We also offer an iPad if you refer a new client to us and we recruit for them. Follow us on Facebook - Circle Recruitment , Twitter - Circle_Rec and LinkedIn - Circle Recruitment.