Senior Test Engineer

The Royal Society of Chemistry ,
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £40,828 per annum

Overview

The Royal Society of Chemistry is a professional body, a membership organisation and an international publisher with the goal of advancing excellence in the chemical sciences. With close to 600 employees, based in Cambridge, London and internationally, we do this by publishing high quality chemistry journals, books and magazines, by engaging with our circa 54,000 members and by interacting with our community to raise the profile of chemistry and ensuring high quality standards within the chemical sciences. As a result the RSC is always changing and evolving to meet its customer, member and chemistry community’s needs both for the present and future. Position: Senior Test Engineer Location: Cambridge (commutable from Alconbury, Bedford, Bury St Edmunds, Cambridgeshire, Cambridge North, Cherry Hinton, Chesterton, Ely, Fen Drayton, Fenstanton, Histon & Impington, Hitchin, Huntingdon, Longstanton, Milton, Newmarket, Northstowe, Oakington, Orchard-Park, Royston, Saffron Walden, Somersham, St Ives, St Neots, Stevenage, Swavesey, Waterbeach, Wyton and surrounding areas) Job type: Full Time, Permanent Hours: 35 hour per week Salary: £40,828 to £45,363 per annum plus benefits Benefits: Excellent contributory pension scheme, generous paid holidays, 35-hour (for full-time staff) working week, learning and career development, subsidised staff restaurant (Cambridge office), staff sports and social club, free private healthcare plan, income protection scheme, critical illness insurance, life assurance, free on-site parking (Cambridge office), season ticket, car / motor cycle and cycle to work schemes, membership subscription, employee assistance programme, eye-care at work scheme, wellness initiatives, flexible work environment, employee recognition, long service awards, membership subscription to professional body and RSC, two discounted staff flats on-site (Cambridge office), Litmus reward gateway benefits and more. About the role: The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is looking for a Senior Test Engineer to join us on a permanent full-time (35-hour week) basis. You will be conveniently based at our Science Park Cambridge office (free on-site parking, close to the guided bus-way and Cambridge North train station). The Royal Society of Chemistry's testing team is part of our Applications Development team which also includes software developers and an Agile coach. Our testing team includes a lead and test engineers at senior and junior levels. As a Senior Test Engineer for the Royal Society of Chemistry, you will develop and support a variety of test automation solutions and be responsible for testing all of our software products. About you: - Experience of working in a fast-paced Agile environment and of building robust test automation solutions from scratch. - Well versed in best patterns and practices around automated testing and have the ability to define new automation processes and procedures. - Excellent exploratory testing experience. - Good scripting and troubleshooting experience with C#. - Experience of working in Agile / DevOps environments, familiar with Scrum / Kanban. - Experience of software management tools (e.g. Jira and Confluence). - Understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI / CD) pipelines. - Attention to detail, with a logical approach to problem solving and an investigative and inquisitive mind. - Understanding of user needs, user stories, and a business outcome approach to work. - A professional attitude, building and maintaining relationships with our customers and demonstrating a customer-focused behaviour at all times. - Strong team player with excellent communication skills and stakeholder management. Desirable: - Experience of working in a cloud environment (e.g. AWS). - Knowledge of cross-browser testing tools (e.g. BrowserStack). - Load and performance testing. - Certified in Agile software testing (e.g. ISTQB Agile foundation). You may have experience of the following: Senior QA Engineer, Test Engineer, IT, QA, Engineer, Engineering, Development, Tester, Quality Assurance, Test Automation, Senior Test Engineer, etc. Ref: 92755

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