Test Engineer

Creditsafe Business Solutions Ltd; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Cardiff is seeking a Test Engineer to join their Agile team. The ideal candidate will have a foundational knowledge of cloud-native software testing, AWS services, and Agile methodologies. This role offers an opportunity to influence quality through functional, non-functional, and acceptance testing practices. Competitive full-time position with a focus on continuous improvement and teamwork.

Qualifications

• Understanding of Agile development methodologies.
• Willingness to learn AWS Cloud services.
• Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and testing activities.

Responsibilities

• Conduct functional, non-functional, and acceptance testing.
• Collaborate with Agile team to create test scenarios.
• Document tasks and communicate updates to stakeholders.

Skills

Agile development methodologies

AWS Cloud services

Acceptance testing

Problem solving

Tools

Cypress

Azure DevOps

Job description

Overview

Talent Acquisition Manager | CERT RP | CIPD Level 5 | CIPD South East Wales Committee member

Creditsafe are expanding their internal Customer Management platform team, the backbone of all Creditsafe products and services. We’re looking for a Test Engineer experienced in testing cloud-native software systems. This role can be Junior or Mid, but your knowledge in testing needs to be at a baseline understanding and experience in AWS and Testing technologies.

WHO ARE WE?

Privately owned and independently minded, Creditsafe prides itself on being pro-active and different. Our journey began in Oslo, Norway in 1997, where we had a dream of using the ‘revolutionary’ internet to deliver instant access company credit reports to small and medium-sized businesses. Creditsafe realised this dream and changed the market for the better, for businesses of all sizes.

Our continued success has made us the most used business data provider in the world and one of the industry’s strongest growing business intelligence providers. Today Creditsafe has 23 offices across 3 continents serving 110,000 customers from SMEs to enterprise businesses.

THE TEAM

This opportunity is to join an Agile team of system and test engineers who are responsible for a critical Creditsafe platform underpinning all our products and services. The platform is responsible for all customer provisioning, authentication, entitlement and auditing and handles millions of transactions a day. The team continue to extend the platform to support Creditsafe’s growing product portfolio whilst re-imagining using best-of-breed AWS technologies. The wider Quality Assurance community within Creditsafe work together in driving a culture of quality into the teams acting as knowledge experts on quality. We test throughout the lifecycle and believe that the whole team is responsible for the quality of our deliverables. We implement intelligent automation and are proponents of thinking critically about the features developed by our teams.

JOB PROFILE

Based on the test strategy you will:

• Interrogate and question requirements and assumptions in user stories.
• Collaborate with the Agile team throughout the Sprint to produce valuable test scenarios and respond to new information.
• Develop, enhance, and execute tests that add value to the team deliverables.
• Contribute to the existing automation framework by adding tests based on appropriate test scenarios and design patterns.
• Confidently communicate test results with your team members and stakeholders using evidence and reports.
• Be an advocate for quality and actively promote this within your team and the wider development community in Creditsafe.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES

• Carry out functional, non-functional and acceptance testing in-line with the test strategy and processes.
• Working under the guidance of Senior QA Engineers, assist team members with quality assurance tasks, following our culture of good QA practice.
• Leverage opportunities using internally provided generative AI to improve process and quality.
• Develop and maintain test artefacts created using tools such as Cypress, Bruno and Azure Devops.
• Use generative AI to reduce repetitive manual activity, improve product quality and Agile processes.
• Work closely with their Agile team to promote a whole team approach to quality.
• Contribute to regression testing as part of the development cycle.
• Have knowledge of software testing techniques and the ability to select the correct technique dependent on the problem at hand.
• Accurately and concisely document tasks using Azure Dev Ops.
• Undertake peer reviews of test artefacts produced by the team.
• Communicate progress in an understandable manner to relevant stakeholders.
• Creation and maintenance of concise and accurate defect reports in line with the established defect process.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• An understanding of Agile development methodologies.
• Familiarity with ATDD, BDD, Unit testing, Integration testing and Acceptance testing
• A good understanding of the defect management lifecycle.
• Practical understanding of or willingness to learn AWS Cloud services.
• An understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and the corresponding testing activities required at each phase.
• An understanding of performance testing strategies and how to apply them.
• Teamwork – Encourages cooperation, collaboration, and communication both within their team and the wider test community.
• Problem Solving – Identifies problems within the team that would threaten the value of the product and seeks solutions by collaboration.

Creditsafe is an equal opportunities employer that values diversity. Please contact Creditsafe if there is any support you need with your application.

Details

• Seniority level: Associate
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Information Technology and Finance
• Industries: Information Services, Technology, Information and Media, and Financial Services

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Location: Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Posted: 1 month ago

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