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Qa Test Automation Engineer


We are looking for a quality assurance engineer, who can proactively and effectively work in a highly agile product development environment, along with fellow teammates as well as the product owner and customers, so as to maintain the quality of the delivered product at a satisfactory level.


The ideal candidate will be responsible for conducting tests before each product launch to ensure our product quality meets customer needs, providing timely feedback to developers.


The ideal candidate should be a creative thinker, self starter, motivated to tackle complicated problems, and eager and willing to learn and work on new technologies and, possibly, programming languages.


Why work for Headforwards?

We are a software development company with just over 100 people from 18 different countries and we like to have fun at work. We are agile with a very laid back feel, a relatively flat structure and small self-organising teams of 2-7 people. There's no pressure to work extra hours to churn out more and more code. At Headforwards, our culture and environment is dedicated to making people happy at work. We have lots of social activities and monthly learning sessions, talks and cross company communities of practice for various languages, tools and frameworks.

This is a place where you can make a difference, work in a small team start-up feel but benefit from the support of a larger community of developers and like-minded people. We work in teams dedicated to various clients and we work on global projects with cutting edge technologies, tools and techniques. We live in beautiful Cornwall, our offices are 5 miles from the beach but we also have a large collection of remote workers too!

Requirements

  • Help the product owner and customers define/refine the product increments to be developed and delivered, by reviewing the requirements and giving timely feedback
  • Help the team deliver testable and tested product increments, by reviewing their design and giving timely feedback
  • Contribute to the creation and maintenance of detailed, comprehensive and well-organized test plans and cases
  • Help to estimate, prioritize and coordinate testing activities
  • Involvement in the design, development/maintenance and execution of automation testing scripts
  • Identify and track bugs, giving timely feedback to developers
  • Perform full regression testing when bugs are resolved
  • Other duties as needed or required.

Qualifications and Skills

  • Ideally, a degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience
  • Some work experience in software quality assurance, knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and process
  • Familiarity with making test plans and test cases
  • Basic programming in Python, or a strong desire to learn
  • Written and verbal fluency in English

Preferred/Optional

  • Familiarity with Debian/Ubuntu Linux systems and networking operations
  • Familiarity with automation test scripting
  • Familiarity with performance and/or security testing
  • Experience with open source automation frameworks, e.g. Robot, Selenium
  • Familiarity with CI/CD infrastructure, e.g. Jenkins
  • Familiarity with network backbone technology, especially SDN/NFV technologies
  • Experience with container technology, e.g. Docker
  • Experience with project management SaaS tools such as GitHub/Bitbucket and Jira

Behavioural Competencies

  • Great work ethic: Self-sufficiency, discipline and transparency while working in remote environment
  • Be a team player

The closing date for this role is 9th July 2021. We recruit on a rolling basis and fill our vacancies as soon as we find people who fit our culture and meet the skills requirements. This means that whilst we have a closing date on all of our roles, we may offer the role to someone before the end date, so we recommend that you apply as soon as possible. We reply to all candidates who apply to us, we will always update you on your application!

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