Junior QA/Software Tester

A great Travel organisation in Oxfordshire is recruiting for a QA/Software Tester. This role is a junior position which would suit an individual who is keen to progress in this field within an agile and collaborative environment, and will get involved and learn the following responsibilities:

• Responsibility for assuring software development deliverables meet business requirements.
• Work closely with the development teams to plan and agree appropriate acceptance test scenarios.
• Analyse functional and design specifications to identify test requirements.
• Create new test cases.
• Document and execute integration, regression and acceptance tests.
• Document any issues found during testing and work closely with development team to prioritise and resolve issues.
• Provide and validate estimates and plans for testing new project work.
• Develop working knowledge of the in-house system.
• Participate in feature development, from concept to design to construction.
• Work closely with IT Support and development teams to support releases during implementation and post implementation of UAT and Live.

Skills Required:

• Experience of testing web, desktop and service based applications.
• Advanced knowledge of SQL server.
• Able to write SQL queries.
• Experience with creating batch/script files for testing.
• Experience with automated testing script writing and execution.
• Management of release processes.

Desirable Skills:

• Understanding of software test methodologies.
• Experience of using source control (TFS, SVN or GIT).
• Knowledge and use of development IDE's (Visual Studio).
• Experience of creating/developing custom regression testing frameworks.

Personal Attributes:

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Methodical, logical and organised.
• Great communication skills.

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