Job Title: | Senior Tester |
Contract Type: | Contract |
Location: | Dublin |
Industry: | |
Salary: | Negotiable |
Start Date: | ASAP |
Duration: | 6 months |
REF: | WM/TEST_1634054071 |
Contact Name: | Warren Moore |
Contact Email: | warren.moore@projectpeople.com |
Job Published: | over 2 years ago |
Job Description
Senior Tester
6 month initial contract
Dublin plus remote working
Role - Senior Test Engineer
The Role
The role of Senior Test Engineer involves requirements analysis, test estimation, test design and execution for Java-based applications and services. Testing will include both manual & automation.
The Senior Test Engineer must be able to take ownership of a project from initiation to completion.
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop test cases based on analysis of business and technical requirements.
- Provide accurate estimates of test effort required.
- Coordinate deliverables into test from various stakeholders.
- Act as escalation point for other testers for issues encountered.
- Work with developers and other testers to ensure timely defect resolution.
- Ensure efficient construction and maintenance of automated tests.
- Deploy builds to test environments.
- Provide test support to customers where required.
- Availability to work outside business hours on occasion for deployment to production.
- Design, implement & maintain processes & process documentation.
- Investigate, evaluate & introduce tools, technologies & techniques.
EXPERIENCE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE INDICATORS FOR THIS ROLE
Essential:
- At least five years testing experience.
- At least two years Senior Tester or Test Lead experience.
- Good working knowledge Linux and/or Unix.
- Good working knowledge of SQL query building.
- Excellent Written & Oral Communication.
- Functional, Load, Soak and Stress Test experience.
Desirable:
- Experience in Telecoms or a real-time software development environment advantageous.
- Experience of web service testing with tools such as SoapUI.
- Experience of Test Automation/CI tools such as ReadyAPI, Selenium, Jenkins
- Experience of cloud-based environments, particularly AWS
- Experience testing batch jobs with large volumes of data.
- Scripting or Programming Languages such as Java and Groovy.
- Agile / CI experience
- Test Repository tools such as Quality Centre, JIRA.
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