Specialist Software engineer -Application Tester

Responsibilities Technical Capabilities:

Required:

• Quality: Demonstrates understanding of quality standards and processes. Shows consideration for maintainability and testability.
• Problem Solving: Applies logical thinking / hypothesis when investigating issues and carefully applies basic fault-finding techniques.
• Security: Awareness of company security principles and understands the importance of applying security controls.
• Incremental Value Delivery: Demonstrates judgement around the relative priority of tasks.
• Testing: Demonstrates a knowledge of different types of testing techniques.
• Test Design & Architecture: Highlights potential duplication and has a high-level awareness of test architecture, frameworks and tooling.

Desired:

• Quality: Creates tested production-ready output without assistance (subject to peer review) and considers non-functional elements e.g. performance, usability, security.
• Problem Solving: Competently diagnoses issues across multiple systems using advanced fault-finding concepts and feeds information back into team to foster improvement.
• Security: Ensures security is considered in requirements and helps evolve security practices.
• Incremental Value Delivery: Breaks down work to deliver value early by extracting deliverable components from complex requirements while maximizing work not done.
• Testing: Uses risk-based testing techniques when planning testing approach considering activities across teams. Feeds insights back into team to foster improvement.
• Test Design & Architecture: Competent to design tests at all levels of the testing pyramid and considers simplicity, extensibility and cost of maintenance.

Advanced:

• Quality: Creates mechanisms which measure and ensure quality standards are followed and seeks to evolve standards to fill gaps and challenge low-value elements.
• Problem Solving: Able to step in to unfamiliar projects to assist with complex issues. Defines and ensures observability standards and tooling to evolve system reliability.
• Testing: Actively analyses data to improve test approach and planning. Innovates in testing areas, pragmatically prioritising high-value tests and ensures constant evolution of test suites.
• Test Design & Architecture: Architects for scale and performance and effectively challenges over/under engineering to balance design and delivery.

Desired Previous Experience:

• Use of the following technologies; .NET 6+/C#, SQL (Ideally Oracle PL/SQL), Responsive UI, Playwright/Selenium, Postman/Bruno
• Use of source control, Git preferred
• Non-functional testing e.g. load testing, security, UX/AX
• Continuous integration, continuous delivery and test automation approaches
• Delivering software as part of a team through all phases of the development cycle

Desirable Education and Technical Ability:

• Multiple years of relevant professional experience or relevant qualification to degree level

IT Applications:

• Good IT literacy for all MS office products

Required Profile required Technical Capabilities:

Required:

• Quality: Demonstrates understanding of quality standards and processes. Shows consideration for maintainability and testability.
• Problem Solving: Applies logical thinking / hypothesis when investigating issues and carefully applies basic fault-finding techniques.
• Security: Awareness of company security principles and understands the importance of applying security controls.
• Incremental Value Delivery: Demonstrates judgement around the relative priority of tasks.
• Testing: Demonstrates a knowledge of different types of testing techniques.
• Test Design & Architecture: Highlights potential duplication and has a high-level awareness of test architecture, frameworks and tooling.

Desired:

• Quality: Creates tested production-ready output without assistance (subject to peer review) and considers non-functional elements e.g. performance, usability, security.
• Problem Solving: Competently diagnoses issues across multiple systems using advanced fault-finding concepts and feeds information back into team to foster improvement.
• Security: Ensures security is considered in requirements and helps evolve security practices.
• Incremental Value Delivery: Breaks down work to deliver value early by extracting deliverable components from complex requirements while maximizing work not done.
• Testing: Uses risk-based testing techniques when planning…