Overview

Position Title:QA Engineer

Company:Experian

Location:Plymouth, UK

Job Description:

Experian is the world’s leading global information services company. At life’s big moments – from buying a home or car, to sending a child to college, to growing a business by connecting it with new customers – we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence.

Responsibilities:

  • To perform automation/manual quality assurance and testing on various applications that are central to the DCI business.
  • Engage in adopting test strategy to ensure high-quality output and involve in evolving QA processes.
  • Design test scripts, test data, and execute test cases for complex technical and business solutions.
  • Bring a QA perspective to planning sessions, review and provide feedback and test effort on user stories.
  • Analyse QA related issues in a timely fashion (defects/tickets) and ensure that bugs are handle with severity & priority.
  • Build and maintain regression test packs for each release.
  • To become involved in Test automation as that becomes core to the QA model.
  • Create & maintain automated test suites & framework.
  • Execute test plans to agreed timescales and provide regular updates to the QA test lead/manager.
  • Proactively identify potential risks in achieving personal and project timescales and report appropriately.

Requirements:

  • ISTQB/ISEB Foundation certifications or equivalent certifications as a minimum
  • Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, manual and automated test techniques, tools, processes and best practice
  • You will ideally have practical experience in UIs and APIs automated test creation. (minimum three years)
  • Possess a strong background in writing automated functional and integration tests in the Protractor or similar test framework (Javascript/Typescript)
  • Understand where & when automation testing fits into the SDLC, specifically Agile (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)
  • Familiar with good development practices to create and maintain clean, readable code to industry standards.
  • Experience defining and executing non-functional tests cases using standard testing techniques.
  • Be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, attention to detail, can-do attitude, self-starter & proactive approach to problem-solving.
  • Extensive experience in Test Management and Automation Tools – such as JIRA, Zephyr, Selenium, SpecFlow, Postman, REST APIs
  • Team leading and stakeholder management skills will be a plus

About Experian

Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses and society