Overview
Position Title:Manual QA Tester
Company:Hermes
Location:Cambridge, UK
Job Description:
Hermes has undergone a significant transformation moving from a parcel-centric business to a customer-focused business. There continues to be a significant investment into IT realising Hermes’ vision of being a digital business with data being a significant enabler for the Hermes Business Strategy.
Responsibilities:
- Liaise with Product Owners and Technical Business Analyst to understand requirements
- Analyse requirements to identify all relevant tests scenarios and edge cases.
- Work with developers to understand the flow of code
- Create and document comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases.
- Implement datasets to support, functional, integration and E2E testing activities
- Estimating, prioritising, planning and coordinating quality testing activities.
- Testing the modules and component parts of the application in isolation and integrated
- Identify potential issues and escalate to the team and prime testers
- Support automation testers on shifting left critical scenarios
- Recognise routine tasks as learning opportunities and seek ways to improve/automate
- Execute tests during the development lifecycle, at sprint and release level
Requirements:
- 2+ years of experience as a Quality Assurance Tester
- Knowledge of using software QA methodologies, tools and processes
- Understanding of system integration testing methodologies, defect tracking systems, and Quality Assurance process
- Hands-on JIRA experience of transitioning user stories to completion
- Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and cases
- Hands-on experience with black box testing
- Experience working in an Agile software development team
About Hermes
We’re the UK’s consumer delivery specialist, providing flexible and affordable delivery options to home, work, ParcelShops and Lockers, delivering more than 640 million parcels a year with a mission to be the UK’s carrier of choice.
