Quality Assurance Engineer

OUR CLIENT IS A LEADING FUND AND ASSET MANAGEMENT COMPANY IN GALWAY SEEKING A QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER ON A CONTRACT BASIS.

This position will involve test management, planning and execution as part of a team which develops enterprise web applications to support the provision of the IT Asset Management service.

JOB/OPPORTUNITY

- Creation of test plans and corresponding test cases to ensure thorough testing of business requirements in a fast-paced Agile environment.
- Test case execution, defect documentation and tracking, and regression through all system tiers. Triage management.
- Proactively communicating with developers and business analysts to resolve issues or questions pertaining to test creation or execution.
- Identify and effectively document a suite of test cases suitable for an automated regression test suite.
- Accurate and timely status reporting.

SKILLS/EXPERTISE

- Bachelor level degree in Computer Science, Engineering or other IT field
- 3+ years' experience with the full spectrum of functional Quality Assurance testing and systems development life cycles
- 3+ years' experience in the implementation and deployment of enterprise-class applications
- Extensive experience and participation in all types and stages of testing, including performance tests, usability tests, acceptance tests etc.
- Experience with test management tools, including HP's Quality Center
- Experience with tools and practices for automated testing (such as selenium)
- Hands-on experience with testing-relevant tools and techniques, including web service testing and SQL.
- Extensive experience in agile projects and of agile testing methods
- Strong analysis skills, strong written and verbal communication skills
- Must be highly organised and a good coordinator of group activities
- Experience with IBM Rational Team Concert is desirable but not required, as the candidate will learn this as part of the job.

WE ARE ACTING AS AN EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS.