Test Engineer

Test Engineer required for an initial 6 month contract in Amsterdam

Candidates must have: multiple years practical experience with BDD (behaviour driven development) and robot framework (gherkin language + writing modules in eg python).

*5 years relevant work experience in software testing.
*Expert knowledge of functional and non-functional test techniques like those described above
*Expert knowledge of automated testing tools like those described above
*Expert knowledge of Agile development
*Excellent verbal and written communication skills
*Technical background and an solid understanding of the Digital Television industry
*Good development/Scripting skills in common languages like VB, JAVA, PERL, C++, etc
*Database skills, mainly in SQL Server
*Good experience with different Operating Systems, with emphasis on Unix variants
*Good understanding of Object Oriented programming, J2EE architecture, .NET, etc
*Must demonstrate an understanding of IP Networking, protocols such as HTTP and HTTPS, Firewalls, Routers, etc.
*Proven ability to manage and prioritize multiple, diverse projects simultaneously
*Must be flexible, independent and self-motivated
*Punctual, Regular and consistent attendance

Responsibilities:

*As a scrum team member actively participate in the grooming of requirements, impacting effort, defining acceptance criteria and developing test scripts.
*Work together with the product owner to make sure requirements are not open for interpretation (review and rewrite requirements where necessary)
*Breaking down business requirements to technical requirements and define testable acceptance criteria (requires full understanding of technical solution)
*Interact with product management, project management and development teams to develop a strong understanding of the project and testing objectives
*Needs to proactively approach product owners to both groom requirements and come to full and complete understanding of the product
*Needs to proactively approach project managers to agree on release dates and be able to argue why dates/product is at risk
*Design and create test conditions and scripts to address business and technical use cases
*Responsible to risk assess each delivery
*Based on product risk decide on formal test techniques to be used
*Fully responsible for writing test cases and test scripts
*Organising review sessions with peer Test engineer and Development lead
*Use existing tools and techniques to execute test cases and build/script new tools for performing testing/validation function

oFully master Equivalence Partitioning (EP)
oFully master Boundary Value Analysis (BVA)
oFully master Decision table testing (C/E)
oFully master Process Cycle Testing (PCT)
oFully master State Transition Testing (STT)
oFully master Syntax Testing

*Develop and lead the automation strategy/effort and generate scripts to perform automated testing cycles
*Expected to be a tool expert for at least one of the industry standards like SELENIUM, SOAPUI, JMETER, CUCUMBER, SPECFLOW, ..
*Full understanding of setting up test frameworks
*Execute and deep dive analysis of automation test results.
*Be able to deduct meaning on automated test result. Not a simple fire and report activity
*Be able to produce reports for senior management with clear breakdown in KPI
*Lead troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different teams to drive towards root cause identification and resolution
*Need to take ownership for reproducing production defects in Test Lab
*Be able to find root cause and handover detailed report to development team
*Setup and lead CCB meetings to discuss and prioritise defects
*Document, track and escalate issues as appropriate, using JIRA and CONFLUENCE or similar tools/means
*Writing detailed and complete defect reports
*Communicate risks and make sure ticket is correctly prioritised
*Include root cause investigation results to argue case
*Support deployment of applications and perform "validation testing" during the off-hours maintenance windows
*Together with product owner define acceptance criteria (based on the business requirements)
*Execute tests and feedback results to stakeholders