QA Engineer (Contractor)

Outside IR35

Day rate: £250 - £350 per day

• Create and develop test cases

• Perform manual or exploratory testing as required, to identify defects and ensure comprehensive test coverage.

• Document defects, collaborate with development teams for resolutions, and advocate for continuous product improvement.

• Validate and scrutinise requirements to identify potential gaps, edge cases and level of testability of proposed solutions

• Ability to work with or previous experience of Content Management System (CMS)

• Create supporting test documentation for a project with support from others - e.g. Test Plans, Test Summary Reports etc.

• Contribute to the planning and prioritisation of testing on a project

• Can estimate testing tasks within a project

• Proficiency in assessing and highlighting risk in order mitigate issues

• Ownership of QA processes and best practice

Requirements

Expert knowledge in

• Ability to quickly understand a digital product, its features and functionality

• Developing and executing test scenarios for web or mobile applications

• Understanding and analysing requirements

• Defect diagnosis, reporting and tracking

• Maintaining knowledge of core systems and processes

• Industry standard testing process and best practices, with ISTQB foundation certification

Competent with

• Software testing techniques, testing tools, incident/defect tracking systems and other test-support tools

• Development methodologies such as Agile / Waterfall

• API understanding, and experience with tools such as Charles Proxy and Postman

• UI automated testing tools (e.g. Cypress, Maestro)

• JIRA / Confluence