Software Tester

Software Tester

As a Software Tester you will be working from home during COVID-19, but as things get better then will be based at HQ near Woking (Surrey) with regular home working.

My client is a leading software house based in the Woking area who are recruiting for a Software Tester focussing on the testing of software developments generated by the development teams.

As a software tester you will work with the project co-ordinators to design, produce and run testing plans and automated testing routines for a variety of different software modules.

As a software tester you will be working with teams based both onshore and offshore to ensure successful product delivery.

As a Software Tester you will receive the following benefits:

• 35 hour working week
• Private healthcare scheme, subject to qualifying employment period and scheme eligibility
• Stakeholder pension opportunities, subject to scheme qualification criteria
• 25 days holiday per year

Software Tester Responsibilities:

Manual Testing Requirements

• Strong testing background with an awareness of modern testing techniques throughout the software lifecycle.
• Enjoy working with complex business requirements with an ability to learn and master domain specific concepts.
• Create and execute test plans using own testing expertise, product knowledge and domain expertise.
• Write well-defined and concise bugs, reworks, and test reports/outcomes.
• Have an inquisitive mind and enjoy deconstructing and learning existing modules through exploratory testing.
• A passion for software testing and the merits it brings to a team and product.
• Enjoy and get satisfaction from finding bugs/problems and influencing how they get fixed.
• Execute functional, non-functional, exploratory, smoke and regression tests.
• Recommend improvements to existing software applications through previous experience and own ideas.
• Excellent communication skills, able to liaise confidently with other teams and stakeholders.
• Be pro-active in identifying product, project and testing risks.

Automated Testing Requirements

• Contribute to the expansion, enhancement and development of our existing automation framework.
• Technically minded with the ability to learn new concepts and implement those independently.

Hands on experience or familiarity with the following:

• Java
• Selenium web driver
• Eclipse or similar

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