Tester

Tester required to work with a Government Department based in Plymouth. This is an initial 6 month contract, inside of IR35, paying up to £400 per day.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering, production of executable specifications and exploratory testing
• Planning and managing application functional and non functional testing
• Obtain maximum value from existing investment in technologies, maintaining the core information-handling infrastructure of the organisation and keeping it up to date while planning for future needs
• Being part of the IT systems development, transition into service and support processes
• Preparing for, undertaking and documenting testing work
• Contributing to project management processes.
  

Essential Experience:

• Experience of writing and maintaining automated tests - e.g. testing in in Ruby kicked off by Cucumber
• Strong knowledge of Java/HTML/XML/CSS
• Public Sector experience
• Demonstrable experience in working within Agile teams
• Working knowledge of Quality Center/Application Lifecycle Management
• Working knowledge of Jenkins for CI
• Experience in automating testing to include either data, behaviour or test-driven approaches
• Experience of manual testing and ideally User Interface and Accessibility testing
• Experience in using Ruby, or a similar language or has a solid development background
• Knowledge of performance testing
• Knowledge of User Interface and Accessibility testing is desirable

Qualifications Required:

• ISTQB/ISEB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing

SC Clearance is required for this role.

Please apply should you meet the above criteria.

Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.