create, enhance and maintain effective and automated test scenarios, ensuring adequate depth and breadth of test coverage
Carry out exploratory manual testing (e.g. smoke testing, regression testing for both functional and non-functional features of the application)
Understand the requirements from technical and business specifications
Actively support agile development methods and best practices
Use Jira to track defects and tasks
Take part in meetings, provide estimates, assist in presenting issues and solutions
Collaborate with other development team members in the planning and analysis phases of user stories during scrum sprints, and with the QA team in areas such as training and assistance
Support the business test team in UAT

Minimum of 3 years of Software Testing experience within SDLC, preferably in an agile development environment
Experience building and maintaining automated testing frameworks, such as Selenium WD, Cypress, Playwright or similar
Experience using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS Pipelines or similar for CI/CD
Hands-on experience of test planning, execution and maintenance of test scenarios using the principles of the BDD process
Knowledge of RDB and SQL for database interrogation
Experience with Rest API automation
Source control management ideally in Git
Passion for continuous integration and automated testing
Solid understanding of software testing concepts and methodologies
Experience in non-functional testing, e.g. cross browser responsiveness and cross platform testing, performance, etc.
Experience in defining functional and non-functional automated testing frameworks
Understanding of risk identification and analysis
Great communication skills
Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
Strong self-management skills and proactive attitude
Knowledge of Jira, Confluence
Experience in automation for mobile devices
Working knowledge of testing AWS technology
ISTQB qualification

Mid QA Engineer, Java

Key skills