Career Opportunity Software Tester

Location Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Job Description :
We are looking for a number of highly motivated, positive, proactive, test professionals at various levels of seniority to work as software testers in an Agile Scrum environment.

This role is a component of the company’s Software Quality Assurance group, responsible for the testing of internally and externally developed software applications.

Key Accountabilities:-

• Being a positive and proactive member of an Agile Scrum team
• Creation and execution of automated tests in Quick Test Professional 10 using VBScript
• Creation and execution of manual tests in Quality Center
• Raising and tracking of defects using Quality Center
• Exploratory testing
• Creation of test plans
• Creation of reports and supporting documentation

Qualifications :
Skills & Experience Essential

• Software testing experience in a structured testing department
• Experience of automation testing or previous development experience
• Proven ability to analyse requirements and derive test scenarios
• Solid experience of test case creation
• Great attention to detail

Skills & Experience Preferred

• Strong QTP and VBScript skills are very desirable
• Tortoise SVN or similar source control tools
• Use of Rally
• Testing in an Agile environment
• Exploratory testing
• Knowledge and experience of using SQL against Oracle databases
• ISEB foundation qualification
• Previous experience within the pharmaceutical industry would be an advantage
• Performance testing with LoadRunner, Facilita Forecast or similar tools would be a bonus

Education
• Degree level educated, preferably in a computing discipline or equivalent work experience

Language Skills
• Excellent spoken and written English language