PlotBox, one of Northern Ireland's most innovative companies, is currently recruiting for a QA Engineer. This is a fantastic opportunity to work with a company that has been recognised for their work. A home grown company, somewhere you will find "a home" and can develop your career with the right training and mentorship.

As a QA Engineer working closely with the Product and Development teams in an Agile delivery environment your responsibilities will include:

- Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback

- Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases

- Estimate, prioritise, plan and coordinate testing activities

- Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open source tools

- Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs

- Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved

- Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs

- Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements

- Monitor debugging process results

- Investigate the causes of non-conforming software and train users to implement solutions

- Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts

- Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies

Requirements

- Proven work experience in software quality assurance

- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes

- Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases

- Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing

- Hands-on experience with automated testing tools

- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process

- Educated to degree level or equivalent in an appropriate subject OR 1 years professional experience in a similar role

Desirable

- Proven work experience in software development

- Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting

- Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus