Quality Assurance Engineer

Salary Competitive

This position provides exciting opportunity for a focused software Quality Assurance Engineer to work in a dynamic and growing software environment. At Locate a Locum we’re on a mission to simplify recruitment through the use of efficient technology. Due to ongoing growth within the development team and also a growing customer base we are looking to introduce a Quality Assurance Engineer to join our highly ambitious team in Belfast to improve the quality of the software delivered.


Job Requirements

You will be part of the Engineering team, and will work closely with the Software Development team to carry out the following duties:

  • Gain a high level of knowledge of the application and client use-cases to ensure the end-users experience is maintained and improved upon.

  • Provide feedback in the form of discussions, defects, feature requests to improve the quality of the product for the team and our clients.

  • Develop and maintain a successful quality assurance process.

  • Plan, document and report effective manual software test cycles

  • Assist the product delivery teams to improve the quality of the products

  • Have a desire to learn and develop test automation test processes with the assistance of the software team

  • Assist with the software support process alongside the rest of the team.

  • Effectively communicate the status of work progress to completion

  • Identify and raise defects in a timely manner

Assist with the research and setup of suitable testing environments

Job Duties

A successful candidate will be able to demonstrate they have the following skills to be considered for this role:

Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field suited to Software Testing.

Have at least one years’ experience in a software testing or quality assurance role.

  • Be able to communicate effectively with all steak-holders to ensure that requirements and issues are understood.

  • Have the desire and drive to continually improve quality of the products.

  • Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test cases.

  • Experience of co-ordinating testing activities.

  • Experience of analysing user story acceptance criteria to build tests.

  • Have a strong knowledge of software testing methodologies, tools and processes.

  • Experience in (or an actively learning) software automation tools and processes would be a plus.

  • Relevant testing qualifications such as ISTQB would be desired

  • Be looking for, and recognise automation opportunities

For more information or questions please contact us at info@lcoatealocum.com

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

Skill development
Skill development

We want to take you from good to great.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

Central office
Central office

Your local office is your anchor point, thus, we placed it centrally at your convenience.

Work life balance
Work life balance

Carve out time for your kids, friends and personal cider projects.

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Working at
Locate a Locum

Locate a Locum is an online platform and mobile app that directly connects your pharmacy to locum pharmacists in the area. As of January 2018, there are over 8000 pharmacies and 4000 locums using the platform. When a locum applies for a shift, you can review their application and accept them for the shift. Locate a Locum fully automates the matching of pharmacists to pharmacies and because of this we do it faster, more efficiently and reliably than any other locum provider on the market. We work with over 8,000 pharmacies across the UK and Ireland, listing 1,200+ pharmacist jobs per week. Locate a Locum are disrupting the locum industry with plans for major expansion.   Catalyst alumni startup!

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