Tester (QAT)

Monarch IT have a fantastic opportunity to work with a large government organisation until March 2022.  The role you will be preforming will be as a Tester (QAT) where it will be working remotely , however you are expected  to travel to Leeds or London twice a month. As a test specialist you will be working closely with DevOps team and will provide effective assurance to product delivery.


Key responsibilities are as follows:

• Maintain high professional standards when dealing with developers and users of testing products.

• Liaise with product owner to discuss business impact of issues found during test activities.

• Keeps managers aware of the status of projects being managed e.g. timeframes, document requirements, and key operational issues through formal and informal communications.

• Prepares, maintains and monitors realistic assurance / test plans, replanning where necessary due to unforeseen circumstances and changes to delivery dates, to ensure milestones are successfully me• Plan and contribute to the automation of existing tests, finding innovative ways to address problems found

• Promote and demonstrate an agile and flexible approach to development, delivery, test and assurance.

• Keep abreast of new developments in software testing methods and industry good practice.

 

Requirements to be successful for interview:

• Knowledge of test automation, BDD and programming principles is desirable, preferably with a Python background.

• This role is to work within a multi-disciplinary agile devops team; the tester is expected to assist with QA activities across the product lifecycle.

• Knowledge of  informatics systems and the technology used, such as:

- messaging and data exchange essentials such as HL7, HTTP, SOAP, XML, FHIR and JSON

- data management on a large scale, using secure Cloud services and integrated infrastructure

- operating systems such as UNIX / Ubuntu LINUX / Windows

- database technologies such as Postgres, Riak and Oracle

- network architecture such as LAN/WAN/SAN

- querying technologies such as SQL and Erlang

• An understanding of exploratory and/or automated testing and their advantages to functional and integration and/or non-functional and/or data process testing.

• Proven ability to use structured test data and test environment provision to improve and enable functional and integration, non-functional and/or data process testing.

If you are looking for a new contract opportunity , have the knowledge and understanding of the necessary requirements needed to be successful , please do not hesitate to apply immediately.