Digital/Online Tester

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Digital / Online Tester - Glasgow - £35,000 / £40,000 + Benefits (Skillset dependant)

Harvey Nash is seeking an experienced Digital/Online Tester to join a large Glasgow city centre- based client on a permanent basis.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience of working with both manual and automated testing methods, and will be comfortable scripting automated functional tests.

The Role

Flexibility is expected in the team to make the best use of the Agile process.

Candidates must have strong skills in frontend or backend digital product & service delivery (or both) and be ready to quickly get to work within a multi-disciplinary team of developers, designers, editors, analysts focussed on one or more products or projects.

Day-to-day you will be responsible for working embedded within that team to ensure quality of design and software, to create and improve new and existing products, platforms and transactions across government.

Responsibilities of the role will also include:

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To participate and drive the testing of systems throughout the agile process

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Ensure a holistic view of quality is delivered from design, usability, code quality, performance, maintainability etc to provide appropriate quality of product or service vs the delivery stage

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Design testing approaches with other members of teams appropriate to the challenge at a high level of quality

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Improve the efficiency of testing through development of continuous testing and continuous integration solutions, and other useful approaches to end-to-end regression quality

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Ensure the non-functional requirements are understood and met

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Ensure the service will continue to operate end-to-end paying particular attention to integration, legacy and third parties

About You

The successful candidate will have a proven track record of testing software developments, preferably using java- developed web based systems.

You will be comfortable working with both automated and manual testing tools within an agile environment.

You will also hold the following skills and experience:

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Experience of digital solutions at the front-end or in transaction processing service environments

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An ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience, pro-active sharing attitudes

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Experience working on technical projects within an Agile & service aligned model and the necessary sharing communicative behaviours

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Ability to quickly research and learn new tools and techniques, learn by proof of concepts and iteration

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Experience testing server-side web applications and detailed knowledge of at least one programming language (we use a range of languages with a Java core) and/or detailed understanding and experience of front-end web development (HTML/CSS/JS) from a quality & test perspective

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Understanding of the use of Quality at every step of the Agile process

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Understanding of the use of Responsive Web Design

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Experience of high-traffic websites

On Offer

Due to continued growth and change within the business, these roles offer the opportunity to join this company at an exciting time which will offer the opportunity to work on a wide range of software projects that can help to shape and grow the business.

The role also offers a competitive salary, plus an excellent benefits package.

If you have the skills and experience required, please apply now using the link provided.