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Test Analyst – – –
LOCATION Manchester
CONTRACT TYPE internship job (6-12 Months)
JOB DESCRIPTION This is currently the WFH role, Manchester.
. How can you expect to spend your day? Reporting to the Lead Test Analyst, within the development team, the successful applicant will find themselves thrust into an extremely busy and growing department responsible for developing both bespoke internal platforms and client facing web operations.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Liaise with all levels of developers and business analysts to design and implement test scripts.

• Perform User acceptance testing for each incremental release

• Read and interpret detailed business requirements and design documentation and construct testing scenarios that ensure that adequate testing coverage of the application is achieved to ensure quality benchmarks are achieved

• Undertake regression test execution for each incremental release of development.

• Review and report testing outcomes

• Develop and maintain testing documentation

• Provide accurate test plans and testing estimates to enable the project plan to be designed

• Ensure that the test phase is completed to pre-defined quality measures

• Clearly communicate and categorise defects to the development team

• Performing System Performance Testing for each incremental release

 

What are the ideal candidate? personality and qualifications:

• Experience of testing web-based systems, including the user interface/web screen, and Web Service interface specifications

• Experience of testing Windows-based applications

• Experience of using testing tracking/execution tools

• Manual testing experience

• Designing test scripts

 

Experience and qualifications desirable:

• ISTQB certified to a foundation level (or equivalent)

• Exposure to testing in a .NET environment

• Exposure to testing in an agile environment

• Automated Testing experience

 

What are the perks of working at this company?

• Training / Career Progression Potential – As the role matures the company are fully committed to supporting your on going Professional Development.

Send latest cv to Hr@ilinksolutions.co.uk

Automation QA Tester Responsibilities & Skills:

The successful applicant will be an Automation QA Tester required to help with the delivery of the automation testing, creating test plans to ensure full coverage as well as drive and lead the implementation of best practice throughout the whole lifecycle with shift left approaches as default.
The automation QA tester will own and manage all test activities surrounding automation testing, driving CI/CD and advocating a shift-left mentality through TDD/BDD, conducting regular functional and regression testing, and working with management to ensure smooth release.

This role requires regular communication with senior stakeholders so confident and concise communication is necessary to succeed in this role.

• Provides specialist testing advice and delivery, is accountable for managing automation testing activities on projects within a program or service.
• Working as part of a DevOps/Agile squad
• Understands the requirements for testing within projects and agrees testing scope with stakeholders
• Accountable for the delivery of testing activities within budget and timescale
• Work with product owners to define acceptance criteria and the Definition of Done.
• Creates test plan documents that address the requirements and mitigate the risks of the solution
• Contributes to internal testing standards
• Accurately evaluate and report test results, test progress, and product quality
• Knowledge of automation test tools including open source
• Agile testing in Scrum
• TDD implementation and optimisation & BDD acceptance criteria understanding and execution
  Capable of assisting developers with unit testing & agile test members with component integration testing
• Development and implementation of end-to-end automated testing solution
• Advocate for freeware, shift left and CI/CD
• ISQTB certification or equivalent
• Coding experience – able to contribute to coding sprints
• Automation experience e.g. Selenium, Java, AngularJS, JS and C#
• Knowledge of Git, GitHub, TFS, Jenkins
• Clouds services, e.g. AWS, Azure
• API Services – RESTful, POSTman
• Hands on work experience in e.g. JUnit, NUnit and TestNG
• Experience in CI/CD e.g. Cucumber, Slack, Serenity, SpecFlow
• Executing the Test Cycles, Monitoring and analysis of Results
• Creation of Test Report and conveying key aspects to Customer in both Technical and non-Technical terminology

Send latest cv to Hr@ilinksolutions.co.uk

Job Title: Software Developer

Job Location: Manchester

The Software Developer is responsible for providing a software design and Development role within the IT software development function, creating technical solutions to a high standard improving the reliability of the technical solution

• Essential Skills and Experience
• Good development experience
• Develop software solutions to agreed timescales, standards and KPIs.
• Inform the PMO function immediately about any and all events that may affect delivery to these criteria.
• Build on extant abilities in web service development using the appropriate
• Languages and technologies, including VB.NET and ASP.NET, demonstrating a desire to work at an expert level
• Ensure that the appropriate quality of development and documentation is achieved through the understanding and adoption of best practices inappropriate software development techniques, including coding standards.
• Provide timely and accurate estimates for delivery of projects, BAU requests and bugs.
• Work within a mixed environment; understanding of Agile and Waterfall methodologies where appropriate.
• Strive continually to improve the efficiency of company processes, through the most appropriate use of technology.
• Make recommendations for the improvement and growth of the IT Software.
• Liaise with appropriate technical contacts to create new solutions and improve existing ones.
• In addition to the above, undertake any additional duties as may reasonably be required.

KEY SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES

The successful candidate must have, and be able to demonstrate:

• Strong commercial experience of Microsoft .NET technologies, preferably VB.NET and ASP.NET Experience of SQL
• Experience of technologies such as o Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Web Service Enhancement (WCE)
• It is also useful to have excellent experience of technologies such as Bootstrap, JavaScript
  Experience of working with a Source Control and Management system such as Team Foundation Server
• Experience of web services and other API technologies
• The ability to work unsupervised to agreed time scales and deliverables.
• The ability to work and communicate effectively within a team of peers and others.
• Capturing and formally documenting requirements.
• Demonstrably undertake full Developer Testing and participate in Code Review as part of the Software Development Lifecycle and PCI Requirements Paying particular attention to the security requirements of working within a PCI-DSS accredited environment, particularly the writing of secure code Communicating effectively throughout the development process to customers, suppliers and the PMO, as appropriate.
• Discover new insights about the business in the larger market and society based on an understanding of business trends.

Send latest cv to Hr@ilinksolutions.co.uk

Remote/home-based work experience for a year 3 or 4 University Student or Masters student looking to gain some experience in a Software Testing

It’s an exciting opportunity for someone who loves to learn, is excited about fast-changing environments and has an interest in software testing. This is an opportunity to make a positive social change across the world.

Company

I-Link is a small startup at a very exciting period of rapid expansion.

The team all work remotely from the UK, and India

Writing & Executing test scripts and reviewing results

Reporting and documenting technical issues

Responsibilities
• Execute test cases (manual) and analyze the results of new product features.
• Create logs to document testing phases and defects
• Report bugs and errors to development teams on Jira or Trello
• Help troubleshoot issues
• Conduct post-release/ post-implementation testing
• Writing & Executing test scripts and reviewing results
• Reporting and documenting technical issues
• Requirements:

Currently studying a BSc/BE/ MSc in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or relevant Tech degree

Some experience in software testing ideally.

What we offer:
• Work From Anywhere together using our platform
• Be part of a dynamic agile development team
• Work closely with a mentor and with the founders
• Make a real impact on the look and feel of the I-link platform

Location: Work From Anywhere

Send latest cv to Hr@ilinksolutions.co.uk