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System Test Engineer job description
Job Summary-System Test Engineer job description
Working with the Web Test Team, helping to successfully deliver high quality, fit for purpose products.
Main responsibilities-System Test Engineer job description
• Learning the architecture and interactions of all back-end components
• Devising new methods of testing the system effectively
• Ability to understand what data is most effective to test the system
• Writing and executing effective functional test, carrying out exploratory (unscripted) testing where appropriate
• Supporting test automation where appropriately; mainly Selenium/Ruby
• Supporting and actively working towards test driven development (TDD)
• Contribute to discussions on test process and procedural improvements
• Raising descriptive, analysed and useful defect reports
• Producing clear and concise test reports and release notes
• Gaining good understanding of various technologies. There will be a requirement to learn and develop skills in new technologies, within short periods of time.
• Working collaboratively with other testers and teams to ensure the spread of good practices and knowledge
• You will also be responsible for:
o Assisting with the setting up and configuration of test environments
o Liaising with the user representative to ensure that the tests match the users requirements
o Writing test plans
o Knowledge sharing between other testers
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities-System Test Engineer job description
Required Experience
Solid experience of working in a test driven environment
• First and foremost you should be a highly motivated System Tester
• Must have Software Engineering or Computer Science to degree level or higher; or show technical competence and enthusiasm for the role
• Must have an ISEB qualification; or show you have read extensively around the subject of testing methods
• Demonstrable knowledge of and experience of applying advanced testing techniques including formal Exploratory testing
• Working knowledge of:
o Web technologies; e.g. Flash
o Advanced features of popular Web Browsers; e.g. IE/Firefox/Safari/Chrome
o Hands-on test automation with browser driven automation tools, e.g. Selenium 2/Webdriver
o Programming knowledge, ideally JavaScript or Ruby
o Advanced Windows, OSX & Linux usage
o CI environments; e.g. Hudson
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills
• A strong team player who is willing to articulate opinions with an eye for detail and a genuine can-do attitude
• You will be motivated and committed to learn and develop your technical ability
• A good knowledge of the software development / test life cycle, combined with extensive experience of designing and executing test cases; scripted and unscripted
Technical Skills/Knowledge
Manual/Exploratory skills
• Ability to create clear, concise and readable manual test scripts (Competence)
• Ability to create re-usable test scripts that organise test artefacts in a manageable way (Competence)
• Ability to research and apply new methods to improve testing quality and speed (Competence)
• Able to ensure cross-browser compliance and awareness of specific cross browser issues (Competence)
• Knowledge of the user domain of the system that is worked on - Understanding of the problem domain and functionality of the system(s) e.g. Web/Mobile/TV/Backend systems (Competence)
• Ability to track down the area of defect using de-bugging tools such as Firebug, and to analyse stack traces (Competence)
• Knowledge of test automation concepts (Competence)
Automation skills
• Ability to produce quality, reusable and maintainable automated tests (Competence)
• Ability to pair with senior developers to implement Acceptance Tests (Competence)
• Working knowledge of SVN and clients to ensure version control of test/development artefacts (Competence)
• Understanding of Behaviour/Test Driven Development (Competence)
• Pro-actively learn the domain and architecture of the system (Competence)
• Understanding of data formats such as XML and JSON (Competence)
• Understanding of Databases, SQL queries, and data APIs (Competence)
• Willingness to keep up with improvements in development methodology (Basic)
• Working knowledge of a CI system to create builds, e.g. Hudson. (Competence)
System Test Engineer job description
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