SDET QE Manager

Job Description

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test – Quality Engineering

Location : South Dublin

6 Months Contract extendable

1. This position will be responsible for driving best practices for functional, exploratory and automated testing
2. Work with teams to deliver applications and solutions that meet the needs of our stakeholders, including consumers, merchants, issuers and governments. 
3. Are you an experienced software professional who is passionate about innovative technology and its potential to help create a world beyond cash? 
4. Can you plan test strategy and acceptance criteria keeping end customer needs – functional, non-functional, and user experience - in mind? 
5. Love being hands on and can write code to break software as part of ensuring highest software quality and stability? 
6. Do you have a motivation to drive quality automation and self-service culture as a part of software delivery practices? 
7. Can you scale your communication at all levels starting from engineers to program managers to product managers? 

Roles and Responsibility 

• Coordinate and participate in requirements review/story elaborations and testing activities to deliver high quality products and incremental value with every iteration. 
• Review project test and implementation schedules. Document test plans and acceptance criteria using Rally or such solution life cycle management tools. 
• Develop test scripts, automate user journeys and maintain test frameworks. 
• Perform automated and manual exploratory testing to ensure software meets business and security requirements and established practices. 
• Own responsibility for end-to-end product quality including: defect management and 
  oversight, status reporting and metrics creation, and escalation for issues discovered during the testing phase 
• Develop business and product knowledge over time and share such knowledge to mentor newer team members. This is not a management position; however, this position is expected to provide strong leadership to junior members of the team. 
• Adhere to and enforce consistent company and department testing standards and procedures. 

All About You 

 

• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with great attention to detail, critical thinking, solid communication and proven leadership skills - with the ability to lead multiple test paths simultaneously 
• Experience in creating and running automation scripts using technologies: Java, JUnit, Selenium, JBehave, Soap UI/Pro, REST, JSON and XML, Eclipse IDE 
• Demonstrated experience developing high quality Test Strategies and Test Plans 
• Experience of Agile methodologies and working within scrum team 
• Exposure of tools such as RALLY, Rational Team Concert, Quality Center, etc. 
• Experience testing across a variety of platforms: web interface, APIs (REST and SOAP), microservices