Software Consultant -Testing

Department: Development

Location: Pune, India

Description

ParentPay Group is Europe's leading software product company and the UK's largest education technology business. We are on a mission to bring next-generation innovation to positively impact on the lives of millions of parents, teachers, and students every day in over 49 countries.

Our market leading products use cutting edge cloud-based technology to streamline school processes, including secure web and mobile apps that enable secure online payments for school items such as meals, trips, clubs and uniform, improve parental engagement, simplify meal management and - through our product SIMS - collect and manage a database of student information and core school operations.

ParentPay Group's new offices in Pune are a fantastic tech hub for those looking to boost their careers in software product development.

Our bright team FastTrack their career with international exposure and ways of working based on agile development best practices from globally renowned technology consultancies.

Key Responsibilities

• User stories and acceptance criteria are an acceptable standard
• Assist Developers in Implementing unit testing and static analysis
• Onboarding new testers
• Exploratory testing performed in a meaningful, value-driven approach
• Coaching and advising the team on techniques, tools etc.
• Implementation of new testing tools
• Leading Automation initiative and creation of framework whilst ensuring the correct standards for scripts
• Test reporting in line with Group QA requirements e.g. product risk
• Testing within the sprints
  
  

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Required Skills:

• Experience in developing automated testcases in at least one programming language.
• Proven 3+ years of work experience in software quality assurance, especially web applications
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools (Selenium, Testcafe, Supertest, Gatling, Browserstack, etc)
• Hands-on experience in API testing and API test automation.
• Strong knowledge in common web application technologies
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Knowledge of Non-functional testing Performance testing, Usability testing etc
• Ability to create and execute End to end test scenarios.
• Strong communication skills to report and document test results.
• Cross functional requirements testing
• Collaboration and coordination skills to work with stakeholders and development teams.

Key Skills:

• Web application testing
• Test automation
• Usability Testing
• Database testing
• Manual exploratory testing
• Quality strategy

Good to Have:

• BDD framework
• javascript
• Performance Testing