Software Test Engineer

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Based on discussions with your SCRUM Team design applications according to end user needs.
• Track projects, tasks and bugs using the company specified work tracking system.
• Understand requirements from a business perspective and contribute to designing clear, easy-to-use applications from a user perspective.
• Involved in the creation of completely new applications or, build upon the functionality of existing ones.
• Work closely with others on the teams/team members to come up with the best possible solutions for the applications.
• Involved in the development of technology solutions to improve functionality, user-friendliness and presentation of our products.
• Involved in independent research contributing to technical discussions where required.
• Ensure compliance of final product with end-user specifications through regular reviews with designated end-user groups where applicable.
• This could include testing functionality of your own and colleagues’ code for performance and effecting changes to code as required.
• Regular code reviews with colleagues to identify bugs and performance problems ensuring code and product quality
• Monitor, analyze and act on post-deployment bugs.
• Review of user feedback and proposing/implementing action plans for development based on discussion with your team.
• Provide any required support to end-users of the applications.
• Contribute to the training of team members on agile development practices, use of appropriate design patterns and SOLID/design principles in their day-to-day work
• Contribute to the technical ownership of projects/tasks ensuring their successful completion to project deadlines
• Ensure the writing of concise documentation for applications and websites
• Show initiative to use new technologies and methodologies that will benefit projects and responding to the introduction of software advances and upgrades.
• Take ownership and volunteer to collaborate with whole of delivery team and be able to mentor and guide the junior team members.
• Keep upskilling yourselves on a regular basis on the new and latest technology trends and practices.
• Understand and contribute toward the level of code quality and test coverage within the SCRUM Team.
• Engage in technical discussion contributing to design and development.
• Liaise with Business Analysts, Product Managers and/or internal/external customers to ensure that requirements are understood.
• Understand and contribute toward the practice of BDD/TDD/DDD as part of the software engineer best practice.
• Participate in peer code reviews.

Requirements

• Required Technical skills/experience:
• 3+ year’s development experience or exposure using Microsoft .NET technologies to build Micro Service Architecture, Web and/or Console Applications as well as Windows and Web Services.
• Experience\Understanding in the below frameworks:.NET Core, WebApi Net Framework 4.6.*Asp.Net Core ,Angular, SQL Server or Azure SQL and/or NoSQL
• Experience\Understanding of DevOps practices including: Continuous integration/Deployment (CI/CD), QA Automation, Release Process, Cloud Development, Health Monitoring, Feature toggle-based Development, Cross Function collaboration
• Experience\Understanding to the below testing toolset: Postman, Insomnia, MSTest/NUnit, Protractor, Jasmine,JMeter, OWASP ZAP.
• Experience\Understanding to Cloud technologies including: Azure,Google
• OOP programming (theoretical and practical experience of OO design principles and patterns)
• Experience\Understanding Knowledge with Visual Studio programming environments and Azure DevOps

Skills

• Good oral and written communication skills; strong communication with both technical and business teams.
• Good administrative and organisational skills.
• Self-motivation and drive to take on personal responsibility.
• Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to quality.
• Critical reasoning and decision-making skills.