Test Engineer

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Test Engineer for an initial 6 month contract on a rate of £450/day (Inside IR35). This role will be remote working.

Responsibilities:

- You will be part of an established agile delivery team working to deliver a new public facing digital authorisation application service, associated back-office database and internal back office system. This is a fast-paced, delivery-focused role where working independently whilst collaborating effectively within the wider team is key.

Essential Skills:

- Designing and executing a wide range of functional and non-functional testing techniques

- Communicating test results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

- Identifying defects, alerting the business to them, and helping to prioritise them based on severity

- Creating test documentation and continually reviewing the test processes, proactively making improvements to benefit the quality of the project delivery and improve team efficiency

- Ability to write and execute SQL queries for Oracle database testing

- Having a good working knowledge of different tools, techniques and frameworks including but not limited to Automated testing frameworks such as Playwright and coding languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript/NodeJS, Cross browser testing tools such as BrowserStack, Test Management Tools such as Azure DevOps Test Plans, Source Code Management tools such as Git

- Working within agile delivery teams

Desirable Skills:

- Experience using Azure DevOps pipelines and boards as well as Azure cloud infrastructure and deployments using Azure services

- Knowledge of Oracle database structures, triggers and stored procedures

- Experience with performance testing techniques and practices using tools such as JMeter

- Understanding of Oracle APEX architecture with experience validating application functionality

- Experience in testing applications built on the Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate) or Dynamics 365

- Understanding of Angular with experience validating front-end behaviour and functionality

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.