About Creditsafe:

With the largest owned database supported by a partner network, Creditsafe provides data on 320 million companies in over 100 countries to support its customers in this regard. Creditsafe is scaling business and currently going through a significant growth stage in Ireland. Being a data company, Creditsafe collects and processes large amounts of complex data, received from multiple channels with the only purpose of serving our clients with opportunities to gain actionable insights. Our holistic data aggregation helps our clients to fill the knowledge gaps, influence decision making, and find hidden patterns.

About Opportunity:

This opportunity is to join a team of highly technically skilled engineers, who are designing Creditsafe web and web services platform with high throughput and scalability as primary goal. Based on the test strategy and approach you will develop, enhance and execute tests that add value to the team’s deliverables. You will act as a primary source of guidance to Junior Test Engineers and Test Engineers in all areas of testing. You will contribute to the existing automation framework by adding tests based on appropriate test scenarios and have practical experience of implementation using established and recognised design patterns. You can confidently communicate test results with your team members and stakeholders using evidence and reports and you act as a mentor and coach to the less experienced members of the test team. You will promote and coach leading practices in test management, design and implementation. You will be part of an Agile team and will effectively contribute to the ceremonies, acting as the quality specialist within that team. You are an influencer and will provide leadership in defining and implementing agreed standards and will actively promote this within your team and the wider development community.

The wider Quality Assurance function within Creditsafe work together in driving a culture of quality into the teams acting as knowledge experts on quality. We test throughout the lifecycle and believe that the whole team is responsible for the quality of our deliverables. We implement intelligent automation and are proponents of thinking critically about the features developed by our teams.

JOB PROFILE

Based on the test strategy you will:

• Interrogate and question requirements and assumptions in user stories.

• Collaborate with the Agile team throughout the Sprint to produce valuable test scenarios and respond to new information.

• Develop, enhance, and execute tests that add value to the team deliverables.

• Contribute to the existing automation framework by adding tests based on appropriate test scenarios and design patterns.

• Confidently communicate test results with your team members and stakeholders using evidence and reports

• Be an advocate for quality and actively promote this within your team and the wider development community in Creditsafe.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES

• Support and mentor team members in all aspects of quality.

• Develop and maintain test artefacts created using Cypress.

• Carry out functional, non-functional and acceptance testing in-line with the test strategy and processes.

• Work closely with their Agile team to promote a whole team approach to quality.

• Manage and coordinate regression testing as part of the development cycle.

• Be the quality specialist within your Agile team, advocate for the appropriate levels of testing and take the initiative to make improvements.

• Document approaches and processes that improve the quality effort for use by team members and the wider test function.

• Have strong practical knowledge of software testing techniques and the ability to select the correct technique dependent on the problem at hand.

• Accurately and concisely document tasks using Azure Dev Ops.

• Undertake peer reviews of test artefacts produced by the team.

• Communicate progress in an understandable manner to relevant stakeholders.

• An understanding of performance testing strategies and how to apply them.

• Creation and maintenance of concise and accurate defect reports in line with the established defect process.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organise, analyse, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy

• Identifying and resolving issues with the data, such as errors, inconsistencies, or duplication

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• A good understanding of Agile development methodologies.

• Knowledge of ATDD, BDD, Unit testing, Integration testing and Acceptance testing

• An ability to read and write Cypress/JavaScript code suitably optimised for automation. A good understanding of the defect management lifecycle.

• Practical understanding of AWS Cloud services.

• A practical understanding of RESTful APIs, and experience with API testing using a tool such as Postman/Bruno.

• A practical knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Azure Dev Ops preferred)

• A good understanding of the SDLC and test activities that can be performed at each phase.

• Practical experience of exploratory testing.

• An understanding of performance testing strategies and how to apply them.

• Practical experience of modern testing frameworks.

• Teamwork – Encourages cooperation, collaboration and communication both within their team and the wider test community

• Problem Solving – Identifies problems within the team that would threaten the value of the product and seeks solutions by collaboration.

BENEFITS

• Competitive Salary.

• Performance Bonus Scheme.

• 20 Days Annual Leave (plus 10 bank holidays).

• Hybrid working model.

• Healthcare & Company Pension.

• Global Company gatherings and events.

• E-learning and excellent career progression opportunities.

• Gratuity

• Parents insurance and accidental insurance.

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