Job title: Senior Automation QA Engineer

Location: Cambridge

Job Type: Permanent

Salary: £45,000 - £55,000

Start Date: ASAP

Description:

Do you want to work for a technology company who are doing positive things for the world?

SoCode are delighted to be working with a technology company who specialise in the medical sector.  This company are developing solutions to help provide insights into major health concerns and diseases.

They have big growth plans for the next 12 months and are looking to expand their teams across the business.

Working in the Software team, you will be involved in…

• Reviewing software requirements/designs
• Writing and reviewing software test cases and implementing automated tests in Python
• Reviewing other Software Testers automated tests
• Verifying bug-fixes, performing formal verification, and capturing evidence and writing verification reports
• Working with software developers, scientists, and domain experts in understanding requirements of the software and translating to test cases and automated test scripts
• Working in our requirements management tool to review software requirements
• Working independently/collaboratively in cross-functional teams, delivering the testing effort on multiple applications
• Working in a scrum environment with daily stand-ups, bi-weekly demos, and sprint planning meetings
• Collaborating with other software test engineers to automate software test cases within a maintainable test automation environment
• Collaborating with peers, identifying and implementing opportunities for process improvement

You will have the following skills and experience…

• Software testing/Developer in an Agile software team
• Excellent communication skills, both spoken and written, and the ability to understand complex systems for you to be able to design rigorous test cases.
• Using and testing Linux systems
• Testing analytical / data processing systems
• Testing systems based on large-scale relational databases
• Automated testing web-based user interfaces, using tools such as Selenium

• Testing systems based on large-scale relational databases
• Familiarity with programming languages, (Python, Java, C#)
• Experience working in the biotech or life sciences industry (desirable)