Test Engineer
Job Title:
Test Engineer
Job Description:
Job Description
Position Test Engineer
Location Global (Remote)
Reporting to Head of Quality Engineering
Salary
Permanent/Temporary Permanent – Full Time
Benefits
The Role
An experienced Test Engineer is highly sought by Packt, a leading publisher of Information Technology eBooks and Videos.
You will join our team of Test Engineers, testing our existing products and services along with in-house systems and projects. You will work collaboratively with a global team of Testers and Software Developers to ensure that our products are of the highest quality and that our customers enjoy the best possible experience.
You will support our Product Owners to ensure requirements are ready, create and execute test cases, document and log any potential bugs (JIRA) and test across multiple browsers and platforms including web and mobile!
Candidates should already have coding knowledge, and experience of performance testing with systems such as Gatling.
Reporting to the Head of Quality Engineering, this role will grow our team for building a fast-flowing pipeline of high-quality releases.
Responsibilities
• Reviewing and analysing User Requirements (Jira), while supporting our Product Owners to ensure requirements are ready.
• Design and create test scenarios with a mix of test design techniques
• Functional and Regression Test Execution across multiple platforms and browsers, including web and mobile while recording evidence.
• API testing (Postman)
• Test Automation
• NFR Testing (load, stress & soak testing)
• Preparing Test Plans
• Raising defects / bugs with a high level of detail, and retesting
Requirements
• Fantastic attention to detail: Able to see inconsistencies and issues at the smallest level of detail and to appreciate the value of a high quality product.
• Investigation: Step outside the bounds of a specific requirement to see potential edge cases and the chaotic process a user may follow.
• Commercial judgment: Able to understand the commercial drivers that impact on our customers and can discuss solutions in terms of business benefit and ROI.
• Customer focus: Seeks to understand customer needs, and puts this at the heart of decision making
• Innovative: Introduce fresh insight and ideas, continually seeking improvement.
• Articulate: Can put ideas across simply and clearly, and organize a complex reality into a simple and logical structure.
• Co-operation and influence: Sees impacts of change across the organization, gets buy in from stakeholders, positive and creative engagement. Understands and empathizes with other parts of the organization.
Essential Requirements:
3+ years’ experience of testing web applications
Experience of Agile software development
Understand the Testing Lifecycle
Able to support Product Owners in ensuring requirements are ready.
Multi-Platform and Multi-Browser Testing
Good commercial judgement
Project management and process improvement skills
Ability to collaborate with cross-functional and cross-departmental teams
Commitment to driving results
Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate information and ideas clearly
Able to communicate product readiness, level of quality and test results in daily stand-ups
Desirable:
Experience of testing high volume public websites (>100k visitors per month)
Experience of automated testing (TestCafe or similar)
Experience of load testing (Gatling or similar)
Experience of API testing (Postman)
Experience of code versioning such as Git
Experience of ticket tracking software (Jira)
Coding Knowledge (JavaScript, Scala, CoffeeScript, TypeScript or similar)
ISTQB/ISEB Foundation or above
Person Specification:
Unrelenting interest in problem solving
Ability to build effective working partnerships
Acting as a change agent with a clear vision and goal
Championing all aspects of the Platforms function and commercial performance
Ability to deliver at the detail level as well as the big picture
Consistent
Confident
Team Player but also capable of working independently
Good Communicator
Enthusiastic and proactive with regards to deliverables and self learning
Experience Range:
3 - 6 years
Educational Qualifications:
-B.Tech/B.E in Computers , -B.SC in Computers
Job Responsibilities:
• Reviewing and analysing User Requirements (Jira), while supporting our Product Owners to ensure requirements are ready.
• Design and create test scenarios with a mix of test design techniques
• Functional and Regression Test Execution across multiple platforms and browsers, including web and mobile while recording evidence.
• API testing (Postman)
• Test Automation
• NFR Testing (load, stress & soak testing)
• Preparing Test Plans
• Raising defects / bugs with a high level of detail, and retesting
Skills Required:
Automation Testing , Performance testing , api testing
Job Code: KL-7MFFHDLE
About Us
Founded in 2004 in Birmingham, UK, Packt is a developer skills platform that supports software professionals in learning the skills they need to stay relevant in their field.
Packt aims to put software to work in new ways by delivering effective learning and information services to IT professionals, whether that's specific learning on an emerging technology or optimizing key skills in more established tools.
Working closer to that vision, we have published >7000 videos, books, and courses on a spectrum of technologies, including Big Data, Cyber-security, AI, Machine Learning, and Cloud. With our author network of 6500+ experts, we have the unique ability to publish on emerging technologies faster than any other publisher, giving us the edge on providing relevant content that updates as quickly as technology moves. This translates into >50 fresh learning content pieces each month (within Explorer, our target is to publish around 25 books per month across the four categories, namely Data Science, Admin & Cloud, Coding & Tools, and Programming).
Covering both emerging and established tools and trends through a variety of learning formats, we have a growing ecosystem of resources and products that we want every developer to explore and utilize in their lives.
Our videos, courses, eBooks, and bespoke-to-your-business training services deliver effective and concise learning, coupled with guides and tutorials to help you through your digital transformation. Companies embracing our content stay competitive and relevant in this fast-changing landscape of latest technologies.
Packt aims to put software to work in new ways by delivering effective learning and information services to IT professionals, whether that's specific learning on an emerging technology or optimizing key skills in more established tools.
Working closer to that vision, we have published >7000 videos, books, and courses on a spectrum of technologies, including Big Data, Cyber-security, AI, Machine Learning, and Cloud. With our author network of 6500+ experts, we have the unique ability to publish on emerging technologies faster than any other publisher, giving us the edge on providing relevant content that updates as quickly as technology moves. This translates into >50 fresh learning content pieces each month (within Explorer, our target is to publish around 25 books per month across the four categories, namely Data Science, Admin & Cloud, Coding & Tools, and Programming).
Covering both emerging and established tools and trends through a variety of learning formats, we have a growing ecosystem of resources and products that we want every developer to explore and utilize in their lives.
Our videos, courses, eBooks, and bespoke-to-your-business training services deliver effective and concise learning, coupled with guides and tutorials to help you through your digital transformation. Companies embracing our content stay competitive and relevant in this fast-changing landscape of latest technologies.
Why Us?
A job at Packt is a career made by you, with development opportunities, benefits and a working culture that embraces diversity. So whether you’re looking for an internship, graduate opportunities, or a full-time job opening to progress your professional career, at Packt you can shape your own path as you work with the products and people that drive our rapid business growth.
Our vision and values are part of our open culture in which a personal approach is central to achieving optimum performance. They guide our daily decisions and actions. They underpin everything we say and do.
Our Vision
To be the most trusted developer skills service that developers rely on to stay relevant.
Our Values
Relentless: We don't stop when it comes to supporting developers. And we don't let up in supporting each other to remain creative and driven in how we work.
Reliable: People can trust Packt. All our actions and our language are driven by a shared understanding that someone always depends on the work we do.
Responsive: At every moment, we're actually aware of what's important to both our customers and colleagues. Because we're responsive, we don't let things happen to us - we make things happen.
Our vision and values are part of our open culture in which a personal approach is central to achieving optimum performance. They guide our daily decisions and actions. They underpin everything we say and do.
Our Vision
To be the most trusted developer skills service that developers rely on to stay relevant.
Our Values
Relentless: We don't stop when it comes to supporting developers. And we don't let up in supporting each other to remain creative and driven in how we work.
Reliable: People can trust Packt. All our actions and our language are driven by a shared understanding that someone always depends on the work we do.
Responsive: At every moment, we're actually aware of what's important to both our customers and colleagues. Because we're responsive, we don't let things happen to us - we make things happen.
