Hybrid QA Engineer QA Engineer with verification
DXC Technology · United Kingdom (Remote) · nan, · Hybrid
About the job
Job Description
QA Engineer
Location: Remote within the UK
Level of clearance: SC
Due to Security clearance requirements candidates must be UK national/British passport holder/Single nationality and resided in the UK for 5 years.
About DXC
DXC Technology (DXC: NYSE) is the world’s leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, helping clients harness the power of innovation to thrive on change. Created by the merger of CSC and the Enterprise Services business of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC Technology serves nearly 6,000 private and public sector clients across 70 countries. The company’s technology independence, global talent and extensive partner network combine to deliver powerful next-generation IT services and solutions. DXC Technology is recognized among the best corporate citizens globally.
Would you describe yourself as a creative and ambitious technology lead who is always ready to take on the next cutting-edge technology? If your answer is yes, you are going to fit right in with our team. We are looking for a passionate, motivated, experienced, innovative individuals who would like to be part of our vision in helping clients transform their business.
Our technical roles offer you the chance to grow your skills and experience whilst working alongside some of the most talented people in DXC.
The Role
This role is for an individual who enjoys automation, likes challenges and can demonstrate problem solving skills.
Responsibilities
DXC provide a comprehensive Flex benefits scheme including investment in development, Pension, Life Insurance, Health insurance, travel insurance, store vouchers/discounts, 25 days holiday and options to increase holiday and select benefits appropriate to you.
Recruitment fraud is a scheme in which fictitious job opportunities are offered to job seekers typically through online services, such as false websites, or through unsolicited emails claiming to be from the company. These emails may request recipients to provide personal information or to make payments as part of their illegitimate recruiting process. DXC does not make offers of employment via social media networks and DXC never asks for any money or payments from applicants at any point in the recruitment process, nor ask a job seeker to purchase IT or other equipment on our behalf. More information on employment scams is available here.
QA Engineer
Location: Remote within the UK
Level of clearance: SC
Due to Security clearance requirements candidates must be UK national/British passport holder/Single nationality and resided in the UK for 5 years.
About DXC
DXC Technology (DXC: NYSE) is the world’s leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, helping clients harness the power of innovation to thrive on change. Created by the merger of CSC and the Enterprise Services business of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC Technology serves nearly 6,000 private and public sector clients across 70 countries. The company’s technology independence, global talent and extensive partner network combine to deliver powerful next-generation IT services and solutions. DXC Technology is recognized among the best corporate citizens globally.
Would you describe yourself as a creative and ambitious technology lead who is always ready to take on the next cutting-edge technology? If your answer is yes, you are going to fit right in with our team. We are looking for a passionate, motivated, experienced, innovative individuals who would like to be part of our vision in helping clients transform their business.
Our technical roles offer you the chance to grow your skills and experience whilst working alongside some of the most talented people in DXC.
The Role
This role is for an individual who enjoys automation, likes challenges and can demonstrate problem solving skills.
Responsibilities
- Work with product and engineering teams to plan, develop and execute automated test suites.
- Maintain, evaluate and address issues with automated tests.
- Create and maintain reusable test data for automation scripts.
- Responsible for defect tracking, communication, and resolution.
- Maintain and optimize existing test automation frameworks.
- Develop new automation libraries adhering to software development standards.
- Continuously improve and learn by trying new test automation tools, processes, or methodologies.
- Collaborate with QA teams to ensure proper testing coverage and automation priorities.
- Implement efficient monitoring and analysis of automated test results.
- Provide scheduled progress reports to management.
- Develop effective, reusable and maintainable automated functional test framework and test cases to achieve maximum code coverage in a fast-paced agile environment.
- Integrate tests into the make/build process for continuous integration efficiency gains using frameworks such as Jenkins.
- Ensure that Automation scripts function well across all supported browsers and platforms.
- Perform manual testing of test cases as and when needed.
- Reviews automated tests and provide suggestions to improve the quality of the test.
- Communicate test results and highlight any potential quality risks.
- Ensure test automation design is traceable to requirements or existing manual test cases and achieves a high level of requirement/test execution coverage.
- Interact with product management, project management and engineering teams to develop a strong understanding of the project and product testing objectives
- Identify and implement continual improvement initiatives to help clients improve overall quality.
- B.S. in Computer Science or related area, or relevant work experience.
- Several years of experience with QA automation development and testing in Web, Desktop and Mobile.
- Hands-on experience with Selenium Webdriver and test automation framework.
- Experience with database development concepts, especially Microsoft SQL Server
- Hands-on experience with test management tools such as JIRA, Confluence VSTS or HP ALM is preferred.
- Expertise in Test Complete, Selenium, or JavaScript. Proficiency in other scripting languages is desired, such as C# and Unix Shell Scripts, etc.
- Demonstrated programming skills in Python, Java, or related languages.
- Hands-on experience with Jenkins.
- Hands-on experience with manual functional testing.
- Experience in automation build processes, application deployments and continuous integration systems.
- Experience with all phases of software testing including test planning, functional testing, and regression testing.
- Experience testing all layers of a Web application, including front-end, service layer, and back-end testing.
- Strong knowledge of automated test methodologies is essential, including automated test script development, automated test tool/utility development, and participation in establishment of an automated testing framework.
- Strong experience developing automation frameworks with Test Complete.
- Strong knowledge of multiple software development methodologies including Agile.
- Expertise in defect tracking tools such as Atlassian JIRA, ALM.
- In-depth knowledge of QA methodologies and best practices.
- Client/Server and Web/Internet application testing experience.
- Ability to work well independently and as a part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience working in a continuous integration or continuous delivery environment using Jenkins, SVN/GIT or equivalent tools.
- Product testing experience is a plus.
- Java scripting experience is a plus.
- Willingness to execute both manual and automated tests as needed in addition to development responsibilities.
- Strong communication and organizational skills.
- Proven ability to manage and prioritize multiple, diverse projects simultaneously.
- Must be flexible, independent and self-motivated.
DXC provide a comprehensive Flex benefits scheme including investment in development, Pension, Life Insurance, Health insurance, travel insurance, store vouchers/discounts, 25 days holiday and options to increase holiday and select benefits appropriate to you.
Recruitment fraud is a scheme in which fictitious job opportunities are offered to job seekers typically through online services, such as false websites, or through unsolicited emails claiming to be from the company. These emails may request recipients to provide personal information or to make payments as part of their illegitimate recruiting process. DXC does not make offers of employment via social media networks and DXC never asks for any money or payments from applicants at any point in the recruitment process, nor ask a job seeker to purchase IT or other equipment on our behalf. More information on employment scams is available here.
