AddressOur mission is a simple one: To enhance the way Recruitment Organizations interact with their clients and candidates through innovative software built from Microsoft Dynamics & The power platform.
Mercury is a digital transformation champion in the recruiting industry. Working with Mercury means collaborating with a team of professionals to support your digital transformation by implementing cutting-edge technology with limitless scalability to empower your employees and increase their efficiency and productivity. We have created an eco-system that our customers can plug into in order to improve how they Attract, Assess, Search, Onboard and Retain talent.
We are Microsoft Partner for 7 competencies in total and we have ambitions to grow the company again in the next 2 years from 135 employees to 200+, globally.
We are seeking a QA Engineer who has experience using automation tools to join us at our Coleshill office with hybrid working options available. Our ultimate vision is to be the number one SaaS solutions provide to the Recruitment and Staffing industry, globally.
Career Development
At Mercury, career development will also be a major factor in how far you advance. To encourage you to learn new skills related to your job function, we have partnered with an external supplier, Udemy. This will be available to you throughout your time with us.
The role
You will work as part of a cross functional self-organising Agile development team and be involved with the refinement of requirements, planning and delivery of quality software solutions while contributing ideas to help the team with its continual improvement.
Day to day you will work closely with developers to ensure the quality of our software solutions and with Product Owners to ensure all deliverables are in-line with customer requirements. This will be achieved through a combination of manual testing and automation testing techniques.
The QA Engineer is responsible for the following core activities: -
- Work with the Product team to understand and refine requirements and agree acceptance criteria in collaboration with the rest of the development team.
- Write, execute, and maintain a suite of automated API tests for Mercury integrations using Ready API.
- Carry out manual API testing with tools such as Postman, ReadyAPI and Swagger.
- Work collaboratively with Developers as part of an Agile development team to test user stories as they’re being developed.
- Effectively log and help to prioritise defects using Azure DevOps
- Conduct regression testing activities in preparation for a release.
- Contribute to the evolving culture of innovation.
- Ensure departmental and company processes are followed.
Essential
- Demonstrable expertise in the whole testing life cycle including knowledge of various test methodologies, definition of test plans and test scripts, test execution and raising defects.
- Proven experience of testing complex user interfaces and applications.
- Experience working within Agile Development Teams using frameworks such as Kanban or SCRUM.
- Familiarity with modern software development and knowledge of the core technologies used within the company.
- Experience testing APIs with tools such as Postman, ReadyAPI or Swagger.
- Experience developing automated API testing suites.
- Experience working with GIT source control and familiar with branching strategies.
- Experience logging and managing defects in a tool such as Azure DevOps.
- Ability to assess the priority and severity of issues using a standard framework.
- Ability to accurately estimate tasks and meet agreed schedules.
- ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level.
The people
We have cyclists, video gamer heroes, skiers/boarders, runners, musicians, sport junkies, golfers, gym goers, foodies, travellers, artists, animal lovers, photographers, marvel enthusiasts, climbers and loads more!
