Job Description
Join our team and you’ll be responsible for ensuring quality throughout the whole software development cycle. You will guide and support others and lead the team by example with best testing practices.
Working in the data domain, you will work across multiple projects to identify potential issues, along with helping with refinement of requirements, and making informed judgement calls on the scope of testing required. You will have the opportunity to get involved in programming tasks if you so choose, or to help out with the business analysis.
You will play a vital role as we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody.
Your responsibilities
- Help the developers to create good quality automated acceptance tests to ensure the product is protected into the future
- Manual exploratory testing
- work hard to eliminate bugs before they are ever created, by contributing very actively in the planning stages
- Ensure that the User Stories accepted into the sprints have complete acceptance criteria, are testable, and indeed that any important requirements are not forgotten (e.g. error scenarios, security, and non-functional requirements)
- Bring testing experience to the team and to help other team members write good quality automated tests
Qualifications
Understanding of data engineering concepts - technical skills; SQL, Python, Data Warehousing, ETL, Facts and Dimensions, and cloud technologies - redshift, s3.Experience in Exploratory Testing, automation experience, and time and attention management between multiple projects.Experience analysing user stories for their testing requirements both functional and non-functionalExperience contributing to the automated regression tests, ability to isolate causes for hard to reproduce bugs and ability to influence and persuade other team membersExperience working on an Agile / Scrum team , and a self-starter who does not wait for tasks or tickets but always seeks to contribute to the Agile team in any way possible, and seeks to improve own skills to increase contributionAdditional Information
We’re a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you’re with us. Because your job shouldn’t take over your life, it should enrich it.
Here are some of the benefits we offer :
30 days of holidays + 2 extra days for Christmas and New Year's EveHybrid working modelCompany pension scheme24 / 7 Employee Assistance ProgrammeLife Assurance CoverVolunteering daysJob bikeDiscounted parking or job ticketIn-house gymIn-house baristaAnd you can bring your dog to the officeOur commitment
Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.