Agile Software Test Analyst
Location: Taunton, Somerset
Reporting to: Software Test Manager
Salary: £30,000-£40,000 depending on experience
Background:
Metron is a software house with over 20 years experience in the provision of Performance Management and Capacity Planning tools (athene®) to high-value clients.
The athene® product line is the leading performance and capacity management software for Windows, UNIX, Linux, VMware and z/OS.
Metron is undergoing a transformation to an agile software development practice, and is seeking to strengthen the testing capabilities of the development team.
The ideal candidate will have at least 4 years professional testing experience, with at least 1 years experience in an agile environment. Candidates who can demonstrate the following capabilities will be preferred:
- Writing black box and GUI test cases, designing tests to mitigate risks, and helping business experts define requirements
- Translating business acceptance criteria into automated test cases.
- An ability to collaborate with programmers and product owners
- Working as part of a self-organizing team, rather than waiting for work to be assigned.
- Working in short (2 week) iterations.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- At least one year experience with Fitnesse or some very similar tool, creation of fixtures in C# highly desirable.
- Writing simple SQL queries and insert/update statements and basic grasp of MS SQL Server.
- Basic UNIX shell commands
- Experience of delivering localized applications (Metron has a significant user community in Germany and Japan).
- Any exposure to context-based, exploratory, or scenario testing would be a bonus.
The position will be office based, at Metron’s UK headquarters in Taunton, Somerset.
Please send CV’s to testjobs@metron-athene.com. No Agencies. |
