Davies is looking for an experienced Software Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer (Testing). Reporting to the Senior manager of Development, you will be accountable ensuring high-quality software delivery by planning, implementing, and automating quality assurance testing.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan and implement testing (e.g., regression, functional, data validation, system integration, load, or performance tests) for new and existing functionality.
- Automate test cases for unit testing + future use by writing scripts and create automation environments for repeated tests.
- Work closely with development teams to design testing strategies and integrate testing into the development process.
- Plan, create, execute, and automate test cases, working with business partners, developers, and other stakeholders.
- Document and analyze test results and recommend corrective action.
- Isolate, reproduce, manage, and maintain defects and test case databases, and verify fixes.
- Support user acceptance testing conducted by business partners or end users.
- Conduct exploratory testing and risk analysis for complex features, e.g., those that span across platforms or teams.
- Identify opportunities to reduce testing time and effort by automating repeatable tests.
- Enhance and maintain the test automation framework.
- Understand and apply automated testing approaches such as model-based testing or record-and-replay.
- Research, recommend, and implement new testing technologies and practices, such as incorporating machine learning.
- Define and champion quality and test best practices among development teams.
- Collaborate and share information with other software QA engineers, e.g., by participating in a community of practice.
- Experience with Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, Cypress, or similar automation frameworks.
- Exposure to API testing tools such as Postman or Swagger.
- Experience with SQL and database validation testing.
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
- Understanding of cloud-hosted applications within Azure or AWS environments.
- Familiarity with performance and load testing tools such as JMeter or k6.
- Experience testing microservices and API-driven architectures.
- Knowledge of insurance, financial services, or other regulated industries.