Senior Software Quality Engineer

Glass Lewis

Limerick
Permanent
Full-time

22 days ago
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Company OverviewGlass Lewis is the world’s choice for governance solutions. We enable institutional investors and publicly-listed companies to make sustainable decisions based in research and data. We cover 30,000+ meetings each year, across approximately 100 global markets.Our customers include the majority of the world’s largest pension plans, mutual funds, and asset managers, collectively managing over $40 trillion in assets. We have teams located across the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific giving us global reach with a local perspective on the important governance issues. Founded in 2003, Glass Lewis is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Kansas City, Missouri; London, U.K.; Paris, France; Limerick, Ireland; Karlsruhe, Germany; Sydney, Australia; and Tokyo, Japan.Position:We are looking for an Engineer to play key role in a small team driving our efforts in quality assurance. The right candidate is highly motivated, self-driven, eager to learn, and passionate about taking ownership of their contribution to the product. We are a highly professional, self-organising team working in a truly agile environment. Our culture is built on being open to new ideas and feedback and we believe in building great software, technical excellence and having fun.Responsibilities:

Key responsibility to ensure that all quality checks, risk assessment and processes and procedures have been followed by the teams in relation to all releases to production.
Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities with our teams to ensure quality and test coverage.
Collaborate in an agile environment, actively participating in agile ceremonies including Daily Stand-ups
Assist teams in developing test plans and cases to ensure accuracy and completeness.
Review user stories requirements, specifications and technical design documents when required
Work with agile teams to identify integration points for new work
Create and maintain dependency documentation for system wide regression
Assist with execution of manual testing with a close eye to transition to automation testing.

RequirementsWhat you’ll bring to the tableAbove all we value communication, common sense and interpersonal skills. The ideal candidate will bring:

Strong documentation and communication skills.
Willingness to give and take feedback and share knowledge
A strong desire to learn and improve.
The ability to influence QA and testing best practices within your team
Willingness to transition/ learn to automated testing

From a technical perspective we would require a minimum of 5 years QA experience through the entire lifecycle of an enterprise application. Use of the following technologies and methodologies would be a distinct advantage:

Proven work experience in software development
Proven work experience in software quality assurance
Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
Hands-on experience in API testing
Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
Hands-on experience with automated testing tools ( Cypress and Playwright)
Hands-on experience in Performance testing ( e.g: JMeter)
Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting (Java Script)
Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process

Nice to have's

Experience with security testing is a plus
BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

Benefits

Employer Pension Contribution *
Private Health Insurance *
Life Insurance *
Long term illness Cover *
Supported Study Leave

*on completion of 6 month probationPlease note, only applicants who are eligible to work in Ireland with no restrictions will be considered (e.g. EU Citizens/ applicants with permanent residence permits)

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