POS Test Engineer

Quality Assurance holds a vital place in River Island Engineering Strategy and is an integral part of the development team. It is indeed an exciting time for RI Tech as we are transitioning to microservices architecture and embracing a DevOps culture. We strive to continuously improve our development and testing processes to shorten feedback loops and maximise value.

We are looking for an experienced test engineer to champion QA in one of our cross-functional teams. With a thorough working knowledge of agile methodologies, you will engage proactively with the team to understand business requirements, elaborate user stories and define acceptance criteria. You will plan, define and execute testing of all project deliveries; triage issues found and report on progress. As a champion of quality assurance, you will help align testing strategy to enable us to be better and faster. You will champion and drive improvements in quality assurance in your team using test automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Review and ensure requirements/user stories/acceptance criteria stated are correct, unambiguous, and verifiable.
• Work as an embedded tester in the context of a scrum team, evaluating the complexity of user stories, contributing to estimates during sprint planning, developing and performing tests.
• Champion a shift-left approach to in-sprint testing.
• Conduct appropriate levels and types of testing of user stories.
• Collaborate with developers on architecture and design, evaluate and improve processes to enhance software quality
• Identify and inform the team of any impediments or risks to product quality or project delivery
• Automate tests where cost-effective to ensure software delivered is fit for purpose and meets business needs
• Ensure defects are documented in sufficient detail to be reproducible
• Proactively share knowledge and information with others
• Assist and support business users during user acceptance testing
• Ensure all work is completed on time and under established processes, practices, procedures and quality standards

Who You Are

• Extensive experience with agile quality assurance practices and in depth understanding of test- driven development, continuous integration, agile testing
• Experience of test automation using any of the languages (Java, C#, JS, TS etc.)
• Knowledge of Test Data provisioning and management for testing
• Experience of planning, executing and validating tests across the full test spectrum (functional, non-functional, regression, integration, UAT, OAT etc)
• Experience of Risk analysis and Risk Based Regression Testing
• In depth knowledge of Exploratory testing techniques and Rapid software testing
• Experience of testing complex enterprise applications, web applications and databases
• Familiarity with any of the scripting languages (Shell/Python/Groovy etc.)
• Experience of working with project/issue tracking tools like JIRA/Confluence and Test management tools like HP ALM (erstwhile QC), Zephyr, XRay etc

You Will Ideally Have

• Experience in the Retail industry and exposure to testing on PoS systems, Mobile POS, Handhelds etc
• Advance knowledge of SQL
• Experience of API testing
• SCM, Build & CI Tools like Github, Jenkins, TeamCity or similar
• Cloud infrastructure like AWS, Azure etc
• Automated Test frameworks like Appium, Selenium WebDriver or similar
• Experience working with 3rd party software vendor teams