Software Tester / Testing Lead

Pe Global

Limerick

Software Quality Assurance and Testing Lead / Limerick / Permanent. We are working with a client who has an opportunity for a quality assurance specialist with experience of both manual and automated testing who is seeking the opportunity to grow and diversify their career. The company is based in Citywest, with offices in Limerick and Sligo. Our preference is for the successful candidate to be based in Limerick. This is a new role, within a growing company, which comes with the opportunity to define the QA infrastructure and processes within the organization.Working as the QA/testing lead on the software development team, you will be responsible for both the timely and efficient testing of new functionality/bug fixes and for delivering process improvement. Within the project team you will be responsible for reporting on the status of open issues and estimating testing workload. You will design test coverage, test cases and test data, report product issues, bug analyses and investigate them to their resolution, and attend product design and technical design meetings to contribute to improved QA coverage. The candidate will become a subject matter expert in our product and in clinical trials system in general. What is on offer: Flexibility in location. A competitive salary. Opportunities for progression and career diversification. You will be: Able to deliver operationally and by improving our testing processes. A person with proven experience in software testing and QA. A multi-tasker, responsive to changing project requirements. A good listener and talker, able to act as an internal salesman for good testing practice. Self-motivated and goal oriented, able to work effectively and to motivate and lead the project team in testing/QA issues. Yours skills/personal toolkit: Agile/SCRUM. JIRA/Confluence. Selenium / automated testing tools. Microsoft office. Database querying / SQL. Your experience: A relevant qualification (i.e. a Computer Science degree, ISTQB certification, FETAC in software testing.) At least four years of testing experience encompassing both manual and automated testing. Experience of working in a regulated environment desirable (Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Banking or Insurance). Your work will be subject to both internal and external audit. Experience of working as part of a distributed team is desirable. Please send in your CV for the attention of Robert Carroll of contact 021 4520311 for more information. This job originally appeared on RecruitIreland.com.

2287 days ago