Waterstones Recruitment – Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Description:

At Waterstones, everything we do is about our customers, and we work hard to provide them with the best possible shopping experience, one that will make them want to visit time and time again. We strive to consistently deliver fantastic customer service, whether recommending a book or a gift, keeping our shops beautifully stocked, helping out in our lovely Café Ws, or keeping the wheels turning efficiently behind the scene. Working with us, you will get to use your expertise and enthusiasm to bring to our customers the irreplaceable pleasures of a good bookshop (including a virtual one).

Job Responsibilities:

• Participate in release planning and sprint planning and provide test effort estimation
• Measure and report on the coverage and quality of the Platform

   

   

• Escalate issues, risks and impediments appropriately and timely
•  Identify, record, thoroughly document and track defects
•  Participate in defect triage meetings
•  Provide insightful input to retrospectives.
•  Identify areas of improvement and build upon best practice
• Programatically test and report on new features and projects within an ecommerce environment
• Produce and regularly update technical documentation
•  Participate in requirements specification and backlog-grooming sessions
• Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to stakeholders
•  Capture and track quality assurance metrics

Job Requirements:

•  Knowledge of test methodologies, tools and processes
•  Experience of Functional Testing and regression testing

   

• Strong sense of ownership and proven ability to adapt and handle multiple tasks and deadlines.

   

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with demonstrated attention to detail
• Experience in test automation, refactoring code, debugging, and testing frameworks

   

• Knowledge of Agile, Iterative development process and methodologies is essential.
•  Experience of device testing for Web and Mobile applications
• Team player with excellent collaboration, interpersonal and communications skills
• In depth knowledge of testing paradigms and processes
• Experience of Atlassian suite of tools (Jira & Confluence)

Qualification & Experience:

• Java / JavaScript programming
• Experience with device farms such as SauceLab and CrossBrowserTesting
• Experience developing automated frameworks
• Experience in the retail industr
• Experience with automated testing of the Mobile applications.
• Experience IntelliJ and Git
• Ability to work with undocumented or sparsely documented systems

Job Details:

Company: Waterstones

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: London, England

Application Deadline: N/A