Senior Manual QA Analyst

We're looking for a Senior Manual QA Analyst (1-year contract with the possibility of prolongation) to join our fast-growing team and help us build the most trusted and personalized service in the world.

Project
One of our clients is the global market leader for lifestyle and travel concierge and loyalty solutions, and it’s growing quickly. As a leading global service business, they help busy people get the most out of their lives and pride themselves on providing the very best customer experience possible. To do this, they are working with the best people.

They have been at the forefront of exceptional service for nearly 20 years. Their mission is to be the world's most trusted service platform. Since 1998 they've combined always-on, personalized, premium, and specialist knowledge - with world-class expert-led customer service - and continuous innovation in technology. Today, they serve millions of members in 35 countries around the world, working with more than 40 corporate partners, from 20 offices located in the most important wealth centers. They provide direct access to unique cultural, gastronomic, and travel experiences, exclusively negotiated benefits, and unparalleled customer service.

Work environment

• This role is based in Budapest
• 4 days home office
• Non-strict working hours (within reasonable limits)
• Growing local team with a strong technical background
• Interesting international projects – colleagues from several countries
• Great team, regular team-building events
• Premium business laptop helps your work
• We are open to your ideas
• Team breakfast on every Tuesday morning
  

Key responsibilities:

• Working collaboratively with Product Owner, Scrum Master, Developers and Testers at all aspects of SDLC to implement Software testing lifecycle.
• Devise test strategy, covering both functional and non-functional aspects, and produce the required test artefacts, i.e. test plan, test cases, test data, issue reports and test execution reports.
• Perform functional and non-functional testing as per the defined test strategy.
• Perform security/penetration testing of system in collaboration with other teams.
• Develop deep understanding of system architecture/design and prepare the reusable scripts for testing and troubleshooting common application flows.
• Gain required business and system knowledge to act as subject matter experts.
• Prepare knowledge base articles for the assigned new features.
• Analysing and recording test results and reporting software bug.
• Attend all Scrum ceremonies of the assigned project and team.
• Participate actively in project and team meetings to voice feedback, issues and suggestions.
• Research the new tools and technologies pertaining to software testing and development in general.

Requirements

• Min. 4-5 years’ experience while working as QA member in an agile (Scrum) and/or process-based environment, with extensive exposure to all aspects of SDLC and STLC.
• Have independently defined and implemented test strategy (covering both functional and non-functional testing) for medium to large scale projects(s),
• Have hands-on experience in testing enterprise level web applications (Angular, CSS and HTML) and web services (REST/SOAP).
• Proficiency in testing toolkit for web applications and web services, like SOAPUI, Fiddler or Postman, Browser Dev Tools, etc.
• Working knowledge of at least one relational DBMS, SQLServer, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
• Experience in maintaining Windows and Linux based on-premises and cloud (preferably AWS) test environments.
• Hands-on experience in creating & maintaining all the testing related artefacts for all phases of testing (Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases & End User Acceptance Completion Reports)
• Organised and capable of working on multiple tasks efficiently.
• Self-motivated and capable of working independently and within teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Nice to have:

• Familiarity or experience in application/system penetration testing above and beyond running automated tools.
• Understanding of security standards, penetration testing and ethical hacking, such as, OWASP, CREST, OSCP, etc.