Job Number: 337

External Description:

Job Title: Tester

Location: Hybrid -Poole 2 days per week 

About us: Consultants on Demand: a consultancy start-up with global backing.

 

Imagine Consultants on Demand: a consultancy service offered by Randstad Sourceright across all our clients in the UK and Ireland. Imagine enjoying the dynamic culture of being a consultant across many industries and markets whilst being part of a global company in a fixed term role. It’s a start-up-like environment backed by global security and continuous development.

You can share your career with us - and grow - by getting the opportunity to work with a number of our clients as well as having access to the continuous learning and development opportunities that RSR has to offer. We encourage our consultants to become pioneers in this space, helping us to evolve the offering for both our clients and our talent.

 

Imagine doing this together with a community of professionals from different backgrounds and expertise within the consultancy and across the overall RSR global community. Imagine Consultants on Demand.

 

Consultants on Demand sits within Randstad Sourceright: the global talent strategic partner specialising in talent management solutions including Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), Managed Service Programs (MSP), Integrated Talent Solutions including this brand-new consultancy offering.

 

Overview

My client is at the forefront of developing innovative traffic management solutions. They are dedicated to enhancing road safety and efficiency through cutting-edge technology. The team is growing, and they are looking for a talented Tester to join in their mission to create smarter and safer traffic systems.

 

Role

Our products and services touch many aspects of everyday mobility including the future of

Autonomous Connected Vehicles, Clean Air Zones, Speed and Bus Lane Enforcement, Congestion

Charging, and Electric Vehicle Charging. If you drove or took public transport today, you almost

certainly interacted with what we do every day to keep our roads safe and running freely.

The developers in our R&D team are responsible for the creation of innovative mobility solutions in

the United Kingdom and Worldwide. The systems deployed typically utilise core sub-systems and

products along with customer specific developments and configuration.

 

The Software Tester will be working on large customer developments. The teams are working on

Clean Air Zone, Average Speed and Congestion Charging systems that will improve the lives of the

public in the UK by keeping pollution levels in the major cities to an acceptable level. The teams are

multi-disciplinary, consisting of Angular, Node JS and Java developers as well as testers performing

manual and automated testing using frameworks and APIs such as Cypress, Cucumber, Serenity,

Postman and Insomnia. You will be bringing your experience of sprint testing, system testing (manual

and automated) and customer facing integration/acceptance testing as we build and improve our

modern AWS hosted solutions for different customers.

 

Key Responsibilities

• You have experience of writing formal tests derived from requirements and acceptance criteria from various sources
• You enjoy and are able to develop and implement automated testing (using existing frameworks), which will be used for regression purposes.
• You actively participate in project-wide reviews of stories and design documents, including input into the acceptance criteria.
• You have exposure to tools such as GitLab, Docker, Jira, Xray and Confluence.
• You have experience testing within a cloud environment (i.e. AWS).
• You can demonstrate experience of successfully working within time, quality and budget constraints.
• You are an effective communicator able to interact with all stakeholders, with strong oral and written communication skills.
• You will investigate software defects and debug software of major scale and complexity
• You will encourage a culture of continuous improvement and have a positive attitude.
• You will report progress to the Test Manager.

 

Experience Required

• 3-4 years of experience in software testing.
• Proficient in both manual and automation testing.
• ISQTB Foundation in Software Testing accreditation, or similar certification.
• Strong background in sprint and system testing within Agile environments.
• Proficiency in Python for writing test scripts.
• Solid understanding of test plan development and execution.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Engineering background or similar educational qualifications preferred.
• Familiarity with defect tracking and test management tools.

What we offer:

 

We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools that are personalised to meet the needs of your reality—to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life.

To find out more ‘’apply’’.

Job Number: YUN-003

Community / Marketing Title: Software Tester

Location_formattedLocationLong: Poole, Dorset GB