Data Migration Tester (Security Cleared) in South West London, London

Data Migration Tester (Security Cleared)
3 Months initial contract
Hybrid - 2 Days per week in South-west London
£535 per day (Inside IR35)

To be submitted for this role the candidate must hold current SC Clearance and be a British National

The selected candidate MUST HAVE some knowledge of Salesforce and ideally some experience using Provar (Testing tool).

Skills
Define, together with the Product Owner, the acceptance criteria at both the story and the system level
Write end to end tests (manually) proving the system works, and define test cases based on the test scenarios
Test newly developed software, existing software upgrades and deployments to ensure quality is maintained; including manual testing (exploratory, negative and black box) as well as utilising a variety of test tools to enhance testing efficiency, identify vulnerable areas of the software and raise, prioritise and track defect reports through to conclusion
Understand the design and the implementation details and assess the affected areas and risk areas that the implementation can introduce
Perform Sanity, Regression testing in an agile environment with continuous integration and deployment of new releases
Write detailed defect descriptions and work with developers to prioritise and assign bugs depending on the business impact and severity on timelines to test and go live
Experience testing API and UI functionality in a commercial environment
Able to use initiative and work within an agile framework within sprints or work effectively in a waterfall environment
Ability to execute testing tasks independently, yet work collaboratively within the team on major decisions and respond to high-level guidance & support
Create a culture of transparency, ownership, collaboration, accountability and quality
Work cross-functionally with various stakeholders including release managers, test leads, and other suppliers and stakeholders.
Good communications skills and ability to articulate the impact of defects to non-technical stakeholders
Be an advocate of Quality Assurance, Continuous Improvement and industry recognised Best Practices.
Work closely with Product Owners and developers to agree test cases and their acceptance criteria.
Passion for great technology and user experience

Qualifications, Experience & Skills
Educated to degree level or equivalent
ISTQB Foundation (or higher) or equivalent
Experience of a wide range of SLDC methodologies, including Waterfall, Agile Scrum, Kanban, behavioural-driven development (BDD), and continuous integration
Excellent apolitical and problem-solving skills
Understanding of automated testing and release processes
Experience of translating business requirements into legible, complete, executable test cases
Experience of creating and executing test cases with relevant focus and context (System Test, Integration Test, UAT etc)
Experience of testing Business Processes
Experience of testing APIs
Experience with using test and defect management tools (JIRA, HPALM etc)
Experience of using test tools such as cucumber, postman, gatling etc

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.