Do you love to learn and share with a team who will rely on you and your attention to detail to discover information, risks and issues to ensure we continue to deliver the service our customers trust and expect from us? Are you passionate about testing?

Skills and experience

Essential



Test design skills supported by strong lateral and critical thinking skills



Ability to document testing at all levels to meet contractual needs, whilst maintaining operational pragmatism for their own work



Demonstrable knowledge of relevant HMG security standards, control objectives and best practice controls from NCSC



Understanding of security risks when developing products and the ability to identify risks for potential testing



Experience of using active listening skills and questioning test requirements and designs to improve team understanding of tasks



Appreciation of agile principles and experience of working as a tester in Kanban, SCRUM or similar contexts



Experience of testing in a Linux (CentOS / RedHat) environment, ideally virtualized/cloud-based (e.g. Amazon EC2)



Desirable



Passionate about self-improvement, active blogger on software testing and/ or involvement in the testing community



Experience testing video conferencing or similar collaboration tools



Exposure to development techniques such as TDD, code reviews and pairing



Able to identify and potentially create bespoke tooling for Exploratory testing activities



Exposure to infrastructure automation tools such as Docker and Vagrant



Responsibilities