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Senior Test Analyst / QA Engineer, Job in Bedfordshire UK I found this position on Monster.co.uk . Thought it would be useful for my readers whom have completed ISEB ISTQB and are looking for work. You can apply here We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer / Test Analyst with experience of designing, developing and executing test plans in an Agile environment for a market leader and expanding software solutions company in Bedford, Bedfordshire. Any experience of Jira, Wiki and/or Zephyr would be ideal but not essential.   As the successful Senior Test Analyst / QA Engineer you will be responsible for designing, developing and executing test plans as well as providing team and technical leadership across an Agile environment involving solution design, test planning, functional testing, defect management and process improvements.   As a Senior QA Engineer / Test Analyst you are likely to understand client server and web based applications as well as expo...

Test Engineer (Financial Services) - City of London - up to £45,000 A highly respected international software house operating in the Financial Services industry sector has a new opportunity for a Test Engineer to join their growing team. The Test Engineer will assist in developing, implementing and adapting test plans and schedules. Working closely with the Test Lead to understand test goals, risks and priorities, the successful candidate will help contribute ideas on testing standards, and processes. Solid skills in all or most of the following areas is essential: • Following test plans and schedules in undertaking test analysis, design and execution • Ability to seek out critical defects • Logging defects and issues and regularly reporting on progress to the test lead • Prioritising personal work load - Identifying and showing awareness of risks • Agile, Waterfall and V-Model methodologies • Contributing to test planning and risk workshops Domain experien...

Software Testing in Agile Development The latest evolution in software development process is agile. It's the philosophy adhering to Agile Manifesto or its core principles. The agile manifesto does not say about any particular methodology or process which should be followed to be called as agile. Rather it's the definition or end goal of your process. It defines agile but doesn't say what or how to be agile. So different organizations or individuals advocate different ways of agile development. In general it's an evolutionary approach of continuous, iterative and incremental integration of code where all the stake holders, i.e. Developer, QA and business (or customer) work very closely producing a very qualitative product in a short development life cycle. One of the most popular agile methodologies is Test Driven Development (TDD). In TDD greater importance is given to white box testing than black box testing (in my personal opinion both white box and black b...