What we're looking for
We are looking for an agile Software Tester (Automation & Functional) who is not afraid of challenges, loves learning, is quality driven and interested in working closely with developers, designers, and the business.
As an agile tester at Tekunda you will be turning our platform into a world class product. You’re going to work in an Agile environment on challenging topics.
A big part of your daily activities will be the functional/manual testing of our platform (salesforce package), APIs layer (Azure functions), backend (Python & Mongo), frontend (React & NextJS), and mobile apps.
What you'll do
- Be positive and solution-oriented with team members and stakeholders
- Understanding, implementing, and updating the Agile Testing Strategy
- Display critical, quality-oriented, skeptical thinking about the product
- Actively acquire information from stakeholders (rather than relying entirely on written specifications)
- Accurately evaluate and report test results, test progress, and product quality
- Designing and developing test automation scripts
- Automation testing across various technologies and product sets
- Work effectively to define testable user stories, especially acceptance criteria, with customer representatives and stakeholders
- Collaborate within the team, working in pairs with programmers and other team members
- Measuring and reporting test coverage across all applicable coverage dimensions
- Recommending & ensuring proper use of testing tools
- Respond to change quickly, including changing, adding, or improving test cases
- Ensuring the appropriate testing tasks are scheduled during release and iteration planning
- Participating proactively in daily standup meetings, story grooming sessions, team retrospectives, suggesting and implementing improvements
- Plan and organize your own work
What you need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
- Demonstrated success testing live software solutions
- 1-5 years experience as an agile tester or related role
- A strong understanding of testing methodologies
- You need to be comfortable testing any part of our stack whether it's backend testing, API test or FE testing
- Experience of working with and testing web API's using tools such like swagger and postman
- Experience in creating and maintaining automated test suites.
- Experience working on applications serving a large amount of customers reliably (50k+ users)
- Excellent problem-solving skills to analyze information appropriately and find best solutions taking a balanced view to reach logical conclusions and make relevant decisions
- Organizational skills to establish efficient and appropriate plans for self and others and adapt quickly and effectively to unexpected changes whilst still ensuring objectives are met
- Ability to work independently and cooperatively with others to achieve a common goal and communicate information in a clear, concise and accurate manner
- Ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially as relates to conveying technical concepts
- Languages: Fluency in English is required
What could be an advantage
- Experience of working in a Continuous Integration and continuous deployment environment
- Some understanding of a programming or scripting language e.g. C#, Python, Java, PowerShell, and experience in creating simple scripts to test applications
- Understanding of browsers and client-side technologies, browser/application server interactions
- Experienced in writing / executing test cases within a micro-services architecture.
- Experience of Azure DevOps
- Knowledge of bug reporting and ALM tools
- Understanding the principles of source control e.g. Git, SVN
- Experience of TDD
- Knowledge of Salesforce
- Experience with traffic debugging tools like Wireshark and Fiddler
Benefits
- You'll be rocking a brand new Company Macbook.
- We offer hybrid working model.
- Get ready to collaborate with teams from all over the world on exciting international projects.
- Stay ahead of the game by having access to the latest advancements in the software industry.
- Join our honest, committed, and positively awesome culture.
- Annual training budget, we're all about personal and professional development. Let us help you grow!
- Looking for a great career? We've got you covered with a friendly team-centric atmosphere.
Why Tekunda?
Full Project Ownership
Are you an inventor? Want to start a new internship program? How about a soccer tournament? Or a whole new department within the company? Whatever it is that you want to do, we’re here to listen, and if your idea is good, we’ll give you all the resources you need to make it happen. When any Tekundian wins, we all win.
Personal and Professional Growth
Tekundians are our most valuable resource, so we make sure to invest heavily in them. All Tekundians are eligible for funding to attend conferences, take courses, present their research, and more. This on top of the continuous mentoring and guidance you’ll receive guarantees you’ll grow as a professional and as a human while at Tekunda.
Making Work Fun
We put our money where your smiles are. Company-sponsored trips, weekly parties, sporting events, and more. We make sure that Tekundians enjoy coming to work by promoting as much fun as we can.
International Work Experience
We are going to take over the world.... Perhaps not quite, but we are a global company that thrives from the interactions between our different offices. Join us to work with colleagues and clients all over the world.