- Closing date 18 Jun 2018
- Type Full-time
- Duration Temporary
About the role
We are looking for a QA Tester with a focus on manual software testing to join a skilled team of developers, QA’s and business analysts to work on a variety of projects in our IT Catalogue systems team. You will join a team of 7 other QA’s compromising both manual testers and automation engineers who work across several project teams.
About IT and QA at Abcam
Abcam is a leading web-based business supplying research tools to life scientists worldwide; and IT plays a vital role in this with numerous innovations across many parts of the organisation. We develop with .Net and also front-end tech including HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Testing is critical to the success of our development; and we work in an Agile environment with Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration.
Roles & responsibilities:
· Work as a member of a cross-functional agile team who focus on delivering quality products
· Design and execute manual test cases to cover new functionality being developed
- Conversant with automation testing and able to complement QA automation engineering effort, working closely with QA automation engineers
- Work closely with product owners and business analysts
- Report and manage defects through to successful resolution
- Work with the DevOps team on releases to production
- Improve the team's quality assurance tools and processes
About you
You will hold a degree in a Computer Science or other numerate degree and have several years’ experience either performing a hands-on software testing role or an agile development role that includes overlap with QA.
You must have a practical understanding of the software development lifecycle and have commercial experience working with Scrum, Kanban or a similar Agile methodology. Working knowledge of JIRA, TeamCity or other continuous integration systems would be very beneficial. Any practical experience with ERP systems and integration suites would be advantageous.
As a QA Tester at Abcam, you will be a strong team player, detail-oriented, thorough and want to be part of a great IT team!
If this sounds like you and you’d like to be a part of a fast-paced, growing business with the vision to become the most influential company and best-loved brand in life sciences please apply now!
About Us
Ever since 1998, when our founder, Jonathan Milner, started selling antibodies from the back of his bike, Abcam has aimed to help scientific researchers make breakthroughs faster. We now have offices and labs in the UK, the US, China and Japan, and as we continue to grow, we remain ambitious, driven by our customers’ success and their research needs.
It’s our goal to provide a world-standard in protein research tools, technical support and delivery. When you join Abcam, you’ll join a global business with the passion and the vision to become the most influential company, and, best-loved brand in life sciences.
Our culture is our key differentiator. We believe in empowering individuals, with responsibility given at an early stage. The working environment is fun and fast-paced, collaborative and outcome focused, with a strong customer focus. In addition to competitive salaries, we can offer an attractive flexible benefits package which includes share options, a culture focussed on wellbeing and opportunities for growth and development.
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