Senior QA Engineer

Senior QA Engineer - C# / Selenium - Salesforce Project - Up to £520 Per Day - 6 Month Contract Remote Working

Overview:
Our client, a leading global consulting partner, is looking for an experienced QA Engineer to work on a large Salesforce integration project. This is an initial 6-month contract which is likely to be extended.

We are looking for a skilled QA Tester with expertise in both manual and automated testing to ensure the quality and reliability of our applications. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in creating automated tests using C#, BDD frameworks, and UI automation tools like Selenium. This role involves closely collaborating with development teams, understanding requirements, and implementing comprehensive testing strategies to deliver high-quality software solutions.

Role & Responsibilities:

1. Develop Test Plans and Strategies: Create comprehensive test plans and strategies for the Salesforce Integration project, ensuring all aspects of the program are covered.
2. Design and Execute Test Cases: Develop and execute detailed test cases to identify and report bugs, glitches, and other issues, ensuring thorough testing of all functionalities.
3. System and Functional Testing: Perform system and functional testing to ensure the solution meets business requirements and acceptance criteria, validating the effectiveness of the integration.
4. Issue Resolution: Collaborate with developers to resolve issues and improve the user experience, ensuring a seamless integration process.
5. Maintain Test Documentation: Keep detailed test documentation and record defect details. Track defects through their lifecycle, from identification to resolution and retesting, ensuring closure.
6. Quality Assurance: Ensure that the software meets the quality criteria established by the program team and end users, maintaining high standards of performance and reliability.
7. Regression Testing: Conduct regression testing to ensure new solutions or updates do not negatively impact existing core processes, maintaining system integrity.
8. Comprehensive Testing: Where applicable, appropriate, and feasible, ensure that testing includes performance, regression, functionality, non-functional, and integration tests, providing a holistic approach to quality assurance.
9. Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using C# and BDD frameworks (e.g., SpecFlow, MSTest).
10. Perform UI automation testing using Selenium or other relevant tools.

Skills required:

1. Proven experience in both manual and automated testing in software development projects with a focus on data integration and migration testing.
2. Strong and demonstrable proficiency (multiyear) in creating automated tests using C# with BDD frameworks like SpecFlow, NUnit, or similar.
3. Hands-on experience in UI automation testing using Selenium.
4. Knowledge of database testing, including writing basic SQL queries.
5. Solid understanding of software testing principles, methodologies, and lifecycle.
6. Knowledge of API testing and familiarity with tools such as Postman or RestAssured.
7. Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and integrating test automation with DevOps practices.
8. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
9. Fundamental knowledge of Azure integration services like Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, API Management, and Service Bus.