Description
About GBG
GBG is the leading expert in global identity and location. In an increasingly digital world, GBG helps businesses grow by giving them intelligence to make the best decisions about their customers, when it matters most. Every second, our global data, agile technology, and expert teams, power over 20,000 of the world's best-known organisations to reach and trust their customers.
Why you should be@GBG
Reach
The precision of location data is critical to businesses that need to know exactly where their customers are so they can reduce failed deliveries, share great customer experiences and remove unnecessary costs. We provide the unique insight to know locations as well as the people who live there, because we understand global addresses better than anyone else. This means our customers have confidence that their products and services will arrive in time and to the right location In the race to serve global customers, we exist to help every business in the world, reach every customer in the world.
Trust
When a digital business grows, most customers are genuine. However, many are fraudsters who manipulate identities to gain illegitimate access. We give our customers unique insight to decide which are trustworthy and which are fraudulent, because we understand identity better than anyone else.This means businesses can confidently onboard good customers, reward great customers and reject fraudsters. In the fight against Identity, Fraud, trust is key, so the more you can know and the earlier you know it, the better decisions you can make.
About the team
The team is responsible for providing practical decision support solutions to address business objectives in the areas of risk prevention and fraud detection. We offer state-of-the-art software solutions and provide comprehensive client support using our expertise and flexible, client-focused approach.
The Role
Working closely with and under the guidance of the Software Engineering Manager & QA Lead, the role will be responsible to ensure the delivery of high-quality software by designing and executing effective testing strategies. In addition, you will be collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve defects, automate tests for efficiency, and ensuring that functionality of the system developed in-house is fully tested to meet the high standards of quality expected by the business.
What you will do
As part of an Agile development team:
- Actively participate in a team based agile ceremonies and work closely with software engineers, product owners, architects, and designers.
- Create and review test acceptance criteria for all tasks during sprint planning/ grooming.
- Undertake manual testing activities, documenting test results and create clear and understandable defect reports (using Jira and Xray).
- Create and execute automated test scripts and contribute to the maintenance of automated test suites.
- Assist with the creation, management and execution of test plans for larger feature development activities where needed.
- Identify and manage defects within project with a view of preventing customer facing issues.
- Actively contribute to quality assurance improvements and initiatives.
Requirements
Technical Skills
- Qualification in an IT related discipline
- Experience in automated testing for web-based and API-based software solutions.
- Solid experience in analysing acceptance criteria and creating a thorough and targeted suite of relevant test cases.
- Understanding of TDD or BDD framework (Gherkin language).
- Experience with functional test, and integration test.
- Experience working in an Agile environment and participating in related ceremonies.
- Knowledge of these automated testing tools and technologies would be advantageous: Java, Cucumber, Selenium, Jenkins, SOAP UI, Postman.
- Hands-on experience with non-functional testing such as Performance, Security etc., would be an advantage.
Interpersonal Skills
- Effective communication skills to convey testing strategies, results, and issues to technical and non-technical stakeholders/ scrum team members.
- Gets to the heart of complex issues and problems through clear analytical thinking and effective application of expertise.
- To have a meticulous approach to testing and pay close attention to the details to identify potential defects or issues.
- A demonstrated ability to work as a team within a fast-paced team.
- Flexible, resilient, and able to change focus on demand.
- Self-motivated and enthusiastic.
- Demonstrated ability to learn quickly within a continually changing, challenging environment.
- Ability to prioritise and to work independently, takes ownership of own workload.
- A focus on thorough software quality and documentation, takes pride in high-quality product releases.
Behaviours we'd like to see
Benefits
To find out more
As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing fair opportunities for everyone regardless of age, gender race/ ethnicity, sex, religion, age, nationality, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits. Everybody is welcome and our inclusion and diversity programme, be/yourself, is designed to ensure that you can thrive. Please inform your GBG Talent Attraction Partner if you require any reasonable adjustments to the interview process.To chat with the Talent Attraction team and find out more about our benefits and why we’re a great place to work, drop an email to behired@gbgplc.com and we’ll be in touch.
You can also check out our career site here. Why not apply and make life@GBG work for you?
