About Us

We are Scrumconnect, an award-winning, agile-first, software consulting firm based out of London. 

We take pride in delivering Human-Centric Solutions with a Tech-First Approach. Over the years, we have cultivated a community of talented, thoughtful, and hardworking individuals from the UK and around the world, all dedicated to placing the end user at the center of our solutions.

Scrumconnect is a software consulting firm located in London that prioritizes the agile methodology in its approach to delivering solutions. We are committed to creating solutions that are centered around human needs while leveraging the power of technology. Our team consists of highly skilled professionals who are not only talented but also thoughtful and hardworking. We have attracted individuals from the United Kingdom and different parts of the world who share our dedication to placing the end user at the heart of everything we do.

At Scrumconnect, we firmly believe in the power of collaboration, continuous learning, and adapting to change. By combining our expertise with agile methodologies, we strive to exceed expectations and provide exceptional software consulting services to our clients.

• Impacted over 50 million people with our transformative solutions.
• Delivered over 64 services and 20% of top 75 govt services, solving complex challenges across various agencies.
• Saved over £24 million for taxpayers through our efficient and innovative solutions.

Why Join us?

Scrumconnect has ambitious goals for the future. We are dedicated to creating opportunities and driving economic growth. Over the next five years, our aim is to generate 750 new jobs, contributing to the development of the workforce and fostering innovation within the software consulting industry.

At Scrumconnect, we prioritize certain values that guide our work and interactions:


•Openness: We foster transparency, open communication, and collaboration to build trust among team members and clients.

•Integrity: We adhere to the highest ethical standards, ensuring honesty, fairness, and accountability in our relationships with clients, employees, and stakeholders.

•Excellence: We strive for exceptional quality by embracing best practices, staying updated with industry trends, and providing innovative solutions.

At Scrumconnect, we value our employees. We offer a competitive salary, flexible working hours, opportunities for career progression, and the chance to work on exciting projects that make a real difference to the UK public sector.

Scrumconnect Consulting is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

If you share our values and are passionate about making a difference in the software consulting field, we invite you to join us.

To apply, please submit your CV and a brief cover letter outlining your experience and suitability for the role.

Job Details

Automation Tester/Quality Assurance Tester

Contract

London, UK

Key Responsibilities:

There is an extensive scope of testing and many areas have not yet been automated and some will never be fully automated because of the need for human evaluation (eg some aspects of accessibility and usability)The current test process is highly reliant on ad-hoc and exploratory testing

Automation of regression testing

Within each team there is a drive to increase the amount of test automation and our staff are instrumental in the transition to an increased reliance and improving coverage of the functionality tested by code.The future state of testing will be a full suite of tests which are triggered by code merge or release into certain environments passing quality gates which are represented by a set pass rate for certain automated tests being executed.

Technology stack

The solution is comprised of a large number of Java microservices utilising a number of complimentary technologies including:

  • Azure
  • Kubernetes
  • PostgreSQL
  • Angular UI
  • Docmosis

Responsibilities

  • Write test automation scripts within our API and Serenity test frameworks IN Linux/UNIX environment
  • Use your experience to design and manually test user stories and defect fixes
  • Raise defects using JIRA, providing an assessment on severity/priority and detailing sufficient evidence so that they can be reproduced
  • Use your knowledge of SQL to interrogate data for test data creation and to validate test results.
  • Work within the scrum team to complete stories within the sprint.
  • Provide demonstrations of the testing to business product owners and other stakeholders

Essential requirements

  • 5-7 years of experience in testing/test-automation using open-source tools frameworks (eg, Selenium-WebDriver, JUnit/TestNG)
  • Experience of end-to-end development and testing for a large-scale programme/project delivery/software development environment using complex integrated applications architectures including Java
  • Knowledge on RESTassured & Protractor
  • Comfortable with independently handling the test activities on a project.
  • Experience in test automation, using open-source tools/frameworks
  • Demonstrable experience of modern development practices - including Continuous Integration and infrastructure code tools including debugging issues, monitoring, alerting, log aggregation and Test-Driven Development (TDD)/BDD
  • Experience of working as part of an agile/scrum/Kanban team; knowledge of Agile development methodology
  • Experience of delivering and conducting Quality Assurance throughout the delivery life cycle
  • Experience of being able to perform a Root Cause Analysis of Live features and identify potential bottlenecks in the application by reviewing application logs
  • Experienced in the use of GIT/Gerrit
  • MANDATORY Experience from CPP
  • Moonlighting job is refrained

Contract duration: 6 months  (Outside IR35)
Rate : £350 - 400/Day

Apply now

Max file size 10MB.
Uploading...
fileuploaded.jpg
Upload failed. Max size for files is 10 MB.
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.