The Software Test Engineer will be expected to possess experience in the manual and automated testing of software developed for Windows with an array of programming languages.  The Software Test Engineer will have the following main duties and responsibilities:

• Involved in the quality assurance stage of software development and deployment.
• Conducting automated and manual tests to ensure that the software created by Developers is fit for purpose. This will also include developing automated test frameworks, build tools and various other activities that relate to promoting and maintaining release quality. 
• Helping to assess and mitigate risks and solve quality challenges.
• Working as part of the software development team.
• Designing processes and methodologies for software testing.
• Liaising with other departments and managing release information.
• Capturing and documenting software requirements and procedures.
• Managing the software deployment process.
• Determining the test cases required to comprehensively test the company’s products.
• Driving all product software testing types (functional, integration, system, regression, performance, unit etc.) using automated and manual testing types.
• Participating in technical reviews, such as code reviews and document reviews.

Education / Experience:

• A Degree qualification in an IT / Engineering / Scientific, or another related discipline, is essential.
• Previous and specific experience in a similar Software Test Engineer type role is essential.
• Applicants must possess an excellent an excellent understanding of the software development process and the client is ideally looking to take on a candidate who has a minimum of 2 years’ worth of experience in a software test environment.
• Experience with Windows development, using Visual Studio .Net (C# and / or VB) and C/C++ programming languages is essential.
• Experience with Windows Forms (Winforms) applications is essential.
• Knowledge of Agile software development processes is essential.
• Knowledge of the software release process is essential.
• Applicants will be expected to be familiar with the capturing and documenting of requirements.
• Experience with source control systems, such as Subversion / Git, is essential.
• Experience with continuous integration / continuous delivery systems is essential.
• An understanding of interfacing techniques and communication protocols would be advantageous.