Colt provides network, voice and data centre services to thousands of businesses around the world, allowing them to focus on delivering their business goals instead of the underlying infrastructure.

Short Description

Job Title: Network on demand QA Engineer

Function: Digital & Information Office (DIO)

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Set up: Hybrid

Why we need this role

This person is to ensure that the capability we build for our 2 award winning B2B customer-facing Network On Demand applications is of high quality to continue to delight our customers. This involves joining our QA team and working in a fast-moving Agile/Kanban model. This person will have good experience of testing APIs, back-ends and front-ends using a combination of automated and manual testing techniques.

The team is small and nimble, and as a result has made amazing progress in the industry, but as we build new features into our applications we want to make sure we don’t accidentally break something. We work in a business with lots of other applications which are integrated with one-another, so interaction with our peers is key to ensure that our testing is collaborative, effective, and robust.

Sometimes we also have to test the water with new stuff, and so there will be a need to develop spikes/proof-of-concepts to evaluate tools and approaches to ensure the evolution of our testing approach makes best use of new technologies and techniques.

What you will do

Typical tasks and responsibilities will include:

• Understanding requirements
• Designing tests to ensure that requirements are delivered with high quality
• Performing manual testing
• Automating manual tests
• Working with other testing teams across the organisation, as well as those performing end-to-end testing spanning across multiple applications
• Documenting defects through written descriptions, screenshots and video capture
• Triaging defects and working with developers to get them resolved.
• Suggesting and analyzing new techniques and approaches to make testing more efficient and effective.
• Transforming how we think about testing so the team starts testing as soon as we understand the requirement, and not after we have finished writing code

What we're looking for

• Documenting tests
• Automating UI and API testing using a range of tools such as:

• Selenium
• Cypress
• Allure
• Serenity
• Cucumber
• Java and JMeter
• REST Assured
• Scrum tools such as Jira or Azure Dev Ops
• Git/Git Lab
• Defect management tools such as HP Quality Center
• Oracle/SQL

Nice to have (with opportunity to learn on the role):

• Swagger/Open API Specification API definition
• Docker/Kubernetes
• Messaging platforms such as Rabbit MQ
• Microservices
• Node.js/Java Script
• No SQL Databases (Couch DB, Mongo etc)

Skills

Applications System Design
Applications Development
System Maintenance and Enhancement
System Development Life Cycle
Applications Knowledge

Education

A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or closely related field
What we offer:

Colt is a growing business that is investing in its people. We offer skill development, learning pathways and accreditation to help our people perform at their best, regardless of role and location.

In addition to offering competitive salaries and incentive plans, a range of benefits and local rewards packages are offered to staff. Colt recognises the importance of a work life balance.

Some benefit examples are:

• Flexible working and relaxed dress code
• Two days annually to spend on volunteering opportunities
• Access to a virtual business school for on-going learning
• Business mentoring

We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds and identities . We are committed to making Colt an inclusive and supportive workplace