Client Details:
This is an organisation that prides itself on quality solutions, even though they are over 20 years old, they have never missed a deadline. They have an excellent reputation and a highly ethical approach to all projects as a result, they are growing rapidly. In order to succeed, the successful candidate should be “solution” oriented rather than “technologically” oriented. Solutions for their projects are done on the basis as to which technology best suits the need rather than customising a solution that suits the skills they have on board at the time, this does require prospective candidates to enjoy changing technology as needed – the ideal way to keep your skills current with market trends and not to get stuck in a dinosaur tech stack. With an incredibly low-staff turn over, the culture of this organisation is highly cosmopolitan but with a focus on long term relationships. The preference is for permanent employees and in return they’d encourage you to work from home as required and provide a generous flexi-hour structure and the best bonuses in the industry! Typical projects are data orientated, this organisation is focussed on turning data into information. Business Intelligence is a foundation utilising the optimum technology for each purpose.
Role Responsibilities:
- Conducting specification-based, grey box testing.
- Participating in test planning.
- Designing, developing and maintaining test cases from source-to-target maps.
- Investigating data anomalies, raising issues and working with the team to resolve them.
- Maintaining test documentation as required by test team lead.
- Setting up and running automated regression tests in various environments.
- Testing data development and maintenance.
- Identifying opportunities for test improvement.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Relevant tertiary degree
Relevant Skills / Experience:
- A high degree of SQL literacy
- Experience with SQL in high volume data integration / reporting type applications
- A willingness to work in a command-line oriented, textual IDE
- Some experience in software testing
- Experience in the following would be beneficial:
- Scripting languages, such as Perl, Python or PHP
- *nix shell, GNU file processing utilities and editors
- SCM tools such as Git or Subversion
PS Even if you feel you don’t have all the skills listed or if this spec isn’t what you are looking for, feel free to send your CV as we probably have other opportunities that could interest you. For a more comprehensive and updated list of opportunities that we have on offer, do visit our website – [URL Removed]
Desired Skills:
- SQL
- BI
- Testing