QA Engineering Professional

Why BT?

We’ve always been an organisation with purpose; to use the power of communications to make a better world. You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world’s first telecommunications company. At our heart we’re a technology company with research and innovation in our bones and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - those are the values we live by whilst also creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.

Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale capable of achieving great things. From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe and secure, to delivering large scale technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport.

Today in this fast changing, always on, digital world our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulation and competition we face are tougher than ever before. So if you have the drive, optimism and resilience to help propel us forward we’ll offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things and pursue new careers. If that’s you and what you’re looking for, we’d love you to be part of our future.

Why this job matters

The QA Engineering Professional supports the critical testing activities for a portfolio of products and services, following best practice standards for test quality, resource planning and issue resolution, in alignment to business strategy and requirements.

What You’ll Be Doing

• You keep your knowledge up to date with respect to understanding the main products and services for Openreach. This means you know how they are ordered, how faults are fixed, how multiple products fit together, and understand the field engineer’s role.
• You help with devising and implementing all relevant parts of the test strategy and transformation to make testing better for our customers.
• You help with continuously improving how the team delivers for our customers
• You coach new people in the team to achieve their full potential.
• Collaborating with Networks and OSS Teams to support Continuous Integration Testing.
• Ensuring high quality of deliverables in terms of new functional and regression scenario validations.
  
  

Skills Required

• Software testing experience of 3 yrs minimum, preferably in telecoms, definitely in complex environment
• Experienced in Building and implementing QA automation frameworks on TestNG, Selenium and JS
• Experience with web services technology like XML, REST and SOAP
• Experience in Building and scaling Docker and related containerization solutions
• Devops and Continuous Integration tools Knowledge
• Good functional understanding of Network Elements, Network topologies, Network variants in terms of telecom domain.
  
  

Key Accountabilities

• Undertakes first level diagnostics, diagnosing defects against components using techniques and tools defined in the test strategy, identifies defects against the correct component in multi-component journeys, writes test specifications and test designs (scripts) and runs the test scripts to time cost and quality
• Supports into continuous integration testing to support project deliverables
• Supports the team within its defined area to develop reports on accuracy, quality and errors in test diagnosis against the associated business or customer KPI's
• Executes automation, functional, regression scenarios, applying solutions that validate the functionality of applications
• Supports the maintenance of test suites and ensures high-velocity, high-quality production pushes using manual tests
• Supports the communication of complexities of internal systems to help test against known issues
• Assesses and suggests ways to mitigate risks that have an impact on the quality of products and services
• Supports in the implementation of ways to improve working processes within the area of QA engineering responsibility