SQA Trainee

 The Division: 
Jonas Gladstone (a division of Constellation Software Inc) is providing innovative Leisure Management Software to customers across the UK and Ireland. At Gladstone, we pride ourselves in understanding and interpreting the leisure industry’s ever-changing needs. We deliver state-of-the-art solutions to leisure centres, trusts and private leisure clubs. 

 
The Position: 
We are looking to hire two Interns/FreshGrads to be members of QA teams, executing tasks as part of the test plans for software development. Contribute to QA activities throughout the entire life cycle of the development process, ensuring an understanding of which tasks are needed to support the development team in the production of new features and resolution of defects so that software is delivered to a high level of quality. Contribute to the development of methodologies in relation to quality assurance and follow these methodologies when executing tasks. 

The selected SQA Trainees would progress from training to apprenticeship, to potentially a full-time permanent employment role in the Contour Software Karachi office. 
 
Key Responsibilities  

• Ensure all code and software is fully tested before being distributed to our customers. 

• Create, review, update, and execute test plans incorporating both positive and negative test scenarios. 

• Work with developers, Product team, and the Support team to ensure all given tasks have completed and delivered accordingly. 

• Generate automated tests to ensure that issues are identified at the earliest opportunity. 

• Use test automation frameworks and toolsets to create complex system test scripts. 

• Execute functional and regression test cases, log and manage test plan execution, and report on progress. 

• Report on defects resulting from test plan execution and inform the relevant development team members. 

• Assist the development team with defect investigation, reproduction, and resolution. 

• Become involved in ad-hoc tasks as required. 

Required Qualification & Experience:  

• Essential: University degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, and/or related discipline. 

• Essential: Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. 

• Essential: A desire to learn new tools quickly and efficiently. 

• Essential: An ability to understand and analyze testing data. 

• Desirable: An ability to understand and create both positive and negative tests. 

• Desirable: Knowledge of Agile methods such as Kanban and Scrum. 

• Essential: Must have good programming/scripting knowledge and skills. Object-Oriented Programming is preferred. 

Suitable for someone who: 

Is passionate about ensuring the best quality software is delivered, have an analytical mind and thinks about different ways to use the system and is willing to ask questions and document the answers in order to understand how the system should work, whilst identifying areas that may not behave as expected.