Senior Manual Tester (Beazley)

Company description

Endava is a privately-owned IT services company, with over 15 years of experience of working with some of the world’s leading Finance, Insurance, Telecommunications, Media, Technology, and Retail companies helping them evolve and transform their businesses to meet the needs of today’s and tomorrow’s customers.
We have over 3,000 employees located in offices in North America and Western Europe and delivery centres in Colombia, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania and Serbia.
Along with investing in long term customer relationships, we recognise the importance of providing rewarding and challenging careers for our people and, by doing this, we have established ourselves as the employer of choice for the best and brightest engineers.

About our client – Beazley

Beazley plc is the parent company of specialist insurance businesses with operations in Europe, the US, Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Australia, with three decades of experience in providing clients with the highest standards of underwriting and claims service worldwide.
Beazley is market leader in many of their chosen lines, which include professional indemnity, property, marine, reinsurance, accident and life, and political risks and contingency business.
Beazley is incorporated in the UK and listed on the London Stock Exchange.
https://www.beazley.com/

Beazley – Endava working environment

Beazley is an internationally recognised leader in the field of specialty insurance with an enviously regarded reputation for product and service innovation. They are a globally recognised award winning brand that we are proud to have amongst our customer base. Starting in May 2015 Endava established excellent cooperation and partnership with Beazley by providing comprehensive range of software development, testing and project management services that help Beazley to optimize its testing processes, improve the quality of change into supported underwriting applications and increase the speed of delivery of change. Using Endava expertise and lean processes we have managed significantly to improve user satisfaction levels. We continue to build strong relationship and partnership through delivering excellence and quality. Our core delivery teams are:
•             The Core Testing team – Independent Testing Team that delivers different range of testing services and applies adaptive testing processes on existing or new applications developed by third parties owned by Beazley. We practice adaptive SDLC, that could be Planned Iterative or Agile, depending on the project, the team and the working process.
•             Development team – develop and test applications required by Beazley. The SDLC model is iDesign: http://www.idesign.net/
•             Application Management team –Maintain the existing Beazley applications and platforms.

Role Description

Job responsibilities:

•             Understand the scope of testing within the context of each release/delivery and help define the test strategy in alignment with business goals, functional and non-functional requirements
•             Design, document and execute test scenarios and test cases according to the test strategy
•             Provide leadership in E2E lifecycle to the less senior testers
•             Analyze the testing processes, tools and processes determining areas to improve
•             Play a part in building the Delivery Units’ testing capability & contribute towards the Endava organizations best practices for testing
•             Help creating a Skopje testing community that encourages and facilitates the knowledge and experience sharing between testers

Qualifications

Mandatory skills:

 
•             Good knowledge of the software testing lifecycle
•             Active experience in delivering different types of testing strategies
•             Good background in various types of testing (i.e. Automated, Performance, Security Testing) and a solid understanding of release planning, iteration planning, estimations, prioritization
•             Good understanding of test tools, techniques & life cycles
•             Autonomous, a fast learner, a problem solver, motivated and dependable, with initiative, able to take on responsibility, a team player
•             Able to work in an ad-hoc/dynamic and fast-paced environment with time-sensitive deadlines.
•             Able to understand business processes well
•             Able to lead the testing activity and the testing team
•             Organized and have strong analytical skills
•             Advanced in written and spoken English communication

Desirable skills:

•             Insurance domain knowledge
•             Able to provide technical leadership on less senior testers
•             Familiar with AGILE methodologies
•             ISTQB Certifications