Software Tester

Software Tester (QA)

Chadderton, Oldham

Temp-to-perm

35 hours per week

£12.76 p/h

Winsearch is working with a market leader within the gaming industry to appoint a Software Tester to join them on their new site in the Chadderton area.

As a Software Tester, you will ensure that our games run smoothly and deliver the user a brilliant and exciting experience.

Software Tester

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and performance bonus
• 5% employer pension contributions
• 17 days' holiday (inc. Bank Holidays)
• Paid leave to work on charitable projects
• Access to Reward Hub, a reward platform offering shopping and lifestyle discounts/cashback
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Training, support and career development
• Cycle to work scheme

Software Tester

Key Responsibilities

Preferred Traits, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• A passion and love for Gaming is essential in this role as you will be testing all aspects of our games to ensure that they are meet our requirements.
• Strong working knowledge of testing methodologies, the QA process and the development life-cycle.
• Running functional, performance, usability and compliance tests for UK and International gaming products, and for updates to the platform software.
• Finding and reporting issues on game software being tested in a clear an accurate manner.
• Updating test cases or suggesting new cases when relevant to do so. 
• Completing ad-hoc tasks from requests made to the QA team (e.g., reproducing field issues). 
• Highlighting improvements to our testing and work processes. 
• Providing support to other departments, as needed.
• Completing other testing tasks as assigned by the Test Lead or Senior Tester.  

• Testing of games or gaming products. 
• Running functional, usability and performance tests on different projects. 
• Updating test scripts/plans with additional test cases or creating them from scratch.
• Bug tracking software, and reporting issues in a clear manner. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
• Problem solving/ analytical skills, with great attention to detail. 
• Computer literate, with excellent working knowledge of MS Word and MS Excel. 
• Ability to work on his own with minimum supervision.
• Flexibility, able to complete all manner of different test tasks as needed.
• Ability to learn quickly (product functionality and test tools) and retain knowledge.  

Software Testing

Person:

• Reliable, positive and professional can-do attitude.
• Ability to work in a fast pace, matrix, multi-cultural and changing environment.
• Ability to work under pressure taking full responsibility to meet deadlines.
• Accountable for ensuring accuracy and quality of work.
• To interact well and respect people from all disciplines to accomplish a task or goal.

Winsearch acts as an employment agency for permanent staff. We recruit for roles based in Engineering & Manufacturing, Food & Drinks, Pharmaceutical, Supply Chain & Procurement and Professional Services.

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Our clients and their customers come from diverse backgrounds and so do we. We hire our people from various walks of life, each of whom make our company stronger with their talent, uniqueness, and expertise. This is what makes our company special; if you want to help us grow and take this ethos to our clients, then we cannot wait to collaborate with you!

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