Who is Cambridge Intelligence?
We’re a team of data visualization experts. We help organizations to make an intelligent visual analysis of their data to ‘join the dots’ within it and uncover hidden threats.
Using our data visualization toolkits, it’s quick and easy to build powerful data visualization applications, roll them into analysts’ tools and workflows, and deploy them anywhere in the world.
What’s the role about?
This is a collaborative role and you will focus on maintaining and improving the high standard of our product offerings. You’ll engage with the entire development team to make improvements and build quality into the product.
Test planning and architecture
- Analyzing features under test, from early design stage through to delivery
- Assisting in refining and understanding requirements, giving feedback early and often
- Working in an agile environment in collaboration with other test engineers
- Defining tests and test coverage, with assistance from the team
Testing activities
- Testing complex user interfaces and JavaScript SDK features
- Creating test charters, defining the scope of testing for the feature or product under test
- Testing features and products, raising any defects/issues in a detailed reproducible way
- Signing-off features in consultation with the wider development team and product owner
- Signing off features
- Release testing (patch, minor and major releases)
Communication
- Collaborating on and reviewing feature scope documents
- Reporting test results, browser/platform coverage and defects/issues
- Keeping the product owner and development team informed of testing status, and highlighting any areas of risk
Who’s the ideal candidate?
You’ll have experience of manual testing in a development team, using agile processes. As a tester, you see it as your responsibility to share insights in a constructive manner, so as to help developers constantly improve. Like most testers, you’ll have an innate desire to break things, but when you sign off a feature it means it can’t be broken. You’ll enjoy taking a high-level view of a product in order to understand requirements and ensure that they are being met.
Skills
- Testing web applications and/or SDKs
- Platform testing
- Exploratory testing
- Defining acceptance tests
- Understanding of web technologies
- Analytical skills and creative thinking
Straight to the front of the line
- Knowledge of test frameworks
- Performance testing
- An awareness of the latest and upcoming browser releases
- An understanding of JavaScript
How can you grow the role?
- Opportunity to introduce automation testing in collaboration with your team