The Company 

HooYu is an innovative global identity verification product that uses the latest social, biometric and image processing technologies to solve the problem of knowing who you are dealing with online whether they are next door or on the other side of the world.

The Position

This role is focused on assisting the technical team in maintaining a high level of system quality in terms of errors, bugs, reliability and performance, as well as supporting the enforcement of compliance with company test policy, technical and procedural standards.

The successful candidate will have primary responsibility for the development, maintenance and operation of QA test automation, and for training less experienced QA personnel in that activity. The candidate will also assist in driving effective Quality Assurance (QA) for the technical systems and processes that support the company’s product development and delivery.

This is a hands-on role with future leadership potential that will involve the testing processes to be followed for all phases of the system development and release lifecycle, as well as assisting in operational process monitoring and enforcement in close cooperation with the Compliance team. QA responsibilities will include testing of systems before and after live promotion, to understand specifications, writing documents, creating manual test scripts, and delivery of all test activities throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC). The nature of the product delivery platforms involved dictate that all QA testers be comfortable with both automated and manual test activities.

Principle responsibilities:

• Design, development and maintenance of test cases and automation, working closely with the Team Lead, other QA team members, the Product Team and the Compliance Team
• Assisting in the requirements definition, selection and deployment of test automation tools
• Performing hands-on QA activities to improve QA productivity
• Assisting in ongoing automated and manual testing from development to live environment.
• Assist with Quality Assurance policy, process and methodology development, implementation and execution.
• Participating in software requirements definition and planning processes to assist in defining QA related tasks.
• Assist in raising and documenting defects, writing test cases, test plans.
• Compliance with company standards and processes, and assisting in the monitoring and enforcement of same.

Required skills and knowledge:

• Educated to degree level; ideally an IT or computing degree or the equivalent experience.
• At least two years experience with test automation technologies like Selenium/Webdriver (preferred) or with one or more scripting or programming languages (preferably VB or javascript) in a test automation context
• Experience in creating, executing and maintaining test cases
• Experience with QA tools and processes within an Agile-based development environment
• Strong manual testing skills, with understanding of Regression, Smoke, Exploratory, adhoc testing
• Understanding of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and STLC (Software test life cycle) standard processes and industry best practices
• Understanding of iterative nature of regression testing using both manual and automation testing
• Understanding of different test levels and approaches from component to acceptance testing and the related entry and exit criteria for each phase
• Good working knowledge of Word, Excel, Visio, Project, Access and PowerPoint
• Looking at root cause of defects and providing detailed steps to replicate

Desired skills/experience:

• Experience setting up Eclipse to be configured with Selenium Webdriver
• Experience in testing web / mobile based application
• Experience with web application development
• Knowledge of OWASP secure coding standard
• Experience working in an ISO 27001 certified development environment
• ISEB foundation certification will be advantageous.

Personal skills and qualities:

• Strong analytical, diagnostic and creative problem-solving skills and meticulous in handling production systems
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills
• Assertive, high energy, self-motivated with strong team spirit
• Ability to work independently with little supervision as well as ability to work effectively as team members and with members of other operational teams
• Excellent writing, communication and time management skills
• Good time management skills and meeting tight deadlines

We believe in equal opportunities

It takes a diverse community of passionate, talented and committed people to build a simpler, more
secure way of proving identity. We’re an equal opportunity employer, so we welcome applications from
people of all backgrounds, with different outlooks and experiences.

If you wish to apply for this role, please send your CV to careers@hooyu.com.