EIU Forecasting QA Engineer

The Economist is the leading source of analysis on international business and world affairs. We deliver our information through a range of formats, from newspapers and magazines to conferences and electronic services. 

We are looking for a QA Engineer to support the Forecasting team within the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) business unit.

The successful candidate will support the team in:

• manual testing
• automated testing
• maintaining quality standards 

You’ll be supported by a friendly and inclusive team who have the autonomy to define and improve processes and care deeply about developing each other's capabilities.

• You will be responsible for managing and maintaining all manual test activities; include writing test cases/plans, test execution and test execution
• You will be responsible for defect reporting
• You will be responsible for reporting progress of all manual test activities
• You will be responsible for test reporting
• You will help support test automation
• You will help support defining ways to improve testing and quality processes
• You will report into EIUs Principal Quality Engineer

The ideal skills for this role include

• You have at least 3 years of industry experience
• You have experience of boundary value analysis and equivalence partition testing
• You have experience of risk based testing
• You have experience of defect management
• You have experience in test automation
• You have an understanding of the test pyramid
• You have basic programming experience
• You are a solid communicator

Nice to have skills for this role include

• You have basic understanding of cloud infrastructure
• You have basic understanding of how to query relational databases
• You have basic understanding of data lakes