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15 January 2009 by Rod McLaren
Update: this opportunity is closed now, thanks.
Mobbu designs, develops and delivers mobile and internet data services, principally for police forces and the public safety and security sector.
We plan, design and build mobile/backend systems for customers like Airwave and G4S. We also create and sell our own mobile software products for the same sector, the first of which is now successfully rolling out at UK police forces.
Our consulting and product development businesses are growing, driven by our public sector domain expertise, our product design and development knowledge, and your skills as a QA/tester.
About the role
We’re looking for a talented, motivated software QA/tester who will take responsibility for the quality of our software products and projects.
The role is based in our new office in the heart of Brighton’s mobile community. We want to hire for it as soon as possible.
In this role you will be required to support the development team working as QA on a variety of internet and mobile application development projects developed in .Net/ASP.NET (web) and .Net Compact Framework/Blackberry (mobile) technologies.
We want you to be involved up-front with internal and customer product owners. Defining and documenting requirements (user stories) and writing test cases from business requirements. You will need to be involved with our development team, ensuring that what is released is of sufficient quality and passes critical regression testing.
About You
You are smart, you can get things done, and you can communicate. You’re great at finding those critical edge cases in systems, at breaking those systems, and you’re even better at explaining why they need fixing. You keep the developers sharp, and you’re all about attention to detail.
You understand acceptance, integration and performance testing, and will have good ideas about how to improve our testing methods and those of our customers. You keep up with new work in your field and participate in communities of practice online and elsewhere. You’re comfortable being customer-facing and will sometimes run acceptance testing on a customer’s premises.
Experience of mobile application testing, automated functional testing, load or performance testing and testing an agile (Scrum) environment will be useful.
You are a UK resident and passport holder: we’re going to have to get you security-cleared for some of our work.
Mobbu and technology
Our technology choices are pragmatic – we develop using the technology set appropriate for the product and the customer’s environment. In our past projects someone in your role might need to:
- Take a customer requirements document with very little useful information and extract meaningful user stories and test cases.
- Produce a critical regression test pack for each software release. Possibly and where appropriate producing automated tests from this regression pack.
- Work with the development team to deploy and configure a software release and run the relevant test cases and/or critical regression test pack.
- Produce a customer-facing functional specification document.
We are an Agile/Scrum-oriented company and we favour running software developed by talented, well-organised developers. The successful candidate will be a very important member of the Mobbu team, responsible for the technical and architectural leadership of the MFO product.
If this role sounds interesting, please contact us at hello (at) mobbu.com; no phone calls, please.
(PS: If you’re not a tester… we’re looking for a Java developer too!)
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