senior automation test engineer

As a Senior Automation Test Engineer, you will be part of a small to medium-sized team working on a variety of different projects. You will be reporting directly to CTO/QA Lead and will be based within the office based in Swindon. The role will offer you an exciting opportunity to work within a young and expanding company with prospects of working on a variety of different projects.

What you will do

Working closely with the CTO/QA lead to apply the overarching QA strategy

Trialling complex requirements from product owners, developers and business stakeholders

Setup, maintain and enhance test automation frameworks for both mobile and web applications

Provide QA governance to the development teams ensuring appropriate testing coverage is taking place

Maintaining QA automation infrastructure by working closely with the platform engineering team

Report defects in a clear manner and ensured they are triaged according to given SLA’s

Conduct regular pre-release and post-release testing

Reduce regression time by automating test cases

Work with back-end, front-end and platform engineering colleagues

Working closely with the UX/Product team to help them understand user's behaviours

Delivering open forum sessions on topics relating to QA for the wider team

Key responsibilities & duties

Structured test techniques to derive appropriate test coverage and drive efficiency in test

Functional and/or Non-functional testing

Appropriate certification in test methods and practices e.g. ISTQB/ISEB

Understanding appropriate test approaches for various system topologies such as Cloud, client-server, mainframe, event-driven architectures.

Knowledge and experience of End to End software development cycles including:

Experience of working in collaborative and agile teams

Understanding of traditional, waterfall development modes

Production of test evidence and associated artefacts to support quality

Technical expertise including:

Coding ability (e.g. Java, Javascript(jest), Python(pytest,doctest), C#, Typescript) to support the creation and maintenance of automation frameworks

Knowledge of databases and expertise in structured querying to support testing.

Tools such as Selenium, SOAP UI/Ready API, Eggplant, Saucelabs, BrowserStack, JIRA, TFS, GIT, Cucumber

Good verbal and written communication

The ability to consider the business impact of technical changes and make risk assessments

A track record in fault analysis, diagnosis and resolution

Desired Skills

Exposure to: Zephyr, X-ray, API testing (i.e. Soap UI/Postman)

Understanding of Performance Testing, Cross Browser Testing, Usability Testing, Operational Testing

Experience of working with 3rd party systems and organisations

Education & Qualifications

Ideal Candidate should have Bachelor’s/Masters degree in Computer Science, with a minimum of 10+ years’ experience working within the field of Software Testing.