QA Engineer

Job Profile

Job Description

Working as an Automation Test Engineer you will join a Platform team focused on modernising the client’s delivery to our clients through cross-cutting technology grounded in the clients Platform.

As a Test Automation Engineer your job will be to navigate the codebase, identify weak spots and constantly design better and creative ways to break software and identify potential problems. You’ll have a large impact on the quality of a growing suite of products and services.

You will be collaborating with the software engineering team to further improve the quality of the products and keep a mindful eye on how they can be improved.

The specific duties include:

• Work within the software engineering team to ensure requirements are understood, achievable, and tested
• Investigate and debug difficult problems, and help drive them to closure
• Evaluating adequacy and quality assurance standards
• Creating detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases (end-to-end)
• Estimating, prioritising, planning and coordinating testing activities
• Designing, developing and executing automated testing scripts
• Identifying, recording, documenting in detail and tracking identified bugs
• Performing regression testing following the resolution of bugs
• Tracking quality assurance metrics
• Contributing to the creation and maintenance of technical documentation
• Be a vocal proponent for quality in every phase of the development process.

Candidate Specification

We are seeking a dynamic and talented person with solid commercial experience. You will have a degree in computer science or software engineering and related experience in a similar role in web-based software development. You’ll commit to high quality code and be able to pay attention to detail.

Abilities:

The successful candidate must be a team player and effective communicator, confident in their capability, whilst able to recognise areas for development. They should have a natural ability in developing others, nurturing best practice and consciousness in everyone.

Skills & Experience

Skills:

• Good knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Experience in writing comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools and knowledge of BDD test automation frameworks (e.g. Specflow, TestNG)
• Experience with GUI (e.g. Selenium) and API testing
• Preferred programming language C#
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Azure DevOps Pipelines)
• Experience with SOA architectures and micro-services
• Interest in Machine Learning

Experience:

• You should have proven work experience in software quality assurance.
• University Degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Three+ years of experience of software QA and automation testing experience
• Be able to execute automated tests, understand the automation code and prioritize the failures
• Self-motivated with passion for quality
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent knowledge of QA methodologies- writing test plans and test cases
• Experience in cloud computing (e.g., applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms, data)