Automation Engineer Back

THE ROLE

As part of an on-going partnership with a leading financial organization, Test Perform are looking to hire an experience Test Automation Engineer with experience of working in a CI/CD environment. This is an excellent opportunity to work across some high-profile projects in a highly technical environment.

• Perform automation testing
• Confirm the testing requirements and what tests are needed to prove business/project goals have been reached.
• At sprint planning, sign off that all work in the sprint is testable and that a plan exists for setting those test cases up
• During the sprint, help the testing team support dev activity
• Co-ordinate and write new automated test cases
• Ensure that test cases written by the testing team meet quality standards
• After the sprint, guiding exploratory testing on the resulting deployable increment
• Update test reporting on test status for the product
• Supporting testing activity in higher environments (SIT, UAT and a variety of Pre-Prod areas)

SKILLS

• Strong understanding of test automation and how it fits into a Bamboo/jenkins build. Expert in setting up data for Test automation, running system components and extracting and testing results.
• Strong experience working in CI/CD environment and managing the output. Working knowledge of Gherkins, bamboo/Jenkins, GIT repo etc
• Understands difference between Product-centric testing and Project-centric testing. Ability to exhibit that operational system meets requirements and being able to demonstrate that to the PM and POs.
• A seasoned Quality Engineer who understands all the different types of testing, when they’re applicable, what’s needed for each type, and knows what sorts of tests to execute in each activity.
• Working knowledge of BDD with Cucumber and ruby scripting with Watir Web driver and test management tools like ALM, JIRA. Device Automation using Appium
• A flexible team player who understands Agile testing principles and contribute towards Quality, and even more, is willing to speak out and suggest different testing approaches
• Strong experience working in Agile environment participating in sprint planning. Finalising goals the team working towards.