Job Title
Job Title: Test Automation Engineer
Location
Location: Leeds, hybrid – required to visit the Leeds office 1-2 days per week; travel to other sites may also be necessary. Flexible working arrangements are available; speak to recruiter about options for this role.
Grade
Grade: GG09 – GG10
Referral Bonus
Referral Bonus: 5,000
What you’ll be doing
The role will be embedded within one of our scrum teams, where you'll be creating automated tests to support the ongoing development of products and projects, working alongside developers to influence the design of testable code and with platform engineers to integrate your tests into continuous delivery pipelines. The choice of tools, technologies, and approaches will be wide and varied, and you'll have a chance to influence the direction of automated testing.
- Analyze test requirements, design and produce reusable test scripts, and specify requirements for environments, data and test tools.
- Overcome development obstacles to deliver quality testing on time.
- Review test artefacts produced by peers.
- Review test results and modify the test suite as necessary.
- Define and create test cases from the analysis of non‑functional specifications.
- Design and execute functional and performance test scripts, and security tests.
- Analyze requirements for test automation, design and implement the technical solution regardless of approach; review and assure the scope and execution of unit tests.
- Tests and integration tests performed by software engineers.
- Work closely with other engineers to describe how their work will be, or has been, tested, providing insight into the tester’s interpretation of the requirements.
- Execute session‑based (exploratory) testing where scripted testing is inappropriate or requires augmentation.
Your skills and experiences
- Knowledge of Agile software development.
- Knowledge of at least one automated test tool (preferably Selenium and Cucumber).
- Experience with REST assured.
- Experience testing both UI and large data sets.
- SQL proficiency.
Other desirable skills
- Use of collaboration tools (Atlassian Suite, GitHub, etc.).
- Familiarity with BDD and TDD tools.
- Awareness of accessibility standards.
- AWS experience.
- Kafka experience.
Benefits
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
Division overview
At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Government contracts are an area we have many decades of experience in. Government and key infrastructure networks are critical targets to defend; the effects of these networks being breached can be devastating.
As a member of the Government business unit, you will defend the connected world and ensure the protection of nations. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.
Diversity & Inclusion
Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.
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Job Title: Test Automation Engineer
Location
Location: Leeds, hybrid – required to visit the Leeds office 1-2 days per week; travel to other sites may also be necessary. Flexible working arrangements are available; speak to recruiter about options for this role.
Grade
Grade: GG09 – GG10
Referral Bonus
Referral Bonus: 5,000
What you’ll be doing
The role will be embedded within one of our scrum teams, where you’ll be creating automated tests to support the ongoing development of products and projects, working alongside developers to influence the design of testable code and with platform engineers to integrate your tests into continuous delivery pipelines. The choice of tools, technologies, and approaches will be wide and varied, and you’ll have a chance to influence the direction of automated testing.
- Analyze test requirements, design and produce reusable test scripts, and specify requirements for environments, data and test tools.
- Overcome development obstacles to deliver quality testing on time.
- Review test artefacts produced by peers.
- Review test results and modify the test suite as necessary.
- Define and create test cases from the analysis of non‑functional specifications.
- Design and execute functional and performance test scripts, and security tests.
- Analyze requirements for test automation, design and implement the technical solution regardless of approach; review and assure the scope and execution of unit tests.
- Tests and integration tests performed by software engineers.
- Work closely with other engineers to describe how their work will be, or has been, tested, providing insight into the tester’s interpretation of the requirements.
- Execute session‑based (exploratory) testing where scripted testing is inappropriate or requires augmentation.
Your skills and experiences
- Knowledge of Agile software development.
- Knowledge of at least one automated test tool (preferably Selenium and Cucumber).
- Experience with REST assured.
- Experience testing both UI and large data sets.
- SQL proficiency.
Other desirable skills
- Use of collaboration tools (Atlassian Suite, GitHub, etc.).
- Familiarity with BDD and TDD tools.
- Awareness of accessibility standards.
- AWS experience.
- Kafka experience.
Benefits
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
Division overview
At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Government contracts are an area we have many decades of experience in. Government and key infrastructure networks are critical targets to defend; the effects of these networks being breached can be devastating.
As a member of the Government business unit, you will defend the connected world and ensure the protection of nations. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.
Diversity & Inclusion
Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.
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