Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Duration: contract to run until 30/09/2026

Location: Main­ly remote odd day in London for workshops

Rate: up to £483 p/d Umbrellainside IR35

Clearance required: SC eligible, 5 years in the UK and less that 28 days outside of the UK

Skilled QA automation Engineer to design, build and execute selenium-based load‑testing scripts to validate PowerBI Fabric capacity and visualisation performance, scalability, and reliability and develop regression test scripts.

The role involves modelling user behaviour at scale, automating test scenarios, and ensuring Fabric‑backed workloads perform optimally under expected and peak usage conditions.

Key Responsibilities

Load Test Script Development

• Develop Selenium WebDriver scripts and test cases that simulate high level user interactions across PowerBI Fabric experiences.
• Build scalable automation flows that mimic report and dataset opening, navigation actions, and refresh events.
• Create parameterised and data‑driven scripts to vary user patterns, concurrency levels, and execution timing.
• Develop regression test script pack.

Performance & Capacity Testing

• Design and execute load, stress and endurance tests specifically targeting PowerBI Fabric capacity limits.
• Capture metrics such as response times, resource consumption, and capacity exhaustion behaviour.

Framework & Tool Integration

• Integrate Selenium tests with performance‑oriented tools such as JMeter.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Skills

• Strong hands‑on experience with Selenium WebDriver and UI automation frameworks.
• Proven experience designing and executing load, stress, and scalability tests.
• Proficiency in one or more automation languages (Python, Java).
• Knowledge of:
  • Distributed workload execution.
  • Multi‑threading and parallelisation concepts.
  • REST API testing and validation.
  • Familiarity with Microsoft PowerBI, Fabric workloads, or similar analytical tools.

Soft Skills

• Strong attention to details and analytical thinking.
• Excellent problem‑solving and debugging skills.
• Clear communicator able to articulate findings to engineering, delivery manager and leadership teams.
• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively in cross‑functional environment.

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