Senior QA Automation Engineer – TDD, API & CI/CD

Requirements

• Due to the nature of the work/client, you must have or be eligible to gain SC Clearance

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• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, experience working in Agile delivery teams using TDD with Java and be able to work autonomously

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• Experience of PACT frameworks that enable Consumer Driven Contract testing is desirable

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• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and their importance in Automation Testing process

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• Exposure to command line and scripting languages for at least one OS (Windows or Linux)

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• Good coding skills (SOLID, DI, Design Patterns, etc.)

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• Able to unit test the framework built

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• A seasoned QA Automation Engineer

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• Experience and knowledge of API testing and the use of Postman

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• Cypress

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• Docker for running the Cypress container

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• Working with Gitlab for storage of all developed test automation

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• TDD Using Junit

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• SonarQube

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• Jenkins

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• Splunk

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• Gatling

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• Serenity

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• Cucumber

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• Selenium

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• Wiremock

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• Hamcrest

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• AWS Cloudwatch

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• Jira and Confluence

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• (Desirable) Mocks and stubs

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• (Desirable) Advanced Devops knowledge

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• (Desirable) Deep Agile Development knowledge

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• (Desirable) Ability to lead projects and design test strategy

What the job involves

• Our client is leader in providing cutting-edge Technology and they are looking for a QA Automation Engineer to join their Tech team with some experience in BDD, Automation Testing, Agile (Scrum) and scripting

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• Working with the product team to define the acceptance criteria and testing DOD for each story

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• Pairing with the developers to define and review the required tests that will address all features and functions of a product delivery at the unit and component layer

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• Performing exploratory testing at all levels

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• Working with the Product team to define tests throughout the product delivery into live

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• Automating tests where required

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• Working collaboratively with developers to design and test stubs

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• Ensure the team define tests to validate NFR’s at the appropriate level

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• Ensuring traceability is maintained throughout the product delivery

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• Ensuring the team is aware of test progress and quality metrics, and that the team delivers them in a format this is consumable by those who have asked for them

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• Raising the profile of quality throughout the product lifecycle

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• Working in an Agile team, you will be responsible for inputting to the design and build of automated tests to ensure adequate and effective test coverage

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• Provide test assurance of the user stories according to the defined acceptance test criteria; whilst working in a test-first environment

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• Work closely with Software Engineers to deliver the test activities to meet the requirements, whilst contributing to effective agile delivery

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• Able to participate in estimation activities and are encouraged to identify opportunities to maximise test benefit within the team

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• Provide assurance at team retrospectives and planning sessions to ensure test best practice, continual improvements and appropriate standards are adhered to

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