Senior Automation Tester
Senior Automation Tester
- Annual Salary: Up to £60k + 29% pension
- Location: Newport Office
- Job Type: Hybrid (Expected to spend at least 20% of the time onsite)
Join our client's innovative team, where they leverage cutting-edge cloud technologies, including AI and ML, to deliver high-quality IT services both nationally and internationally. As a Digital Delivery Senior Automation Tester, you will play a crucial role in developing, improving, and maintaining their systems to meet modern service standards.
Day-to-day of the role:
- Write, execute, and maintain functional and non-functional automated UI and API tests/suites aligned against acceptance criteria to support our continuous deployment environment.
- Design, code, test, maintain, and document robust, scalable, and reusable solutions that deliver an exceptional user experience using DevOps best practices.
- Proactively investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, evaluate and communicate findings and recommendations to stakeholders.
- Work closely with software developers to achieve a common understanding of the code base and ensure adequate test coverage at the unit level.
- Collaborate within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user-focused and successful digital services, ensuring adherence to governance standards.
- Identify and manage defects, incidents, risks, and issues in line with their standards.
- Build automated test solutions from scratch in line with their Test Strategy and their Engineering Principles.
- Contribute to the design, coding, testing, and documentation of small-scale to large, complex, or mission-critical programs.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Significant experience in delivering technical solutions as part of large projects.
- Proficiency with cloud technologies, including Azure.
- Experience in test documentation, such as strategies and approaches.
- Experience in testing front-end and back-end web services.
- Familiarity with Agile delivery models.
- Working knowledge of Azure DevOps.
- Proficiency in Automation tools, including MS Visual Studio with C#, Selenium, BDD, SpecFlow, MSTest, RestSharp, and JavaScript.
- Experience with non-functional test tools including JMeter and Azure Load Test.
- Experience with GitHub and a deep understanding of architectural principles and design patterns.
- Experience in writing SQL statements.
Benefits:
- Unlimited Pluralsight video learning access
- Access to Microsoft’s ESI training suite
- Hybrid working with no core hours
- Substantial support for career progression
- 25 days annual leave moving to 30 days in annual increments
- You will also get 8 days public leave and 1 day privilege leave