Senior Automation Tester / SDET

Our client is leader in providing cutting-edge Technology and they are looking for a Senior SDET to join their Tech team with stong experience in Java coding (OOP, SOLID). Building automation platforms and frameworks.

From a technology perspective, the key skills for the role are:

• RESTAssured,
• API Testing
• Contract Testing - Nice to have
• Pact framework - Nice to have
• OOP
• Java
• Integration Testing
• SQL, RDBMS
• Gradle,
• Git
• Spring - Nice to have

Must have SC clearance! (NPPV3 is preferrable)

Experience and Skills

+ A minimum of 5 years relevant experience as an SDET

+ Strong experience of OOP and SOLID

+ Unit testing with Junit

+ Experience and knowledge of API testing with coded framworks and Postman for debug and exploratory testing.

+ Strong experience with Gitlab and Git

+ SonarQube

+ Jenkins

+ Cucumber - TDD / BDD

+ Wiremock - Nice to have

+ Jira and Confluence

This role will include but is not limited to:

• Working with the product team to define the acceptance criteria and testing DOD for each story
• 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
• Performing exploratory testing at all levels
• Working with the Product team to define tests throughout the product delivery into live
• Automating tests for all phases.
• Working collaboratively with developers to design and test stubs
• Ensure the team define tests to validate NFR's at the appropriate level
• Ensuring traceability is maintained throughout the product delivery
• 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.
• Raising the profile of quality throughout the product lifecycle
• 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
• Provide test assurance of the user stories according to the defined acceptance test criteria; whilst working in a test-first environment.
• Work closely with Software Engineers to deliver the test activities to meet the requirements, whilst contributing to effective agile delivery.
• Able to participate in estimation activities and are encouraged to identify opportunities to maximise test benefit within the team.
• 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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