Openshift /Kafka Test Engineer – Banking Client

OpenShift/Kafka Test Engineer – Banking Client – London

Duration: 12 months

Rate: 500 – 500 per day

Inside of IR35 – Umbrella needed

Hybrid working

We are looking for a forward thinking, self-motivated Technical Test Engineer to join the team.

The Release & Test Orchestration Squad are a transversal team who support the Tribe with a range of activities across Functional & Non-Functional testing, Test Automation, Environment Management and Release Management. As part of this, the team cover infrastructure and technical projects which required technical analysis and testing.

The role will focus on technical testing on infra projects, contributing to the environment needs of technical/infrastructure projects as well as carrying out hands on test execution. The role will span our transformation program where we are moving from legacy application so to OpenShift/Kafka based micro services and our legacy applications.

What you will be doing:

• Contribute to Infrastructure projects, define Technical Test requirements and feed into Test strategies
• Hands on test execution, both manual and automated testing, reporting progress and status
• Contribute to environment infrastructure set up and the creation of supporting documentation
• Contribute to the x-platform test environment preparation (build/refresh), ensuring it is progressing according to plan and escalating issues accordingly
• Contribute to the environment impact assessment of infrastructure changes e.g. security patches
• Provides guidance on ensuring requested environment(s) are correctly setup and ready on time to start the testing stages described in the HLTS
• Escalates risks, issues concerns to the Scrum Master as required
• Interfaces with relevant stakeholders (Hotline teams, Technical Teams, Business) for environment impact assessment & problem resolution

What you will bring:

• Technology: HP Non-Stop, Linux, UNIX, OpenShift, Kafka, Java, C#, SQL, CICD
• Tools: UFT, Azure Dev Ops, Splunk, Cucumber, Selenium
• Experience: 5+ years hands on testing, finance industry experience, BDD/TDD, Agile, infrastructure projects experience
• Soft Skills: Open minded, forward thinking, strong proven stakeholder management, Engineering mindset

*Rates depend on experience and client requirements