My client a large financial consultancy are building a team of automation testers for a large financial client driven project
This role is a 1 year rolling contract hybrid working with 2-3 days per week spent with the team in the Swindon office
Key Results Areas
- Assurance of the quality of new features developed for the product groups
- Software meets or exceeds published metrics and quality benchmarks
- Be a fully engaged member of the Scrum Team or central QA Team
- Mentor and transfer knowledge to more junior QA engineers
- Take responsibility for the effective resolution of issues as they arise either within scrum or central QA team
Key Tasks
- Development of new automated tests that ensure the quality of new feature development covering functional and non-functional tests
- Drive improvements to quality assurance
- Adherence to standards and best practices
- Ensure knowledge is spread across squads and teams
- Work as “one team” to ensure deliveries are on time and to a high quality – becoming “T-shaped”
- Analyse failing tests – triage, then deep dive to surface root cause
- Help identify areas of improvement i.e. Test run times or code effectiveness
Core skills
- Experienced back end testing of Java based systems and applications
- Candidate must be able to review and correct Java code(Junit)
- Commercial experience of testing systems that incorporate microservice architectures and web applications
- Good experience of one or more of the following
- BDD and TDD
- Performance & load testing at unit or component level
- Security testing
- UI & accessibility testing as required
- Data creation and curation
- DevOps practices and principles
- Experience of the following would be beneficial:
- AWS/Azure cloud services
- Junit, Cucumber
- XML/JSON
- Working with large databases (Oracle)
Job Information
Job Reference: DBTest
Salary: £450 - £460 per day + inside IR35 - 3 days remote per week
Salary per: day
Job Duration: 1 year rolling
Job Start Date: ASAP
Job Industries: Testing & Quality Assurance Jobs
Job Locations: Wiltshire
Job Types: Contract
Job Skills: automation test