Automation Test Specialist ((Minerva VAT TxR)

description: Rate £506 SC Active Duration: 6 months Telford with 2 days/week in office Project Overview This project aims to unify RSDD APIs TXR002 and ADE into a single service that will act as the central calculations data provider for all current and future consumers. Both services-TXR002 and ADE-are functionally equivalent but serve different consumers. By consolidating them, the project seeks to reduce service complexity, eliminate confusion, and streamline change management efforts across impacted domains, contributing to overall cost savings. To address this, a proof of concept (POC) was developed using: SAS Enterprise Guide for table creation, SAS Studio V and SAS RTENG to build the SA registration network, SAS Viya 3.5 tools for risk assessment of new SA registrations. The POC leveraged data from 20 different sources, most of which were already housed in the Minerva Oracle database. Previously, some data had to be transferred manually. However, the automated file transfers described in this Solution Design Document (SDD) will now move that data to the SAS platform using approved Enterprise Architecture (EA) integration patterns, with the initial phase, targeted for delivery in April 2026. This role will form part of a new scrum team within Minerva Platform to develop and deliver the Ingestion and Risking within the SAS Platform including IDP. We are seeking a skilled and proactive Test Automation Specialist to join our core build delivery team. This role will be instrumental in designing, developing, and maintaining automated test frameworks and pipelines to support the deployment and validation of analytics solutions on the SAS Viya 4 platform.

Key Responsibilities Working as part of an Agile team participate in ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning, retrospectives, demos and reporting. Utilise strong Stakeholder Management and communication skills to collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers, and Business Analysts to ensure test coverage aligns with business requirements and technical specifications Ensure that appropriate automation tooling is implemented and utilised to meet business and technical needs. Design and implement automation test strategies and plans for SAS Viya 4 applications, for UI based Visual Analytics (VA) and Intelligent Decisioning (ID), as well as for integration testing of data pipelines. Develop and maintain test scripts using appropriate automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, PyTest, JUnit) and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines. Confirm the test data strategy to be used Maintain and evolve the test automation suite to support regression, performance, and integration testing. Support the integration of test automation into Git-based CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI). Troubleshoot and resolve issues in test environments, including SAS Viya containerized deployments (e.g., OpenShift, Kubernetes). Contribute to test data management and environment provisioning strategies