Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
Posted 3 days ago by eTeam
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The QA Automation Engineer role involves developing and executing automated tests to ensure software quality within an agile project team. The position requires strong programming skills in Java or Python, along with experience in automation frameworks and tools. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with developers and product owners to clarify requirements and enhance testing processes. This is a 6-month contract based in London, UK.
Key Responsibilities:
- Understand design specifications and scenarios, and produce detailed test plans
- Produce high quality automated tests to agreed specifications and deadlines
- Work collaboratively within a project team using agile methodologies
- Participate in sprint planning, sprint demos and retrospectives
- Use and improve Test Automation Frameworks and craft frameworks
- Be the go-to person for coding standards within Ruby or Java
- Work across enterprise and digital applications such as Web, Mobile and Desktop
- Implement leading and Open-Source tooling and best processes (GIT, Jenkins, JIRA, Cucumber)
- Collaborate with developers and business/product owner to clarify requirements, especially in terms of testability and completeness
Key Skills:
- Strong Java/Python programming skills
- Experience in agile, test-driven software development
- Excellent verbal, written communication, and interpersonal skills
- Understanding of automation using Cucumber/Gherkin testing
- Ability to work to tight timescales
- Flexibility and teamwork
- Excellent problem-solving capabilities
- Deep understanding of Software Testing and/or Quality Assurance
- Experience working in Agile (TDD/BDD) environment
- Strong experience in Java or Ruby
- Hands-on experience with Cucumber & Gherkin
- Experience in Automating frontend and backend API testing
- Creating and maintaining the test automation framework
- Experience using Continuous Integration tools (Hudson, Jenkins etc.)
- Experience with version control solutions (GIT, SVN etc.)
- Experience with JIRA – Defect Management and reporting
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Title: QA Automation Engineer
Duration: 6 Months
Location: London, UK
Job Description
Responsibilities of the successful Automation Tester will be:
- Understand design specifications and scenarios, and produce detailed test plans
- Produce high quality automated tests to agreed specifications and deadlines
- Work collaboratively within a project team using agile methodologies
- Participate in sprint planning, sprint demos and retrospectives
Skills:
- Strong Java/Python programming skills - experience and strong ability of agile, test-driven software development.
- Excellent verbal, written communication, and interpersonal skills
- Understanding of automation using Cucumber/ Gherkin testing
- Ability to work to tight timescales
- Must be flexible and work as part of a team
- Excellent problem-solving capabilities with the ability to become expert with the internal software
What you'll do
- Use and improve our Test Automation Frameworks as well as crafting frameworks!
- Be the go-to person for coding standards within Ruby or Java
- Work across enterprise and digital applications such as Web, Mobile and Desktop!
- Implement leading and Open-Source tooling and best processes (GIT, Jenkins, JIRA, Cucumber)
- Work on React and Node JS stack
- Collaborate with developers and business/product owner to clarify requirements, especially in terms of testability and completeness
What you'll bring:
- A deep level understanding of Software Testing and / or Quality Assurance.
- Experience working in Agile (TDD / BDD) environment
- Strong experience in Java or Ruby and Hands-on experience with Cucumber & Gherkin
- Strong experience in Automating frontend and backend API testing
- Creating and maintaining the test automation framework and identifying tests to be automated using BDD
- Experience using Continuous Integration tools (Hudson, Jenkins etc.), version control solutions (GIT, SVN etc.)
- Experience with JIRA – Defect Management and reporting