Senior QA Tester

Summary: The Senior QA Tester role requires a highly skilled individual focused on automation testing, with expertise in creating automation pipelines and performance testing. The position is hybrid, requiring one day on-site every two weeks in various UK cities. Candidates with active SC clearance will have an advantage. The role emphasizes both functional and non-functional testing, particularly in TDD and BDD environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• SDET/QA Engineers (with coding skills)
• Focus on automation over manual testing and create automation pipelines
• Conduct functional and non-functional automation testing
• Work in TDD & BDD environments
• Perform performance testing, ideally using Gatling
• Conduct UI and API testing
• Test data migration, with a secondary focus on performance testing
• Implement contract testing using Pact
• Execute integration testing with automated tests in Kotlin
• Perform UI component testing using Playwright with Typescript
• Conduct end-to-end testing using Playwright with Typescript
• Manage integrations and cross-system state changes from legacy to modern systems
• Develop testing strategies

Key Skills:

• Expertise in automation testing
• Strong coding skills
• Experience with performance testing
• Familiarity with Gatling
• Proficient in UI and API testing
• Knowledge of data migration testing
• Experience with contract testing (Pact)
• Proficient in Kotlin for integration testing
• Experience with Playwright and Typescript for UI component and E2E testing
• Ability to manage integrations and data flow between legacy and modern systems
• Strategic testing experience

Salary (Rate): £459 daily

City: London

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Senior QA Tester

£459 P/D Inside IR35

Hybrid, 1 day on site every 2 weeks in Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, London

Active SC would be advantageous (Eligibility)

Requirements:

• SDET/QA Engineers (with coding skills)
• They should predominantly focus on automation over manual testing and need to be highly skilled at creating automation pipelines
• Experience with functional and non-functional automation testing is required
• Comfortable working in both TDD & BDD environments

Role Specific Requirements:

• Expert at performance testing
• Ideally Performance testing in Gatling
• UI and API
• Data Savvy - They will be testing a Data Migration, although this will be second priority over Perf Test
• Contract Testing - Pact
• Integration Testing - Automated tests in Kotlin.
• UI component Testing - Playwright with Typescript
• E2E - Playwright with Typescript
• Experience with integrations and cross-system state changes. Legacy to modern - data passing back and forth.
• Strategy experience