Technical QA Engineer (Automation) - C#, SQL
Posted 2 days ago by Fuel Recruitment
£700 Per day
Undetermined
Hybrid
Hybrid/London
Summary: The Technical QA Engineer (Automation) role focuses on ensuring high-quality delivery within an Agile development environment. The position involves driving best-practice testing approaches, extending automation coverage, and shaping testing standards. The engineer will collaborate closely with developers, business analysts, and stakeholders to integrate quality from the start of each sprint. This contract role is based in London and offers a competitive daily rate.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define strategies to increase automated test coverage across existing code and integrations.
- Create and maintain automated regression test packs for new and updated software.
- Design functional and non-functional acceptance tests from detailed specifications and acceptance criteria.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, providing QA estimates and contributing to sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives.
- Execute and analyse test results, documenting defects, risks and issues.
- Support integration of automation into the Agile delivery lifecycle and identify continuous improvement opportunities.
- Manage test environments, including merging pull requests and coordinating production change requests.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience designing and developing automation frameworks using C#, SpecFlow/ReqnRoll and TFS.
- SQL proficiency for writing queries and analysing large data sets.
- Experience using BDD tools such as SpecFlow, Cucumber or FitNesse to build robust automation packs.
- Ability to write clear, maintainable Gherkin scenarios and develop supporting step definitions in C#.
- Understanding of when to automate versus when to test manually.
- Proven experience in data-focused testing, including data flow, mapping, and numerical comparison testing.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills within Agile teams.
- Familiar with ALM tools such as TFS, Mingle, Jira or Rally.
Salary (Rate): £700 daily
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Technical QA Engineer (Automation) - C#, SQL - Hybrid/London - Contract - Up to £700PD
Fuel Recruitment is supporting a leading organisation looking for a Technical QA Engineer to join its Agile development function. This role will be central to ensuring high-quality delivery across frequent production releases, working closely with developers, business analysts and stakeholders. You'll help drive best-practice testing approaches, extend automation coverage and make sure quality is built in from the start of each sprint. This is an opportunity to shape testing standards within a fast-moving environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Define strategies to increase automated test coverage across existing code and integrations.
- Create and maintain automated regression test packs for new and updated software.
- Design functional and non-functional acceptance tests from detailed specifications and acceptance criteria.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, providing QA estimates and contributing to sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives.
- Execute and analyse test results, documenting defects, risks and issues.
- Support integration of automation into the Agile delivery lifecycle and identify continuous improvement opportunities.
- Manage test environments, including merging pull requests and coordinating production change requests.
Key Skills & Experience
- Strong experience designing and developing automation frameworks using C#, SpecFlow/ReqnRoll and TFS.
- SQL proficiency for writing queries and analysing large data sets.
- Experience using BDD tools such as SpecFlow, Cucumber or FitNesse to build robust automation packs.
- Ability to write clear, maintainable Gherkin scenarios and develop supporting step definitions in C#.
- Understanding of when to automate versus when to test manually.
- Proven experience in data-focused testing, including data flow, mapping, and numerical comparison testing.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills within Agile teams.
- Familiar with ALM tools such as TFS, Mingle, Jira or Rally.