QA Engineer

About the job

• An excellent opportunity to join our Engineering group as a hands-on Quality Assurance Automation Engineer.
• Reporting directly to the Engineering Manager, you contribute to our testing strategy and help enhance our automation coverage.
• You will work as part of a team and be comfortable working across different work streams.

How you will spend your day:

• The Quality Assurance Automation Engineer is responsible for contributing to the testing
• strategy as part of a collaborative and cross functional team.
• The role is responsible for contributing to the quality review of various application suites, which includes creating test plans and strategy, in partnership with the developers, Project Managers, Business Intelligence.
• The QA Automation Engineer will be an advocate for DevOps practices with a strong focus on delivery.
• They will use their experience in previous QA teams to help enhance our testing offering.

Essential Skills and Experience:

Soft Skills:

• Reviews and re-evaluates test strategy to adjust for new information, changing risks, shifting priorities and schedules.
• Demonstrates an aptitude to understand system design.
• Good communications skills with experience in working as part of a team.
• Contributes to formulating QA standards, best practices and processes and strategic plans.
• Proven experience as QA Automation Engineer.

Technical Skills:

• Strong Development skills in python
• Hands on Experience with Agile related methodologies
• Proven Track record of formulating, evolving and executing testing strategies
• Strong testing skills and awareness of best practice industry techniques in relation to
• Performance & Security Testing.
• Ability to create and maintain concise, accurate and accessible technical documentation.
• Exposure to UI Automation tools

Essential Skills:

• Ability to design, document and develop Test plans and Test cases in line with system requirements.
• UI test automation experience using Selenium or similar and understanding of test approached e.g. Page Object Model.
• API test automation experience using Python, C#, Postman or similar
• Previous experience working in an agile software delivery process e.g. Scrum or Kanban
• Experience with source control systems e.g. TFS (Azure Dev Ops), Git
• Good appreciation of software security concepts

Experience with the following is an advantage:

• Familiarity with QA/Test processes in a Cloud Platform
• Proficiency in tools like Git, Azure Dev Ops Build and Release Pipelines
• PAAS and IAAS offerings - App Services, Azure SQL DB, VM Scale Sets
• Automated Regression Testing Frameworks
• Setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM or similar CRMs.
• Continuous Integration Tooling - Jenkins, Azure Dev Ops,
• Experience with Application and API performance and load testing
• Familiarity with technologies used in the customer service industry, CRM, ECM,
• voice systems, chat bots, mobile apps

Our ideal candidate:

• Motivated and enthusiastic - can work on own initiative to conceive and drive initiatives to streamline our QA processes.
• Comfortable with prioritisation and multi-tasking across multiple work streams.