About the team
The team are working within an Agile, SAFe development environment. The team is made up of Developer engineers, QA Assurance Analysts, and a Product owner. As a Quality Assurance Analyst, you will be primarily responsible for automation testing, as well as hands on functional testing on the EFOS orchestration layer. You will be working with your agile team to deliver products and change requests of the highest quality whilst proactively identifying improvements and enhancements on the platform and to the overall testing processes.
What you will be doing
- You will be designing and planning test strategies for projects and applications.
- You will be undertaking planning activities for agile deliveries.
- You will create automated tests to enhance the existing test suite.
- You will support and maintain the test automation framework with respect to implementation of new features, existing features, and bug fixes.
- You will be analyzing requirements and user stories to derive automated test cases, adding to the test suite using Selenium.
- You will be executing tests thoroughly to ensure software quality, running automated tests, and identifying defects.
- You will be actively contributing to process improvement initiatives and enhancements to current procedures including recommending quality improvements.
- You will be working with project teams to resolve any issues in a timely manner whilst keeping relevant stakeholders informed of progress and challenges.
What you will need
- Previous experience of working as a Quality Assurance Automation Engineer.
- Experience within an agile development environment.
- Experience of writing test automation in Java.
- Ability to refactor code to reduce complexity.
- Knowledge of software testing procedures and be skilled in test planning, test estimation, prioritization, and risk-based testing.
- Practical experience of agile testing methodologies - BDD, TDD etc.
- Making decisions, often with limited information and communicating these to others within the team.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience and knowledge in working with AWS cloud technologies.
Added bonus if you have.
- Experience with API testing and microservices testing.
- Experience of writing tests using Karate.
- Experience with Continuous Delivery, Jenkins, Nexus or other similar tools.
- Proficiency in quality management methods, tools and technologies.
- A background with financial services industry practices, regulations and processes.