Job Description:

QA Engineer is responsible for championing the day-to-day QA activities required within an Engineering team. This includes driving test analysis, the creation, maintenance, and execution of automated test suites, and performing manual exploratory testing of new releases and bug fixes where required.

The QA Engineer is responsible for promoting a quality focus within their team and helping to drive a culture of continuous improvement in quality and automation, aligned with customer’s QA Strategy. 

You will work in close collaboration with Software Engineers and Cloud Automation Engineers throughout the development cycle to ensure that quality is instilled as early as possible and carried throughout every release.  You help to ensure that the products and services Our customer builds meet the functional requirements and perform to internal and customer expectations.

You understand that test automation is crucial to enabling teams to work more effectively, reduce impediments, and enables them to get feedback faster.  It enables engineers to focus more on exploratory testing and improvements, without being weighed down by manually running the same set of regression tests over and over.

Responsibilities:

• Create, maintain, and execute automated tests to support agile software development and in line with the automation strategy.
• Run exploratory and usability tests using a range of test tooling.
• Analyze upcoming work to create appropriate testing plans.
• Promote an automation-first and quality-driven development mindset across the teams.

Essentials:

• Experience with open-source test automation tools (for example, JUnit, Pact, Cucumber, etc.); building automated functional regression test suites.
• Experience of test automation in programming languages Python and Java (optional)
• Experience in testing APIs, REST & SOAP Web services.
• Experience with Postman, Hopscotch or similar API testing tools.
• Strong communication skills, both spoken and written – to talk about your work with both technical and non-technical people.
• Working experience in Agile development teams and understanding of development processes and concepts.
• Experience with development collaboration and tracking tools such as Jira, Confluence.
• Able to manage your own time and handle multi-task delivery, working to short timescales.

Desirables:

• Experience of test automation in scripting languages (Python, TypeScript).
• Experience in BDD test approaches.
• Knowledge of ETL and Data Warehouses.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Good knowledge of CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or similar.
• Experience of load and performance testing (for example, using JMeter, Gatling, etc.).