Automation Tester

Automation Tester with Experience in Java and Selenium

Permanent Role

Location- Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield - 2 days travel to office with Hybrid model

Specification:

• Experience as a Automation software tester with a good appreciation of test automation
• Good Experience with Pega
• Passionate about code quality and advocate of clean code principles
• Excellent analysis and problem solving skills with meticulous attention to detail
• Experience with common test automation tools such as Selenium, Cucumber or Serenity, Continuous Integration tools (such as Jenkins, Hudson, Stash, github)
• Experience of testing UI and webservices based systems including end to end and/or in isolation using mocks.
• Experience with very large datasets and appreciation of data isolation in a multi-tenanted SAAS platform.
• Experience with at least one database desirable. Ability to write and maintain SQL insert, update and delete statements
• Experience using test management tools for planning, execution and reporting (eg; JIRA)
• Working knowledge of cloud environments especially AWS and automated infrastructure important.
• Experience working in an Agile SCRUM
• Creation, execution and reporting of performance testing desirable.

Key Responsibilities

• Having a deep understanding of the e2e to end solution and ability to guide and supervise support team.
• Defining and controlling the technical architecture throughout the life of the project.
• Manage technical risks, by identifying and owning them; Create backlog items as technical spikes to de-risk them.
• Work out the non-functional requirements with the Product teams and ensuring they are achievable and subsequently met
• Controlling the technical configuration of the solution
• Utilise technical practices/tools such as TDD, Continuous Integration, Code Analysis Tools, Test automation tools etc.
• Advising on and co-ordinating each team’s technical activities, resolving technical differences in line with the sprint goal.
• Ensuring adherence to appropriate standards of technical best practice
• Managing technical aspects of the transition of the solution into live use
• Advise technical support teams on resolution of live services issues(Incident and Problem Management)
• You will support Service Design team members in developing the overall service solution, help to shape, and define client requirements.
• The Architect will interface with Service Transition, Service Design and Technical Operations teams to ensure service design packages are sufficient to enable Service Transition to commence.

Must have Skills:

• Strong understanding of Relational Database development experience on Oracle and MySQL,
• Good with experience in Java and Selenium
• Strong understanding of Rabbit MQ and IBM MQ
• Strong understanding of CI and DevOps technologies