Domestic & General Hiring for Automation Tester Job at London, England Full Time

Job Summary

The Automation Tester (also known as Test Automation Engineers) design and write programs that run automatic tests on new or existing software within D&G’s technology and digital estate. Key responsibilities of a D&G Automation Tester include:

· Ensuring Products and technology solutions are delivered to quality in line with end-user and/or customer expectations

· Designing and writing test automation scripts

· Using test automation frameworks

· Investigating problems in software

· Working with other testers and software developers to find solutions

Other key aspects of the role include:

· Developing and maintaining professional working relationships, especially within the Product team and with those who interact regularly with the test team

· Focus on the important testing and product priorities as agreed-upon with the Product Owner

· Effectively balance curiosity about tests, test results, and bugs with project constraints on budget and schedule

· Exhibit a demeanour of professional pessimism, i.e., in a pleasant and non-confrontational fashion work with determination to find, document, and advocate the repair of bugs

· Show initiative in setting and meeting goals within an environment of managed change

· Continually learn relevant modern technologies to keep up with and apply them to the job and support D&G teams to adopt them, by becoming the subject matter expert on modern technologies and frameworks.

· Participate in the architecture and design of the area early in the development cycle, influencing it to drive quality and adherence to the specification

· Mentor more junior testers in the team to create a high-performance automated test function.

· Coach developers and software engineers to perform test driven development

· Find innovative uses for test automation software with a view to reducing cycle time of delivery

· Where appropriate Line Manage 1-2 Testers

· Mentor more junior testers in the team to create a high-performance automated test function.

· Coach developers and software engineers to perform test driven development

· Find innovative uses for test automation software with a view to reducing cycle time of delivery

· Where appropriate Line Manage 1-2 Testers

Key Responsibility:

· Review requirements, specifications, user story documentation, help files, and other project documentation to assure quality of the products and tests to be developed, i.e., perform manual static testing.

· Select and develop appropriate test automation tools, applying the latest techniques in test automation, e.g., data-driven testing.

· Use risk-driven techniques to develop, maintain, and execute automated test suites, i.e., perform automated dynamic testing.

· Work with the Engineering team to capture and reuse automated Unit Test Cases, Test Stubs and Drivers, and other Development test objects.

· Work with the Engineering team to create and maintain an automated nightly build verification (“smoke”) tests

· Ensure proper version control and configuration management of all test objects developed and test environments used.

· Develop and executed automated test suites using COTS and custom tools

· Integrate test suites into the test management system and custom test harnesses and,

· Perform other testing-related duties as required

Systems Knowledge

· D&G’s digital products are hosted in AWS and built in Angular

· On-prem IBM platforms like AS/400, RPG and other tools and technologies

· Our test automation suite is based on Selenium with Cucumber BDD Framework

Essential Skills:

· Programming languages, such as C# and Core Java

· Mathematical aptitude and strong problem-solving skills

· Excellent organisational and time management skills

· Teamwork skills because most solutions require input from individuals with separate roles

· Self-development skills to keep up to date with fast-changing trends

· Data design and test data management

· Highly accurate and detail-oriented

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Experience:

· Previous experience as a test automation engineer

· Proficiency in programming languages such as C#, Core Java, Java Script

· Experience in automating tests for in any object orientated language

· Web Service, RESTful API automated testing experience and an understanding of how web apps consume RESTful services

· Experience of build testing frameworks and automated test scripts for AWS integration and data components

· Understanding of databases and able to interrogate them using SQL

· Good understanding of version control systems. Experience in using git; Use of de-bugging tools, ability to analyse stack traces, code, log-files, and other artefacts; Good understanding of CI and experience of using a CI system, ideally Jenkins and AWS code pipeline; Understanding of Service Oriented Architectures; Ability to programmatically interact with data formats that may include XML and JSON

· Understanding of mocks / stubs and experience in building these for automated testing

· Demonstrable knowledge of rolling out a new automated testing framework e.g., using Selenium/WebDriver within an Agile delivery environment

· Demonstrable evidence of working in a multi-tenant environment with multiple clients

· Interested in Big Data

Qualifications:

Ideally a Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software development, or an equivalent numerate degree (maths, physics, etc).

End Date:

28th August 2022

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: From £50,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Work from home

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Reference ID: PB 101