Senior Test Engineer - Government Commercial Agency - SEO

Location

Birmingham, Liverpool, Newport (Gwent)

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Available Locations

Liverpool, Newport, Norwich, Glasgow or Birmingham.

The following locations listed below are restricted to contracted GCA staff already based in one of these offices:

London, Bristol, Manchester or York.

External applicants are not eligible for these sites. If you select one of these locations as an external applicant your application will unfortunately be withdrawn.

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Do you want to be part of a forward thinking Digital team? Would you like to work on diverse projects that will provide opportunities to expand Agile, Devops and Automation experience? Would you like to be part of our digital transformation journey?

Job description

Job Summary

We are looking for a dynamic, self motivated individual who can work independently. The Senior Test Engineer is accountable for identifying the functional and non-functional testing requirements. They will develop reusable automation frameworks that support a range of testing activities; they will execute both automated and manual testing, and undertake risk and issue reporting. The Senior Test Engineer will contribute to the wider organisational quality testing strategy and the implementation of new testing tools and technologies.

Key Accountabilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify functional and non-functional quality characteristics for testing.
• Identify the most appropriate quality testing approaches and test types to ensure comprehensive coverage; functional, regression, integration, security, usability and non-functional.
• manage stakeholder requirements and communications remaining focused on user needs.
• contribute, escalate and advise on the resolution of defects and risks, managing stakeholder expectations.

• Work collaboratively within Agile Scrum delivery teams, contributing to Sprint ceremonies, and the creation of robust and comprehensive test coverage.
• Contribute to the wider organisational quality testing strategy.

• develop, standardise and extend reusable automation frameworks that support a range of testing activities.
• contribute to the implementation of new testing tools and technologies.
• maintain and adapt CI/CD pipelines

Person specification

Essential Criteria (to be assessed at application stage):

• Demonstrable experience as a Test Engineer across a number of programmes, including all test stages and test types.
• Strong communication, stakeholder & people management skills, with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.
• Demonstrable experience of creating and managing automated testing frameworks, utilising continuous integration/deployment pipeline environments, using tools such as Jenkins, Github, AWS, Browserstack.
• Use of Object Oriented Programming such as Java or Ruby to create and execute automated tests, and automation tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber BDD, Junit/TestNG, Maven, Playwright.
• Experience testing the integration of micro services and APIs using tools such as Postman, REST Assured.