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Automation Test Engineer
| Posting date: | 03 January 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £32,000 to £42,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 February 2025 |
| Location: | M2 3WQ |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | SIFY SOLUTIONS LIMITED |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
The Role:
We are looking for experienced Automation Test Engineers / SDET to work on projects with our clients from both the public and private sectors. You will have a testing background and be confident using your skills to run projects directly with clients with minimal supervision.
You will be a fundamental member of the team, responsible for designing, developing and delivering test solutions whilst supporting and developing other members of the team and fostering best practice, keeping up to date with industry standards and advances.
Responsibilities:
What You’ll Be Doing:
• Overseeing all aspects of developing, implementing, and maintaining automated test scripts using automation tools.
• As part of this role, you'll verify the usability, functionality, performance, and scalability of our and our clients’ applications.
• Constructing automation tools and expanding framework functionalities to accommodate unique team requirements.
• Initiating and establishing processes for automation and performance monitoring.
• Actively contributing to both our Quality Engineering teams and our clients in establishing Automation and Testing best practices for the organisation.
• Collaborating with various teams to address their automation challenges and coordinating efforts with diverse teams to resolve performance test failures.
Must Have Skills and Experience:
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Must have great analytical and troubleshooting skills as well as thrive in a dynamic work environment.
• In depth understanding of QA process and software development life-cycle.
• Proven experience with current front-end testing frameworks.
• Proven 4+ years of experience with the tool Playwright.
• Hands-on experience of building test automation frameworks from scratch.
• Proficiency in scripting and programming languages such as JavaScript and TypeScript (3+years).
• Experience testing web applications across multiple browsers and operating systems including mobile.
• 4+ years of experience of API testing, ideally using Postman or SoapUI.
• 4+ years of experience of BrowserStack
• 2+ years of experience with Evinced tool
• Expertise in establishing and executing testing tools, testing environments, and testing data throughout different stages of the testing process.
• Experience of working closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, and other QA team members, to design, develop and enhance automation frameworks.
Experience in the following tools, technologies, environments (or similar):
• Familiarity with containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes) for testing microservices in a containerised environment.
• Automated API testing with Java (e.g. RestAssured / SoapUI)
• Experience using collaborative tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar for test case management, documentation, and communication within Agile/Scrum teams.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, including experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, or other CI/CD tools for automated testing and deployment.
• Understanding of testing microservices-based applications.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure).
• Understanding of Accessibility testing.
Qualification:
• Any degree.
We are looking for experienced Automation Test Engineers / SDET to work on projects with our clients from both the public and private sectors. You will have a testing background and be confident using your skills to run projects directly with clients with minimal supervision.
You will be a fundamental member of the team, responsible for designing, developing and delivering test solutions whilst supporting and developing other members of the team and fostering best practice, keeping up to date with industry standards and advances.
Responsibilities:
What You’ll Be Doing:
• Overseeing all aspects of developing, implementing, and maintaining automated test scripts using automation tools.
• As part of this role, you'll verify the usability, functionality, performance, and scalability of our and our clients’ applications.
• Constructing automation tools and expanding framework functionalities to accommodate unique team requirements.
• Initiating and establishing processes for automation and performance monitoring.
• Actively contributing to both our Quality Engineering teams and our clients in establishing Automation and Testing best practices for the organisation.
• Collaborating with various teams to address their automation challenges and coordinating efforts with diverse teams to resolve performance test failures.
Must Have Skills and Experience:
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Must have great analytical and troubleshooting skills as well as thrive in a dynamic work environment.
• In depth understanding of QA process and software development life-cycle.
• Proven experience with current front-end testing frameworks.
• Proven 4+ years of experience with the tool Playwright.
• Hands-on experience of building test automation frameworks from scratch.
• Proficiency in scripting and programming languages such as JavaScript and TypeScript (3+years).
• Experience testing web applications across multiple browsers and operating systems including mobile.
• 4+ years of experience of API testing, ideally using Postman or SoapUI.
• 4+ years of experience of BrowserStack
• 2+ years of experience with Evinced tool
• Expertise in establishing and executing testing tools, testing environments, and testing data throughout different stages of the testing process.
• Experience of working closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, and other QA team members, to design, develop and enhance automation frameworks.
Experience in the following tools, technologies, environments (or similar):
• Familiarity with containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes) for testing microservices in a containerised environment.
• Automated API testing with Java (e.g. RestAssured / SoapUI)
• Experience using collaborative tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar for test case management, documentation, and communication within Agile/Scrum teams.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, including experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, or other CI/CD tools for automated testing and deployment.
• Understanding of testing microservices-based applications.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure).
• Understanding of Accessibility testing.
Qualification:
• Any degree.