closed vacancy Test Automation Engineer - remote

You will be

• Participating and contributing to requirements, test specifications, architectures, designs and technology stack for products, APIs, subsystems, and components.
• Participating and contributing to planning, estimation, story elaboration, product/design/code reviews, test planning, retrospectives, and release activities.
• Producing well structured, re-usable, robust, scalable, maintainable, and well documented automation test frameworks and test scripts (both manual and automated)
• Running automation and manual exploratory tests.
• Identifying, recording, documenting, and tracking defects
• Performing root cause analysis on failed tests.
• Providing maintenance support for existing tests to ensure prompt rectification of problems.
• Championing and coaching peers in test driven development best practices and best of breed technology.
• Contributing to and supporting the development build, test and release environments, processes, and tools we use.
• Contributing to and participating in continuous improvement activities.

You MUST

• Be able to work in the UK.
• Be ISTQB software foundation certified or equivalent.
• Have 3+ years’experience in software automation testing.

You should be

• Experienced in
  • Web application test and development
  • Automation scripting
  • Automation tests tools like selenium
  • API testing
  • C# and Javascript
  • SQL queries and scripting
  • Risk based test strategies
  • continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) and working in a DevSecOps culture.
• Detail oriented
• A proficient problem solver.
• Articulate and able to communicate at all levels.
• Collaborative by nature and experienced in working as part of a distributed team.
• A self-starter with high drive, determination, and a positive, can-do attitude.

 You would ideally also have (but not mandatory) experience in

• Security, Performance, and load testing
• Test driven Development and Behavior driven development