Quality Automation Specialist

Join us as a Quality Automation Specialist

• In this key role, you’ll be undertaking and enabling automated testing activities in all delivery models
• We’ll look to you to support teams to develop quality solutions and enable continuous integration and assurance of defect free deployment of customer value
• You’ll be working closely with feature teams and a variety of stakeholders, giving you great exposure to professional development opportunities

• This job does not meet Skilled Worker visa sponsorship requirements

Joining us in a highly collaborative role, you’ll be contributing to the transformation of testing using quality processes, tools, and methodologies, significantly improving control, accuracy and integrity. You’ll make sure repeatable, constant and consistent quality is built into all phases of the idea to value lifecycle at reduced cost or reduced time to market. It’s a chance to work with colleagues at multiple levels, and with cross-domain, domain, platform and feature teams, to build in quality as an integral part of all activities.

Additionally, you’ll be:

• Supporting the design of automation test strategies, aligned to business or programme goals
• Evolving more predictive and intelligent testing approaches, based on automation and innovative testing products and solutions
• Collaborating to refine the scope of manual and automated testing required, the creation of automated test scripts, user documentation and artefacts
• Designing and creating a low maintenance suite of stable, re-usable automated tests, which are usable both within the product or domain and across domains and systems in an end-to-end capacity
• Applying testing and delivery standards by understanding the product development lifecycle along with mandatory, regulatory and compliance requirements

We’re looking for someone with foundational knowledge of Java, Python or similar, learned through coursework, online training, or personal projects.  You'll have excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to management level colleagues along with good collaboration and stakeholder management skills.

Additionally you'll have completed or will be working towards a recognized testing qualification such as ISTQB Foundation, or equivalent training in software testing fundamentals.

We'll also look for you to demonstrate:

• An understanding of automated testing principles and common frameworks such as Selenium, Rest Assured, Junit and TestNG
• Exposure to BDD/TDD practices, with familiarity using tools such as Cucumber, or similar
• Basic understanding of API testing concepts and use of tools such as Postman, Bruno or REST clients
• Knowledge of JSON and XML formats, including how to read and validate them when testing API responses and requests
• An awareness of CI/CD pipelines and how automated tests fit into software delivery workflows
• Knowledge of Git or other version control systems through academic work or personal projects

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