Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
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Who You Are
The role involves contributing to product delivery by supporting overall testing effort. Communication with the developers, product managers, QA team will be part of your day-to-day activities.
The role involves requirement analysis & refinement, tests creation & execution, bug reporting, documentation of technical processes & procedures, use of standard industry tools.
Alongside the above applying testing standards and principles will enable delivery so ISTQB knowledge and/or certification would be a plus. This role will report to the Head of QA.
What You Will Do
- Defining and establishing automation strategy and process
- Maintaining, developing and executing automation tests
- Constantly evaluating the test automation strategy and approach to identify areas of improvement
- Working closely with product management, development teams to develop a strong understanding of the product and testing objectives
- Leading, coaching and mentoring junior automation engineers
- Substantial personal responsibility and autonomy; planning of own work, to meet given objectives and processes
- The role also includes ensuring highest quality and confidence leading up to product release
Requirements
- Minimum 4 years of experience with software engineering out of which at least 2 years in test automation
- Strong knowledge of test automation tools and related test automation frameworks (such as JUnit, NUnit, TestNG, JMeter, Selenium, etc.)
- Good understanding of software development lifecycle phases and QA processes within it
- Demonstrated experience in one or more programming or scripting languages such as Java, C#, JavaScript
- Strong understanding of OOP principles and engineering practices
- Proficient in collecting test metrics, analyzing results of test execution and creating comprehensive automation summary reports
- Good verbal and written communication in English language
- Strong communication
- Fast learner
- Time management skills
- Sociable, proactive, team player
- Able to adapt to change
The following skills would be a plus:
- Understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Experience with continuous integration tools like Jenkins/Hudson, etc
- Experience with performance/load testing
- Ability to perceive Product Architecture
- Experience with Web Services Rest and SOAP
- Experience with Behavior Driven Development (for e.g. Cucumber, Specflow)
- ISTQB Certification
Benefits
- Competitive salary based on the level of experience
- 24 days’ holiday PLUS all the usual public holidays
- Flexible working hours, with the ability to work from home
- Work with the latest technology paradigms
- Access to education opportunities (books, courses, seminars, conferences)
- Access to Cognism’s Employee Assistance Programme with Health Assured
- Monthly Wellbeing Allowance
- Remote Workouts and Social activities
No visa sponsorship is available for this position