The Software Automation Tester will work within a multi-disciplined Agile software development team. A flexible team member for producing software deliverables with a high level of quality, as defined by the Technical Architects, and following best coding practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Experience in creating, maintaining, and executing automated and manual test scripts.
• Responsible for test planning and leading execution of the test plan
• Actively participate in planning activities and provide test efforts against the work required to be carried out.
• Responsible for producing test collateral and gaining sign-off from the appropriate parties/individuals/business areas
• Review the project plan and ensure any risks and issues are communicated to the project.

Essential Skills

• Good understanding of Agile methods, software testing principles and ALM tooling (Azure, DevOps, GitHub, etc).
• Understanding of software development life cycles and software testing principles.
• Test Automation Frameworks - Cucumber (or similar) for BDD, Selenium or Protractor, Cucumber (or similar) for automated web testing.
• Ability to design/build automated testing frameworks and test tooling.
• Knowledge of software code development – clean coding principles.
• Experience reading and writing clean Java code, whilst working closely with Developers
• Experience with Jenkins, GitHub, or equivalent, for CI/CD
• API Testing (with REST, Postman, or equivalent)