Senior Automation Test Analyst - 6 month contract

Dublin  ‐ Onsite
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Description

  • Work with a very reputable organisation
  • 6 month contract - City west location (on Luas line)
  • Interviewing quickly

The Senior Automation Test Analyst is responsible for designing, developing, and executing automation tests in a custom development environment in line with agreed plans and strategies. As a senior member of a highly collaborative, dynamic, Agile test team, the Senior Automation Test Analyst will provide strategy, mentoring, leadership and direction to other team members, as well as ensuring the quality of the team's output is of a consistently high standard.

The Role

  • Document and execute high quality automated test plans for functional areas under custom development and test using Selenium, Cucumber, QTP and other automation frameworks
  • Analyse complex requirements and review acceptance criteria to ensure they are for fit for purpose, testable and can have automated tests developed to explicitly test and guide acceptance
  • Create comprehensive and well defined automation test scripts that are traceable back to requirements
  • Execution of functional, regression and integration automation test scripts
  • Lead/participate in defect triage discussions and challenge development perception of severity
  • Co-ordination of test activities and work as part of a scrum team
  • Interrogate the underlying databases to extract test data and execute SQL statements to aid testing and prove test results
  • Develop and execute technical tests to prove the load and performance of the solution
  • Contribute to management reporting including appropriate test metrics on planning, defects and execution.
  • Ensure regression testing is performed in a manner that recognizes the risks of introducing defects into the environment
  • Work closely with the development teams to provide information and direction to junior team members

Required Skills/Experience

  • 5+ years software test experience is a custom application development environment
  • Experience of testing across the full software development life cycle (to include Waterfall and Agile methods)
  • Excellent SQL and database interrogation skills
  • Demonstrable capability to plan, develop and deliver test automation using Selenium, cucumber and HP QTP toolsets on significant custom development projects
  • Proven exposure to test management systems such as JIRA, Quality Centre
  • Exposure to and experience of test automation within an enterprise application development team
  • Excellent oral and written communications; an ability to present and discuss technical information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others, and gains understanding

Desirable skills

  • ISTQB certification
  • Worked in Agile/scrum environments
  • General Insurance knowledge and previous product testing
  • Experience of Oracle 10g/11g

Get in touch with Karen Deignan or Apply now with your CV AND Cover Letter

Start date
n.a
From
CPL Solutions
Published at
28.03.2015
Project ID:
876345
Contract type
Freelance
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