Senior Software Engineer in Test (Python/Selenium)

Description

Position: Python - Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Job Duties:

The job holder will have to perform the following duties:

· Provide leadership and consultancy on QA automation discipline, represent QA automation function with stakeholders

· Create/Maintain automated dashboard and report status to stakeholders and take part in daily scrum meeting

· Design/Architect test automation framework and develop new test automation libraries if required

· Implement QA process and automated testing for all the work streams to improve the overall testing cycle

· Go through project boards to evaluate the work to be done

· Designing, writing test automation scripts and execute tests as required

· Using test automation frameworks

· Investigating problems in Test Automation software as a result of testing and working with QA analysts and software developer to find solutions

· Creation of Test Automation CI pipeline in Jenkins

· Provide Knowledge Transfer sessions to enable the software development teams

Candidate Requirements:

· Minimum of five years’ experience in Python Software Development

· Hands on experience on Python and Test Driven Development tooling and principle

· Hands on experience on unittest, pytest or similar

· Proven experience on Git and GitFlow

· Ability to work in a dynamic environment and come up with solutions to meet project needs

· Some experience of Test Automation tools and techniques e.g. Cucumber; Protractor; Gherkin; Restful APIs; Selenium and SQL queries is desirable

· Some experience on systems integrations, architectural patterns and communication protocols is a plus

· Excellent organizational management skills

· Strong communication and inter-personal skills and documentation skills, both technical and non-technical

· Strong consulting skills

· Enthusiastic and self-motivated personality with excellent time management skills and a strong sense of initiative

· Self-development skills to keep up to date with fast-changing trends

· Experience within an agile environment

· Comfortable switching between multiple project contexts