Automation Test Engineer - Agile, Selenium, Cucumber, TDD

West Sussex  ‐ Onsite
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Description

We are currently working on a Digital Transformation project and are looking for Quality Assurance/Test Engineer to join our team based in Worthing.

As a Quality Assurance/Test Engineer you will:

  • collaborate with Service/Product Managers & business analysts to ensure that user needs for new digital services are fully understood and that user stories contain effective, actionable acceptance criteria
  • identify test cases that are suitable for automation and work with the Agile Test Coordinator, developers and architects to define the approach to automated testing
  • write automated acceptance tests that can be integrated into the software build process
  • organise and perform manual tests when automated approaches are not possible
  • develop test strategies that ensure our digital services function correctly on multiple devices, including desktop, mobile, tablet, games consoles and other commonly used ways of accessing digital services
  • test digital products for compliance with accessibility standards including WCAG 2.0
  • participate in the wider testing community, building relationships with other testing engineers and identifying best practices we can adopt

Essential Skills and Experience:

  • Experience of agile software development and testing methods
  • Experience of automation testing
  • Demonstrable understanding of test driven development approaches
  • Scala code to automate tests using Selenium WebDriver, and rapidly learn other tools & languages as required
  • Proven ability to independently research & communicate new testing technologies or approaches
  • Detail-oriented: able to document and follow detailed instructions within test scripts and defect tracking documents
  • Experience of testing software across multiple web browsers and devices

Desired Skills and Experience:

  • Experience of automated testing tools (eg Jenkins, jUnit, Cucumber, rspec, Selenium)
  • Experience of web testing tools (eg Selenium WebDriver)
  • Experience working as a test automation engineer, software developer, or other appropriate IT background, in an agile project
  • Experience of API programming languages such as JSon

All candidates are subject to the requirements of the Baseline Personnel Security Standard and will be required to provide appropriate documentation to verify ID, nationality, employment and/or academic history and criminal record check (unspent convictions)

Start date
ASAP
Duration
12 months+
(extension possible)
From
Mercator IT Solutions
Published at
22.09.2018
Project ID:
1637238
Contract type
Freelance
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