Description
6 month contract. Dublin City Centre. Financial Services industry.
- Support the definition and delivery of automation/Dev-ops test strategies, plans, process improvements and initiatives.
- Able to use REST API to validate API payloads, path definitions, error codes.
- Oversee the creation of comprehensive and well defined test scripts that are traceable back to requirement.
- Lead team of quality engineers throughout the testing process and report progress to Test Manager.
- Oversee Execution of functional and integration test scripts & negative testing and report progress to Test Manager.
- Devise and execute acceptance and security tests for Microservices based on API definitions.
- Participate/Lead defect triage discussions including defect prioritisation.
- Contribute into Test Manager reporting including appropriate test metrics on planning, defects and execution.
- Works closely with the development team.
- Escalate risks and issues to the appropriate level to enable timely mitigation.
- Ensure defects are raised correctly as per the defect management process using defect management tools.
- Support the integration of new infrastructure technology in to existing cloud.
- Develop professional relationships with business stakeholders to understand requirements and explain capabilities.
- Drives Innovation in a field of test automation and DevOps.
Skills/Experience:
- 3+ years of experience with test automation/DevOps.
- Strong familiarity with Microservice architectures and best practices for running in a container orchestration environment.
- Concepts of REST and API's.
- Strong technical experience with open source technologies and infrastructure environments.
- Experience with BDD and supporting systems/languages + Cucumber + Jenkins + SOAP UI + Gherkin with a focus on automation using CI/CD
- Hands-on experience with automation framework design and development.
- Architectural Patterns eg Microservices, Service Oriented Architecture.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and hands-on experience with onshore and offshore team members.
- Strong self-management skills with ability to effectively collaborate with peers and management.