Full Description

Job Title: Software Engineer in Test

Location: London, UK

Job Type: Full-time contract, 06 Months

Work Model: Hybrid

Responsibilities of the successful Automation Tester will be

• Understand design specifications and scenarios, and produce detailed test plans

• Produce high quality automated tests to agreed specifications and deadlines

• Work collaboratively within a project team using agile methodologies

• Participate in sprint planning, sprint demos and retrospectives

Skills

• Strong Java/Python programming skills - experience and strong ability of agile, test-driven software development.

• Excellent verbal, written communication, and interpersonal skills

• Understanding of automation using Cucumber/ Gherkin testing

• Ability to work to tight timescales

• Must be flexible and work as part of a team

• Excellent problem-solving capabilities with the ability to become expert with the internal software

Duties

• Use and improve our Test Automation Frameworks as well as crafting frameworks!

• Be the go-to person for coding standards within Ruby or Java

• Work across enterprise and digital applications such as Web, Mobile and Desktop!

• Implement leading and Open-Source tooling and best processes (GIT, Jenkins, JIRA, Cucumber)

• Work on React and Node JS stack

• Collaborate with developers and business/product owner to clarify requirements, especially in terms of testability and completeness

Required

• A deep level understanding of Software Testing and / or Quality Assurance.

• Experience working in Agile (TDD / BDD) environment

• Strong experience in Java or Ruby and Hands-on experience with Cucumber & Gherkin

• Strong experience in Automating frontend and backend API testing

• Creating and maintaining the test automation framework and identifying tests to be automated using BDD

• Experience using Continuous Integration tools (Hudson, Jenkins etc.), version control solutions (GIT, SVN etc.)

• Experience with JIRA – Defect Management and reporting