Senior Automation Tester
*Annual Salary: Up to £60k + 29% pension
*Location: Newport Office
*Job Type: Hybrid (Expected to spend at least 20% of the time onsite)
Join our client’s innovative team, where they leverage cutting-edge cloud technologies, including AI and ML, to deliver high-quality IT services both nationally and internationally. As a Digital Delivery Senior Automation Tester, you will play a crucial role in developing, improving, and maintaining their systems to meet modern service standards.
Day-to-day of the role:
*Write, execute, and maintain functional and non-functional automated UI and API tests/suites aligned against acceptance criteria to support our continuous deployment environment.
*Design, code, test, maintain, and document robust, scalable, and reusable solutions that deliver an exceptional user experience using DevOps best practices.
*Proactively investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, evaluate and communicate findings and recommendations to stakeholders.
*Work closely with software developers to achieve a common understanding of the code base and ensure adequate test coverage at the unit level.
*Collaborate within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user-focused and successful digital services, ensuring adherence to governance standards.
*Identify and manage defects, incidents, risks, and issues in line with their standards.
*Build automated test solutions from scratch in line with their Test Strategy and their Engineering Principles.
*Contribute to the design, coding, testing, and documentation of small-scale to large, complex, or mission-critical programs.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
*Significant experience in delivering technical solutions as part of large projects.
*Proficiency with cloud technologies, including Azure.
*Experience in test documentation, such as strategies and approaches.
*Experience in testing front-end and back-end web services.
*Familiarity with Agile delivery models.
*Working knowledge of Azure DevOps.
*Proficiency in Automation tools, including MS Visual Studio with C#, Selenium, BDD, SpecFlow, MSTest, RestSharp, and JavaScript.
*Experience with non-functional test tools including JMeter and Azure Load Test.
*Experience with GitHub and a deep understanding of architectural principles and design patterns.
*Experience in writing SQL statements.
Benefits:
*Unlimited Pluralsight video learning access
*Access to Microsoft’s ESI training suite
*Hybrid working with no core hours
*Substantial support for career progression
*25 days annual leave moving to 30 days in annual increments
*You will also get 8 days public leave and 1 day privilege leave