Senior Software Test Automation Engineer

Job content

• Help to define Test Automation best practice
• Work across all stages of the product lifecycle
• Implement test automation solutions across various platforms and against a large catalogue of products
• Manage and maintain your testing suites using test management tools and test automation frameworks
• Accurately report on test results and communicate well to all stakeholders
• Help to grow the skillset within the testing profession, through mentoring and coaching
  

• Proven experience of implementing and maintaining automated testing
• Proficiency in using coding or scripting languages for test automation
• Demonstrable skills in test analysis, to identify where automation should and should not be used and to plan accordingly
• Experience of using test management tools to accurately record the outcome of testing activities, such as Jira, TM4J, Zephyr or Confluence
• Previous experience of coaching or mentoring others
  

• Experience using a recognised automation framework, e.g. Robot Framework or Cucumber
• Experience of using virtualisation technologies to create and manage reproducible test environments, e.g. VMware
• Familiarity with software version control e.g. SVN or Git
• To be confident in using Windows, Linux and mobile based operating systems, including use of the command line/terminal interfaces
• Understanding of computer networking
• Experience using test tools to aid with automation
• Knowledge of DevOps tools, such as Jenkins, Ansible, Docker or Bamboo
  

• The desire to help to improve testing and automation practices across the business
• The ability to work with others at all seniority levels and be an advocate for automation & testing
• The drive to continuously improve your own knowledge and skills