Descriere
Task description:
- Be flexible to work across Technologies such as C#, Java and to have a willingness to learn new skills
- Be an evangelist for all things QA Automated related by advising and recommending QA and Testing best practice at company and project level across the full Delivery Lifeycyle
- Support the definition of Test Automation Frameworks
- Work closely with Product Owner’s and developers to agree test cases and their acceptance criteria
- Experience of contributing to the automation strategy within the wider Test strategy, approach and execution for both manual and automated testing on development initiatives
- Strong technical skills and automation testing
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment
- Proven track record of leading, directing and mentoring QA teams and team members
- Track record of building comprehensive test automation frameworks from scratch
- Experience in high level test automation design and implementation, including unit, end-to-end, regression and load testing scenarios
- In depth coding and framework experience, with languages such as Java, .NET, Python, etc
- A sound knowledge of market leading test automation tools, such as Cucumber, SOAtest, SoapUI, Selenium WebDriver, etc
- Back-end test automation experience testing APIs, Microservices and Cloud solutions
- DevOps and Continuous Integration experience (CI/CD) using market leading tools such as Jenkins, Maven, Git etc
- High level knowledge of technical architecture relating to distributed and critical systems
Requirements:
- ISTQB (or equivalent) Certification
- Minimum 3 years experience in defining and leading Automation Framework definition and implementation
- Hands-on experience in Automation script development using Tosca
- 3+ years of experience programming in Java and C# languages
- Experience developing test automation for web UI’s using Selenium and SpecFlow
- Experience developing API-level test automation for RESTful services
- Experience with the Agile/Scrum development lifecycle in a commercial/production environment
- Industry experience with defect management systems and workflows
- Responsible for designing and implementing Automation Frameworks and CI Pipelines across various platforms.
- Good experience in BDD and TDD
- Experience of testing UI’s, Services and API’s
- Demonstrable experience of writing SQL scripts for data extraction and validation purposes.
- Expertise in Jira, X-Ray and Confluence
- Knowledge of API / web services testing tools, such as SOAPUI
- Knowledge of Scrum, Agile is essential.
- Hands on experience Continuous Integration tools
- Self-motivated and able to coach/mentor/inspire others in Automation best practice
- Experience with a range of technologies – including Microservices and API
- NoSQL databases (ideally PostgressSQL, InterSystems Caché
- Kubernetes and Docker based container platforms (ideally Openshift)
- Hadoop based data platform and ecosystem (ideally Cloudera)
- Realational databases in OLTP and data warehousing enviroments
