Automation QA Engineer

Group GTI; Wallingford; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Wallingford is seeking an Automation QA Engineer to enhance their platform supporting students' employability skills. You will work in an Agile team, focusing on automated testing, ensuring high-quality software solutions. Ideal candidates possess strong experience in automated testing tools and Agile methodologies. This is a hybrid position offering a permanent contract and a collaborative work culture.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with automated testing tools like Cypress and Selenium.
• Proven experience as a QA Engineer in both manual and automated testing.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment.

Responsibilities

• Work within a cross-functional Agile Squad to deliver Product roadmap value.
• Support product quality by contributing to acceptance criteria.
• Identify and manage technical debt and propose solutions.

Skills

Automated testing tools

Agile QA best practice

Excellent communication skills in English

CI/CD tools & automation

Growth and outcomes mindset

Critical attention to detail

Education

UK BSc in Computer Science

Tools

Cypress

Selenium

Jenkins

GitLab

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Automation QA Engineer

Department: Tech

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Wallingford, UK - Hybrid

Description

Role mission

To build a major new platform for students that helps hundreds of thousands of students develop their employability skills and find opportunities.

Why it’s exciting

Through a love of tech, we help students, educators and employers. You’ll work on a web platform as a key person in an enthusiastic dev and product team. You'll form part of the Tribe pushing tech boundaries. While the Tribe is working on the latest in dev technologies, our DevOps Tribe is supporting a shift to Kubernetes and AWS, something you could help us shape.

Who this role might suit

We’re looking for a QA Engineer with good experience of full stack web application testing; The right candidate will be able to demonstrate a good understanding of Agile QA best practice, automated testing suites, and working in a collaborative self-organising squad.

Outcomes

We have Agile Squads that deliver product value

• Work within a cross-functional Agile Squad to deliver Product roadmap value
• Support the squad by carrying out collaborative manual exploratory testing
• Support product quality by contributing to acceptance criteria
• Maintain and expand our automated pipeline using best of breed tooling
• Perform peer reviews and maintain documentation needed by internal stakeholders
• Work closely with rest of the development team to ensure high quality solutions

We identify and manage non-functional technical work

• Identify technical debt and propose practical solutions to resolve
• Measure and improve software performance and accessibility
• Understand developer security responsibilities and identify issues

We continually improve our way of working and follow best practice

• Add value to the wider technical team by sharing experience, learnings, and skills
• Identify and share areas for continual improvement
• Stay up to date with the latest tools and frameworks using allocated personal development time

Technologies you’ll be using:

• Cypress: JavaScript
• Cucumber/Gherkin
• Automated testing tools
• CI/CD Pipelines
• BrowserStack
• Snagit
• Git
• GitLab
• Jira
• Confluence
• K6/ JMeter

Work Experience, Knowledge & Skills

• A UK BSc in Computer Science or related subject
• Extensive experience with automated testing tools (Cypress, Selenium, Cucumber, Postman)
• Experience in using GenAI in test Automation e.g. GitHub Copilot or equivalent
• Excellent communication skills in English
• Proven experience as a QA Engineer in both manual and automated testing
• Experience working in an Agile development environment
• Experience in CI/CD tools & automation e.g, Jenkins/GitLab/similar DevOps tooling
• Knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Experience with testing accessibility and performance
• Experience with testing APIs

Competencies required for the Role:

• Growth and outcomes mindset
• Team player with excellent communication skills
• Critical attention to detail and high level of accuracy
• Passion for promoting and mentoring QA craftsmanship
• Proactive, adaptable and a quick learner
• Professional, focused, conscientious, efficient, with excellent time management skills
• Trustworthy, courageous, and respectful of the contributions of others

Other Information

• Permanent role 37.5 hours per week.
• 3-month probationary period.

Candidates applying for roles at GTI will be subject to background screening. You can find out more about our background screening and the recruitment of ex-offenders by reading our policies.

If you would like to speak to a member of our team to find out more information about this vacancy or you have any questions, please get in touch - [e-mail].