Financial Services Automation Tester Inside IR35

TieTalent; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks an Automation Tester with a strong background in Financial Services for an exciting hybrid role. This position involves automating a new customer environment and architecting provisioning pipelines. The ideal candidate will possess robust coding skills in Puppet, Ansible, and Python, along with experience in Agile methodologies. Join a collaborative team where your contributions will enhance existing frameworks and support a significant initiative in a dynamic environment. If you're ready to tackle challenges and drive innovation, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Strong coding skills in Puppet, Ansible, Python, and experience with testing pipelines.
• Experience in finance with adherence to change management practices.

Responsibilities

• Automate new customer environments using existing frameworks and build provisioning pipelines.
• Create management dashboards and integrate with existing tools.

Skills

Puppet

Ansible

Python

Cucumber

Gherkin

Git/GitHub

Agile

Change management

Tools

Jira

Confluence

SPLUNK

Visual Studio

Vagrant

Virtual Box

Powershell

Job description

An Automation Tester with Financial Services experience is required for an initial 8 month contract. This is a hybrid role with 3 days per week on site in Sheffield and is inside IR35 so will require working via an FCSA accredited umbrella company.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Very strong coding skills in Puppet, Ansible and Python, as well as exposure to Cucumber, Gherkin, Git/GitHub and other pipelines used for testing purposes.
• Have a good understanding of traditional infrastructure.
• This role will be to automate a new customer environment, using well-defined existing frameworks.
• You will need to be a quick learner to understand the existing environment.
• Architect and build a provisioning pipeline to support the new initiative.
• Creation of management dashboards and integration to existing portal tools will be necessary.
• Adhere to change management processes - Change management automation.
• Sufficiently comment your code during creation to allow for supportability in the future.
• Understand performance implications for your code, and create new code to be as performant as possible.
• Must be able to work as part of a team, and be able to receive and implement enhancements for code you have written from others.
• Ability to work within the Agile frame using Jira.
• Must have experience working in a finance background with adherence to strong change management practices.

Beneficial Additional Skills:

• Exposure to Ruby, Vagrant, Virtual Box, Visual Studio, SPLUNK, Powershell and deconstructing external APIs to present an internal customer API will be useful.
• Understand 'bigger pictures' and code towards a longer-term architecture rather than just for a short-term fix.
• Experience in working in a large enterprise environment with thousands of end-points.
• Create and maintain documentation of the patching architecture.
• Update Confluence and Jira tickets to reflect any changes or updates you make.
• Work within a release schedule, adhering to strict change management rules.
• Must have the 'soft skills' to be able to work in a larger team environment and contribute in team meetings/huddles.