Financial Services Automation Tester Inside IR35

Oof; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Automation Tester with a strong background in Financial Services. This exciting role involves automating customer environments and building provisioning pipelines while adhering to strict change management practices. You'll work in a hybrid setting, allowing flexibility while collaborating with a dynamic team. The ideal candidate will possess strong coding skills in Puppet, Ansible, and Python, and will thrive in an Agile environment. If you're passionate about technology and eager to contribute to innovative projects, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Automate a new customer environment using existing frameworks.
• Architect and build a provisioning pipeline to support new initiatives.

Skills

Puppet

Ansible

Python

Cucumber

Gherkin

Git/GitHub

Agile methodologies

Change management

Tools

Jira

Confluence

SPLUNK

Virtual Box

Visual Studio

Job description

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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 API's 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.

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

IT System Testing and Evaluation