Financial Services Automation Tester Inside IR35

Opplæringskontoret for Offshore fag; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Automation Tester with a strong background in Financial Services for a hybrid role based in Sheffield. This position will involve automating customer environments and architecting provisioning pipelines using tools like Puppet, Ansible, and Python. The ideal candidate will thrive in a collaborative Agile environment, contribute to team objectives, and adhere to strict change management processes. With a focus on performance and supportability, this role offers an exciting opportunity to impact a significant project within a large enterprise setting. Join a winning team recognized for excellence in IT recruitment and project solutions.

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 for new initiatives.

Skills

Puppet

Ansible

Python

Cucumber

Gherkin

Git/GitHub

Agile methodology

Change management

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Visual Studio

SPLUNK

Powershell

Vagrant

Virtual Box

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:

1. 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.
2. Have a good understanding of traditional infrastructure.
3. This role will be to automate a new customer environment, using well-defined existing frameworks.
4. You will need to be a quick learner to understand the existing environment.
5. Architect a build a provisioning pipeline to support the new initiative.
6. Creation of management dashboards and integration to existing portal tools will be necessary.
7. Adhere to change management processes - Change management automation.
8. Sufficiently comment your code during creation to allow for supportability in the future.
9. Understand performance implications for your code, and create new code to be as performant as possible.
10. 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.
11. Ability to work within the Agile frame using Jira.
12. Must have experience working in a finance background with adherence to strong change management practices.

Beneficial Additional Skills:

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

LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.