QA Automation Engineer – CI/CD & Performance Testing

Methods Business and Digital Technology; Greater London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness program

LinkedIn Learning access

Breakfast Tuesdays

Pizza Thursdays

Pension Salary Exchange scheme

Life Assurance

Private Medical Insurance

Travel Insurance

Time off 25 days a year

Job summary

Methods Business and Digital Technology seeks a QA Engineer to join one of our clients and perform high quality functional and non-functional testing on complex systems. You will work in an Agile environment, focus on automated testing, and continuously improve test coverage and efficiency.

You will collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers, and product stakeholders to understand impacts on end users and provide accurate updates on testing progress and outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience with devising TDD/BDD or Acceptance Test Driven Development strategies using a range of tools/frameworks, ensuring test coverage and execution is in line with the project, programme or portfolio Test Strategy and Business Risk Objectives.
• Strong Java coding experience and knowledge of automated test frameworks e.g. Serenity, RestAssured.
• Strong experience using API testing tools, ideally Postman.
• Strong experience with Selenium, C# SpecFlow, BDD framework.
• Experience with integrating testing as part of the Secure-SDLC and CI/CD tooling in a DevSecOps environment using: GitHub, Jenkins, GitLab SaaS, Artifactory, Nexus etc.
• Experience with testing citizen facing services.
• Experience with testing highly scalable, distributed, cloud native (PaaS/FaaS) and microservice orientated architecture applications leveraging containerisation, container orchestration, service mesh, messaging, proxies, API, persistent and episodic storage etc.
• Experience using formal Test Management tools (Jira/Confluence, ALM).
• Good awareness of Application Lifecycle Management and IT Service Management using tools such as Splunk, Grafana and ServiceNow.
• Must be eligible for SC Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Perform functional and non-functional (performance, accessibility, security, operational/user acceptance) testing, working within an Agile team.
• Develop and maintain test automation solutions and scripts, promoting best practices within the development team
• Develop and maintain performance/load/stress testing solutions using standard or open-source tools
• Resolve problems and blockers as they occur and help unlock the progress of testing
• Collaborate, communicate & work effectively with geographically distributed cross-functional teams
• Defect Management, ensuring that defects are effectively triaged and managed until resolution
• Promote the value of solid testing practices to all delivery stakeholders and influence adoption of best practice

Skills

Java

Serenity

RestAssured

Selenium

BDD

SpecFlow

API testing

Postman

CI/CD

Git

Jenkins

Tools

Postman

Jira

Confluence

ALM

GitHub

Jenkins

GitLab SaaS

Artifactory

Nexus

Job description

Methods Business and Digital Technology seeks a QA Engineer to join one of our clients and perform high quality functional and non-functional testing on complex systems. You will work in an Agile environment, focus on automated testing, and continuously improve test coverage and efficiency.

You will collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers, and product stakeholders to understand impacts on end users and provide accurate updates on testing progress and outcomes.