QA Tester

Methods; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension Salary Exchange with 4%?employ

Discretionary Company Bonus

Life Assurance 4x base salary

Private Medical Insurance (spouse &amp

Worldwide Travel Insurance

LinkedIn Learning access

24/7 Employee assistance programme

Breakfast Tuesdays / Pizza Thursdays

25 days annual leave

Discount platform

Job summary

Methods is seeking a QA Engineer to join client projects and deliver high-quality functional and non-functional testing across complex systems.

You will drive automation improvements and collaborate with developers, DevOps and stakeholders to ensure reliable outcomes, within an Agile, fast-paced environment. Eligible for SC Clearance is a stated requirement in some client programs.

Qualifications

• Experience in functional and non-functional testing across complex systems.
• Proactive in improving automated tests and test frameworks.
• Ability to work with developers, DevOps and business stakeholders in Agile environments.
• Strong API, UI and integration test coverage using modern tools.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and test automation leadership.

Responsibilities

• Perform functional and non-functional testing (performance, accessibility, security, operational) in an Agile team
• Develop and maintain test automation and performance/load testing scripts
• Collaborate with distributed teams and stakeholders to track testing progress and outcomes
• Defect triage and management to ensure timely resolution
• Promote solid testing practices and adoption of best practices across delivery teams

Skills

QA engineering

Automation

CI/CD

Agile

Performance testing

Security testing

API testing

Selenium

Playwright

Postman

Education

ISEB Certification in Software Testing

Tools

Jira

Confluence

ALM

Splunk

Grafana

ServiceNow

GitHub

Jenkins

GitLab

Artifactory/Nexus

Job description

• As a QA Engineer you will be expected to work at one of our clients and perform high quality functional and non-functional testing on complex systems
• You will be proactive and always look for ways to improve the automated tests to make them more efficient
• You can work closely with developers, devops engineers and business stakeholders (operations, incident management and product management) to understand the positive and negative impact software can have on end users and provide accurate updates on the progress and outcomes of testing
• 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 to 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

Benefits

• Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
• Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
• Strong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership
• A supportive and collaborative environment
• Development access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme and training
• Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme
• Social - Breakfast Tuesdays, Pizza Thursday monthly, weekly social in the office and commitment to charitable causes
• Time off 25 days a year
• Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
• Discretionary Company Bonus based on company and individual performance
• Life Assurance of 4 times base salary
• Private Medical Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
• Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
• Benefits Platform offering various retail and leisure discounts

You must be familiar with Agile practices and tools and able to work in fast paced CI/CD environmentExperience 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 Ephemeral storage etcGood awareness of Application Lifecycle Management and IT Service Management using tools such as Splunk, Grafana and ServiceNowExperience 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 ObjectivesExperience with testing citizen facing servicesMust be eligible for SC ClearanceExperience with integrating testing as part of the Secure-SDLC and CI/CD tooling in an DevSecOps environment using: GitHub, Jenkins, GitLab SaaS, Artifactory, Nexus etcExperience using formal Test Management tools (Jira/Confluence, ALM)Strong Java coding experience and knowledge of automated test frameworks e.g. Serenity, RestAssuredStrong experience using API testing tools, ideally PostmanStrong experience with Selenium, C# specFlow, BDD frameworkExperience of using JavaScript Automation Frameworks such as WebdriverIO, PlaywrightKnowledge of Microsoft Azure PortalExperience of running stress/load testing using K6 and Grafana or other/similar open-source toolsISEB Certification in Software TestingExperience with data migration projectsExperience working in the Public Sector