QA Engineer

Dns Info Ltd; Basildon; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in Basildon is seeking a skilled Automation Engineer to enhance their testing regimen. You will perform API and Web automation testing, create automation scripts, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout product development. Ideal candidates have over 6 years of experience in automated testing, a strong grasp of testing methodologies, and familiarity with tools like Cypress, Selenium, and Jira. A detail-oriented and analytical mindset is essential, along with effective time management skills.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in automating tests for Web and APIs.
• Experience in working with agile teams.
• Familiar with defect management and reporting on Jira.

Responsibilities

• Perform Manual and API testing for new development.
• Create and maintain E2E test automation scripts.
• Manage the Jira board and ensure project deadlines are met.

Skills

API Automation

Web Automation

Manual Testing

Python

Java

Jira

Tools

Cypress

Selenium

Postman

Appium

Jenkins

Xray

Kibana

Job description

Overview

We are looking for a curious, details-oriented Automation Engineer who is skilled in API Automation, Web automation and Manual testing. You will join the team and help expand our testing regimen, ensuring that every corner of the application is covered with the most thorough test runs known to man, woman or beast, while simultaneously maintaining the responsiveness.

We use tools like Cypress, Pytest, Selenium, Appium, Xcode, Android Studio, TestFlight, Kibana, Rundeck, Jira, Xray, Jenkins. We believe in evaluating better technologies in order to continuously improve our testing efficiency and coverage. While we value expertise with the tools above, we know that smart QEs are great learners as well.

Quality Engineering is an integral part of the product development team and closely involved in every step along the way - from ideation of the project, during implementation, and to the final deployment. Assuring the quality of our product is a heavy responsibility. Our development team builds in rapid iterations and our QE team needs to respond to that.

As a Quality Automation Engineer, you will be working in a cross functional team of designers, developers, product and project managers to build the automated test cycles for the world class banking products focused on the next generation workers.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Perform Manual and API testing for the new development.
• Create and maintain E2E test automation scripts and perform continuous testing using Jenkins and SauceLabs by keeping a high automation ratio.
• Responsible for in-sprint API and Web automation testing of the scheduled releases and maintaining the regression suite.
• Creation of test plans, test automation strategies, test cycles and test cases. Assess the reports generated after automated scripts execution and identify bugs.
• Write APIs automated tests and DB validations using Python in the pytest framework.
• Responsible for managing the Jira board from opening to completion of tasks and target to meet the deadline of the project.
• 6+ years of experience with automating tests for Web(Cypress, Selenium with Java) and APIs.
• Experience working with Postman and API automation testing.
• Strong grasp of testing methodologies for all types of testing - Functional, Regression, Sanity, Smoke, White Box, and Black Box testing.
• Experience with Atlassian products like Jira, Xray and Confluence.
• Experience in one or more programming languages like Java, Python, and Javascript.
• Experience in working closely with the Software Development and Product Team in an agile environment.
• Good understanding of source code management and version control systems like GitHub, SourceTree.
• Familiar with reporting bugs on Jira and defect life cycle management.
• Time management skills, ability to meet deadlines, and function in a fast paced and flexible environment.
• Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial.
• Details oriented with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to deal with situations where information is difficult to obtain, complex or ambiguous.
• Experience in handling multiple projects at the same time and meeting deadlines.
• Experience and knowledge in the Fintech industry is an asset.

Reports To

Quality Engineering Manager/Tech Lead

Nice to have

• Mobile automation with Appium is a plus.
• Knowledge of Grafana, Kibana, Rundeck, AWS.