Quality Assurance Automation Engineer in Isleworth

Energy Jobline ZR; Isleworth; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent recruitment specialist is seeking a QA Automation Engineer for a 6-month contract in Osterley. The role involves crafting high-quality automated tests, collaborating within agile teams, and implementing best practices in test automation. Strong programming skills in Java or Python and experience with automation tools like Cucumber and Jenkins are required. This hybrid role offers exciting opportunities to work across enterprise and digital applications.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Java or Ruby.
• Hands-on experience with Cucumber & Gherkin.
• Experience with Continuous Integration tools.

Responsibilities

• Understand design specifications and produce detailed test plans.
• Produce high quality automated tests to agreed specifications.
• Collaborate with development teams to clarify requirements.

Skills

Java programming

Python programming

Agile methodologies

Test-driven development

Cucumber

Gherkin testing

Problem-solving

Tools

Jenkins

GIT

JIRA

Job description

Job Overview

Energy Jobline is the largest and fastest growing global Energy Job Board and Energy Hub. We have an audience reach of over 7 million energy professionals, 400,000+ monthly advertised global energy and engineering jobs, and work with the leading energy companies worldwide.

We focus on the Oil & Gas, Renewables, Engineering, Power, and Nuclear markets as well as emerging technologies in EV, Battery, and Fusion. We are committed to ensuring that we offer the most exciting career opportunities from around the world for our jobseekers.

Job Description

We are a Global Recruitment specialist that provides support to the clients across EMEA, APAC, US and Canada. We have an excellent job opportunity for you.

Job Title: QA Automation Engineer
Duration: 6 months contract
Location: Osterley (Hybrid)

Responsibilities

• Understand design specifications and scenarios, and produce detailed test plans
• Produce high quality automated tests to agreed specifications and deadlines
• Work collaboratively within a project team using agile methodologies
• Participate in sprint planning, sprint demos and retrospectives

Skills

• Strong Java/Python programming skills - experience and strong ability of agile, test-driven software development.
• Excellent verbal, written communication, and interpersonal skills
• Understanding of automation using Cucumber/ Gherkin testing
• Ability to work to tight timescales
• Must be flexible and work as part of a team
• Excellent problem-solving capabilities with the ability to become expert with the internal software

What you'll do

• Use and improve our Test Automation Frameworks as well as crafting frameworks!
• Be the go-to person for coding standards within Ruby or Java
• Work across enterprise and digital applications such as Web, Mobile and Desktop!
• Implement leading and Open-Source tooling and best processes (GIT, Jenkins, JIRA, Cucumber)
• Work on React and Node JS stack
• Collaborate with developers and business/product owner to clarify requirements, especially in terms of testability and completeness

What you'll bring

• A deep level understanding of Software Testing and / or Quality Assurance.
• Experience working in Agile (TDD / BDD) environment
• Strong experience in Java or Ruby and Hands‑on experience with Cucumber & Gherkin
• Strong experience in Automating frontend and backend API testing
• Creating and maintaining the test automation framework and identifying tests to be automated using BDD
• Experience using Continuous Integration tools (Hudson, Jenkins etc.), version control solutions (GIT, SVN etc.)
• Experience with JIRA – Defect Management and reporting

Application

If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more, please send through your CV and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible. Please note, candidates are often Shortlisted within 48 hours.

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