Quality Automation Specialist, Non-Functional Testing

Medirest Signature; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the industry seeks a Quality Automation Specialist to enhance automated testing capabilities and collaboration within Agile teams. The role involves improving testing processes and ensuring high-quality deliverables through innovative methodologies and adherence to regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• Experience in non-functional testing, particularly in Agile CI/CD environments.
• Proficient in automation coding with Java and Javascript.
• Strong communication skills to simplify technical concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design automation test strategies aligned with business goals.
• Collaborate on manual and automated testing scope.
• Create stable, reusable automated tests for end-to-end processes.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Stakeholder Management

Collaboration

Communication

Tools

AWS

Cloudwatch

Grafana

Job description

Join us as a Quality Automation Specialist, Non-Functional Testing

• In this key role, you’ll be undertaking and enabling automated testing activities in all delivery models
• We’ll look to you to support teams to develop quality solutions and enable continuous integration and assurance of defect free deployment of customer value
• You’ll be working closely with feature teams and a variety of stakeholders, giving you great exposure to professional development opportunities

What you'll do

Joining us in a highly collaborative role, you’ll be contributing to the transformation of testing using quality processes, tools, and methodologies, significantly improving control, accuracy and integrity. You’ll make sure repeatable, constant and consistent quality is built into all phases of the idea to value lifecycle at reduced cost or reduced time to market. It’s a chance to work with colleagues at multiple levels, and with cross-domain, domain, platform and feature teams, to build in quality as an integral part of all activities.

Additionally, you’ll be:

• Supporting the design of automation test strategies, aligned to business or programme goals
• Actioning and evolve more predictive and intelligent testing approaches, based on automation and innovative testing products and solutions
• Collaborating to refine the scope of manual and automated testing required, the creation of automated test scripts, user documentation and artefacts
• Designing and creating a low maintenance suite of stable, re-usable automated tests, which are usable both within the product or domain and across domains and systems in an end-to-end capacity
• Applying testing and delivery standards by understanding the product development lifecycle along with mandatory, regulatory and compliance requirements

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with experience of non-functional testing, particularly from an Agile development or CI/CD environment. You’ll be an analytical thinker who can identify software and hardware faults or bottlenecks against design solutions, coupled with the ability to develop complex automation code with Java and Javascript.

You’ll have a good understanding of Agile methodologies with experience of working in an Agile team, with the ability to relate everyday work to the strategic vision of the feature.

We’ll also look for you to have:

• Experience in end-to-end, UI and API non-functional testing using the latest tools as recommended by the enterprise tooling framework
• A background of designing, developing and implementing non-functional tests in AWS environments using Java and Javascript scripting languages and analysing these tests with tooling like Cloudwatch and Grafana
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts to management level colleagues
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills