Senior Automation Test Analyst

ASA International Ltd; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 74,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

ASA Recruitment’s client in Edinburgh is seeking a Senior Automation Test Analyst for a hybrid/remote role on a 12-month contract, outside IR35, rate £400-£450/day. You will lead automation testing and frame­works, collaborating with SMEs, BAs, POs and developers across multiple projects.

The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on automation with Selenium/WebdriverIO/Cypress, experience in CI/CD, and strong reporting / defect management skills within Agile environments.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years automation testing experience on large integration/migration projects
• Proven ability to create and deliver test strategies/frameworks
• Experience with Agile, DevOps, CI/CD or similar delivery models
• Strong knowledge of automated testing tools (Selenium, WebdriverIO, Cypress)
• Experience with API testing (Postman) and cross-browser/device testing
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Public sector experience desirable
• ISEB/ISTQB Foundation or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Assist Test Manager to build functional and automation test capability and frameworks
• Work with teams to achieve functional and automation testing goals across projects
• Capture business processes with SMEs, BAs, POs and devs for automated solutions
• Create and maintain automated regression/smoke test packs with version control
• Provide test leadership on projects/products
• Produce high quality test collateral per Agile methods (test plans, evidence, reports)
• Daily automated and functional test execution across projects/infrastructures
• Provide meaningful reporting on pass/fail criteria
• Perform root cause analysis of failures and rapid issue resolution
• Contribute in standups and delivery ceremonies
• Improve functional and automation testing practices
• Defect recording and management

Skills

Automation testing

Test frameworks

CI/CD experience

Stakeholder management

Agile testing

BDD/TDD/ATDD

Communication

Tools

Selenium

WebdriverIO

Cypress

Jira

ALM

Azure DevOps

Git/Subversion

Jenkins

TeamCity

Postman

Job description

ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Automation Test Analyst on a hybrid/remote basis, on an initial 12 month contract (with potential extensions) on a rate of c.£400-£450/day outside of IR35 (based on experience).

The Role:

Our client is looking for a candidate to provide functional and automation testing expertise and support to various teams and projects across the business. The ideal candidate must be a complete self-starter with the experience to create and deliver functional and automation test strategies/solutions and frameworks to meet project requirements and provide support and insight to the Test Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Assist the Test Manager to build functional and automation test capability and frameworks and provide a clear direction on the test strategy
• Work with the Test Manager and test teams across the business to achieve functional and automation testing goals across multiple projects
• Working with SMEs, BAs, POs and dev to capture business processes followed by the design and build of automated solutions and frameworks across multiple applications
• Create and maintain automated regression/smoke test packs for various applications with appropriate version control in place
• Provide test leadership on a given project/product
• Produce high quality test collateral in line with the Agile methodology – test plans, Test evidence and completion reports
• Daily automated test execution across a range of projects and infrastructures
• Daily functional test execution across a range of projects and infrastructures
• Provide meaningful and accurate reporting against pass/fail criteria
• Root Cause analysis of failures and rapid resolution of issues
• Ability to update at daily stand ups and contribute in other delivery ceremonies
• Improve Functional & Automation testing best practices
• Defect recording and management

Essential Experience:

• Extensive knowledge of using testing tools i.e. JIRA, ALM, Azure, Zepher etc
• Ability to automate front web based end to end systems, interfaces, cross browser/device, mobile apps and other applications
• Comprehensive knowledge of automated testing tools i.e. Selenium, Webdriver I/O, Cypress
• Automated Test Reporting via Cucumber
• Familiarity with version control and release software i.e. GIT, Subversion, Azure DevOps, Jenkins or team city
• Proven track record of automation within an Agile framework i.e. DevOps, CI/CD or FDD
• Aptitude to working with various languages and frameworks including C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, .NET, SQL, VBA/VBScript, shell scripting
• Detailed understanding of software architectures – SOA, IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, Client Server and experience of testing Cloud and Azure based solutions
• Understanding testing methodologies i.e. Agile (BDD,TDD, ATDD), Kanban, Waterfall and V-Model
• Device emulation and API testing via Postman
• ISEB/ISTQB Foundation
• Experience in working with multiple software delivery/ testing methodologies
• Minimum 5-8 years automation testing experience on large integration and migration projects/programmes in a technical test capacity
• Knowledge or appreciation of various testing and lifecycle management tools
• Strong stakeholder management & communication skills
• Previous experience of working within the public sector