Senior QA Automation Engineer

ClearCourse; Ashford; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Join ClearCourse as a Senior QA Automation Engineer where you will be a key contributor to testing in a dynamic fintech environment. Work with cutting-edge technologies and automation frameworks to enhance our robust payment platform. Enjoy a competitive salary, hybrid working, and generous benefits while developing your career in a supportive culture recognized for employee wellbeing.

Benefits

25 days annual leave + birthday off

Volunteering days

Life Assurance and Group Income Protection

Private medical cover

Enhanced Company Pension

Employee wellbeing perks

Generous training budgets

Qualifications

• 6+ years’ experience as an automation QA.
• Strong experience with API testing and BDD.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and test automation.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to test new product features.
• Write and execute automated tests in CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain manual testing for non-automated scenarios.

Skills

Automation QA

REST APIs

BDD

Test Automation

Microservices

Tools

SpecFlow

Postman

Selenium

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Job description

Are you an experienced Senior QA Engineer looking for an exciting fresh start in a dynamic and fast paced fintech environment?

Our innovative payments platform is built using API first, cloud native, microservice architecture written in dotnet core C# running on AWS using serverless infrastructure (AWS ECS + Fargate). We store our data in various database engines managed by AWS (DynamoDB, Aurora PostgreSQL and DocumentDB). Our CI/CD process is managed by our DevOps team using Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and all our services are covered by automation tests using BDD. We are also in the process of delivering an Android application written in Kotlin to run a payment application on an Ingenico Android payment terminal. Our platform high available 365/24/7, scalable and secure, having been certified to PCI DSS Level 1.

As we continue to enhance the platform and accelerate delivery with additional development teams, we require a Senior QA Automation Engineer to assist with the testing and QA automation of new product features.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborating with the Solution Architects, Product Owners, Developers, DevOps and other QA Automation Engineers to contribute to the testing of new product features, using technologies/tools including:
• Testing Tools: SpecFlow/Reqnroll, Postman, Playwright, Swagger, Selenium
• Bug Tracking: Azure Devops
• Documentation: Confluence, flowcharts
• Analysing business requirements, internal designs and non-functional requirements and estimating user stories collaboratively with the team
• Advocating and continuing to maintain an automated Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) approach with all software solutions
• Write and execute robust test scripts, attaining a high percentage of test automation and regression within CI/CD pipelines
• Manual exploratory testing and maintenance of a clear manual test plan for any test scenarios that can't be automated
• Review logs and databases as part of the testing process and automate this where possible
• Following industry best practices
  

Required Skills And Qualifications

• Professional level (6+ years’ experience) as an automation QA within a modern software environment
• Strong experience with REST APIs and API testing strategies.
• Strong BDD experience with high focus on test automation vs manual testing
• Strong understanding of a balanced Test Pyramid with separation of unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Experience implementing QA tests within a Microservices architecture
• Able to describe differences and identify candidates for Unit, Integration & E2E tests
• Experience improving, refactoring, and rewriting tests.
• Experience ensuring that tests run within CI/CD pipelines
  
  

We offer a competitive salary and generous benefits package, including:

• Hybrid-working model with 25 days annual leave + your birthday off
• Volunteering days
• Life Assurance and Group Income Protection
• Private medical cover with cash plan
• Enhanced Company Pension
• Employee wellbeing perks such as Perkbox and Peppy
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Generous training budgets and reimbursement for professional memberships
  
  

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Why ClearCourse?

We're a rapidly growing collaborative of disruptive technology innovators, working together to build a brilliant software and payments business.

As a ClearCourse employee, you’ll get the support and structure that you need to enjoy your work and develop your career while doing what you love and making a difference in a fast-paced and innovative business that has recently been named one the UK's Best Workplaces For Wellbeing in 2023.

At ClearCourse we're committed to an inclusive culture and are keen to attract diverse individuals who thrive in a flexible working environment. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and interview stages, please let us know.

Across our business, we’re investing in our people, expanding our expertise, and developing our vision. Want to get on board? We’d love to speak with you.