Senior QA Automation Engineer

ClearCourse; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic fintech environment as a Senior QA Automation Engineer, where you'll play a crucial role in enhancing an innovative payments platform. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement automated testing strategies, ensuring high-quality software delivery. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies in a cloud-native microservices architecture, focusing on test automation and BDD practices. Enjoy a hybrid working model with generous benefits, including enhanced leave and professional development opportunities. If you're passionate about quality assurance and want to make a significant impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

25 days annual leave + birthday off

Life Assurance

Private medical cover

Enhanced Company Pension

Employee wellbeing perks

Generous training budgets

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in automation QA within a modern software environment.
• Strong focus on BDD and test automation strategies.
• Experience with Microservices architecture and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to test new product features using various tools.
• Write and execute robust test scripts for high automation coverage.
• Conduct manual exploratory testing and maintain test plans.

Skills

REST APIs

Test Automation

Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Microservices Architecture

Manual Testing

Collaboration

Tools

SpecFlow

Postman

Playwright

Selenium

Azure DevOps

Confluence

Terraform

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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

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.

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