Senior QA Engineer - Hybrid, Automation & E2E Testing

Energy Jobline ZR; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday

Pension 7%

Discretionary bonus

Share schemes

Health Cash Plan

Free onsite gym

Family leave

Travel and bike loan

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

AJ Bell in the UK is recruiting a Senior Software Test Engineer to test UI, API, back office and integrations, delivering resilient software in a fast-paced environment.

You will coach testers, extend automated frameworks and collaborate with developers in an Agile team to improve quality across projects.

The role offers a hybrid working model with opportunities to influence product quality and delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience of working as a Senior Tester and delegating work to other testers within the team and being a first point of contact if they require help or assistance.
• Full understanding of the testing lifecycle & methodologies
• Create and design automated test scripts using the BDD methodology
• Maintain and enhance the existing automation frameworks
• Carry out exploratory testing within an Agile development environment
• Develop test tools, and extend test frameworks and test environments
• Provenexperience testing APIs using integration tools
• Knowledge of Cypress, Gherkin, Page Object Model, PactumJS, TypeScript
• Technical understanding of processes under test and relevant related processes and the ability to test components
• An understanding of test automation concepts and their application
• Experience in CI / CD using tools such as Jenkins, Git, AWS CodePipeline
• Take an automation-first approach to test execution where possible
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate effectively with those in a technical role (e.g. developers) in addition to user

Responsibilities

• Coaching/developing testers, reviewing their work (peer review), delegation of work and/or setting tasks/targets/objectives
• Carry out testing across a wide range of processes and systems - including UI, API, back office (workflow) processes, 3rd party systems and integrations between all of these systems including end to end testing
• Understand and interpret business, functional and technical requirements
• Understand AJ Bell products and processes, and relevant Financial Services legislation
• Have input into how solutions are developed and delivered using knowledge and expertise to help deliver the best possible outcome for the customer
• Execute test scripts and record results using software testing tools (JIRA/XRAY)
• Raising bugs in a timely manner with sufficient detail to be fixed/reproduced
• Working alongside Technical Leads and Testers from Project inception to create and implement appropriate test automation approach to complement the manual testing and overall project deliveries.
• Being involved in exciting new research projects and proof of concepts
• Supporting User Acceptance Testing and release to Production
• Knowledge of Agile working practices and ability to apply its practice

Skills

Senior Tester

Test automation

API testing

UI testing

Exploratory testing

Communication

Mentoring

Tools

Cypress

Gherkin

Page Object Model

PactumJS

TypeScript

Jenkins

Git

AWS CodePipeline

Job description

AJ Bell in the UK is recruiting a Senior Software Test Engineer to test UI, API, back office and integrations, delivering resilient software in a fast-paced environment.

You will coach testers, extend automated frameworks and collaborate with developers in an Agile team to improve quality across projects.

The role offers a hybrid working model with opportunities to influence product quality and delivery.