Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

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 Quality Assurance Engineer on a hybrid/remote basis for an initial 12-month contract, outside IR35 at £400-£450/day. The role focuses on creating and delivering functional and automation QA strategies and frameworks, with responsibilities spanning test planning, automation development, and leadership across multiple projects.

The candidate will work with QA leads, SMEs, BAs, POs and developers to implement automated solutions, maintain

Qualifications

• 5–8 years automation testing/QA experience on large integration and migration projects/programmes in a technical test capacity.
• Public sector experience is advantageous.
• Ability to automate front web-based end-to-end systems across multiple platforms and devices.
• Proven track record delivering QA strategies, frameworks and automation solutions.

Responsibilities

• Assist QA Lead to build functional and automation QA capability and frameworks.
• Collaborate with SMEs, BAs, POs and developers to design automated solutions.
• Create and maintain automated regression/smoke test packs with version control.
• Provide QA leadership on projects and produce test collateral (test plans, evidence, reports).
• Daily automated and functional validation across projects and infrastructures.
• Report pass/fail criteria and perform root-cause analysis.

Skills

QA/Testing

Agile/DevOps

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

ISTQB Foundation

Tools

JIRA

ALM

Azure DevOps

DevOps

Zephyr

GIT

Subversion

Jenkins

TeamCity

Job description

ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer 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 Quality Assurance (QA) 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 QA strategies/solutions and frameworks to meet project requirements and provide support and insight to the QA Lead.

Responsibilities:

• Assist the QA Lead to build functional and automation test/QA capability and frameworks and provide a clear direction on the QA strategy
• Work with the QA Lead and QA 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 across CDI with appropriate version control in place
• Provide QA 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 validation 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 QA best practices
• Cement QA principles and techniques early with the software delivery process
• Collaboration with Developers around "shifting testing left"
• Defect recording and management

Essential Experience:

• Extensive knowledge of using testing/QA tools i.e. JIRA, ALM, Azure, Dev Ops, 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 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 validating Cloud and Azure based solutions
• Understanding testing & QA methodologies i.e. Agile (BDD,TDD, ATDD), Kanban, Waterfall and V-Model
• Previous experience of MS Dynamics, MS Power Apps and the Power Platform
• Device emulation and API validation via Postman
• ISEB/ISTQB Foundation
• Experience in working with multiple software delivery/QA methodologies
• Minimum 5-8 years automation testing/QA experience on large integration and migration projects/programmes in a technical test capacity
• Knowledge or appreciation of various testing/QA and lifecycle management tools
• Strong stakeholder management & communication skills
• Previous experience of working within the public sector