Senior Test Engineer / Test Automation Engineer

Work as a Senior Test Engineer within a team, ensuring the quality of software in our many business areas.   

This opportunity will be an office-based role at one of our sites in the Gloucester or Manchester area. All candidates must already hold eDV to be eligible.

Skills and Experience

• Experience of working in an Agile/Scrum/DevOps delivery model 

• Experience of test automation frameworks and tools. 

• Experience of scripting languages and scripting for automation. 

• Experience producing test plans and reports using applicable tools 

• Understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle and demonstrable evidence of relevant test methodologies and toolsets 

Desirable

• AWS and/or Azure 

• Continuous Integration 

• Experience of deploying and configuring complex software under Linux/Windows 

• Ability to review and apply different tools and techniques e.g. monitoring, logging, performance testing 

Responsibilities

• Apply test skills and experience within the context of an Agile software delivery team 

• Responsible for the creation and maintenance of automated test frameworks 

• Define and manage test environments; create and manage test data; define and manage test tools 

• Support estimation of test activities 

• Support test team interactions with the wider development team and assist in the resolution of issues 

• Contribute to the production of test documents using appropriate tools as required 

• Raise defects and support the wider development team in their resolution 

• Manage creation of automated and manual test scripts 

• Produce test and deployment strategies and plans in compliance with customer project guidelines 

• Support test team interactions with the wider development team and assist in the resolution of issues