Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit 2 x Senior Automation Test Analysts for initial 12 month contracts with option to extend on a rate of £400-£450/day (Outside of IR35). These roles will be based onsite, however home working will be considered subject to attendance where needed.
Responsibilities:
- Assist the Test Lead to build automation test capability and frameworks across CDi and provide a clear direction into the overall test strategy
- Provide leadership on future direction and roadmap for test automation
- Lead an automation team of approx. 3-4 automation testers with a focus on high quality automated test delivery
- Work with the Test Lead and test teams across the business and CDI to achieve 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 within CDI
- Create and maintain automated regression/smoke test packs for various applications across CDI with appropriate version control in place
- Provide test 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
- Coaching, mentoring and supporting automation testers during automated test delivery
- Root Cause analysis of failures and rapid resolution of issues
- Ability to update at daily stand ups and contribute in other delivery ceremonies
- Improve Automation testing best practices within CDi
- Automated integration with Device lab
Essential Skills:
- Extensive knowledge of using testing tools i.e. Azure, JIRA, ALM 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 i.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 testing Cloud and Azure based solutions
- Understanding testing methodologies i.e. Agile (BDD, TDD, ATDD), Kanban, Waterfall and V-Model
- ISEB/ISTQB Foundation
- Experience in working with multiple software delivery/ testing methodologies
- Minimum 8-10 years automation testing experience on large integration and migration projects/programmes in a technical test capacity
- Knowledge or appreciation of various testing and lifecycle management tools
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Previous experience of working within the public sector
If you would like to hear more about these opportunities please get in touch.