Walter Everett is a recruitment company and we are currently helping our client to recruit a Security Cleared QA Automation Engineer
What you'll be doing:
- Working with the product team to define the acceptance criteria and testing DOD for each story
- Pairing with the developers to define and review the required tests that will address all features and functions of a product delivery at the unit and component layer
- Performing exploratory testing at all levels
- Working with the Product team to define tests throughout the product delivery into live
- Automating tests where required.
- Working collaboratively with developers to design and test stubs
- Ensure the team define tests to validate NFR’s at the appropriate level
- Ensuring traceability is maintained throughout the product delivery
- Ensuring the team is aware of test progress and quality metrics and that the team delivers them in a format this is consumable by those who have asked for them.
- Raising the profile of quality throughout the product lifecycle
- Working in an Agile team you will be responsible for inputting to the design and build of automated tests to ensure adequate and effective test coverage
- Provide test assurance of the user stories according to the defined acceptance test criteria; whilst working in a testfirst environment.
- Work closely with Software Engineers to deliver the test activities to meet the requirements whilst contributing to effective agile delivery.
- Able to participate in estimation activities and are encouraged to identify opportunities to maximise test benefit within the team.
- Provide assurance at team retrospectives and planning sessions to ensure test best practice continual improvements and appropriate standards are adhered to
- Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills experience working in Agile delivery teams using TDD with Java and be able to work autonomously.
- Experience of PACT frameworks that enable Consumer Driven Contract testing is desirable
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and their importance in Automation Testing process
- Exposure to command line and scripting languages for at least one OS (Windows or Linux)
- Good coding skills (SOLID DI Design Patterns etc.)
- Able to unit test the framework built
What experience you'll bring:
- Strong relevant experience as a QA Automation Engineer
- Experience and knowledge of API testing and the use of Postman
- Cypress
- Docker for running the Cypress container
- Working with Gitlab for storage of all developed test automation
- TDD Using Junit
- SonarQube
- Jenkins
- Splunk