Professional level (6+ years’ experience) as an Automation QA within a modern software development environment.
Experience with C# .Net
Strong experience with REST APIs and API testing strategies.
BDD experience with high focus on test automation vs manual testing
Strong understanding of a balanced Test Pyramid with separation of unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
Able to describe differences and identify candidates for Unit, Integration & E2E tests
Experience improving, refactoring, and rewriting tests.
Experience ensuring that tests run within CI/CD pipelines
Experience with Specflow/Reqnroll
Understanding of SQL
Experience with agile methodologies.
Excellent knowledge of software testing methodologies and techniques
Good team collaboration and communication skills.
Attention to detail.
Calm under pressure.
Optional
Previous experience in the payments industry or with PCI DSS compliance is advantageous.
Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS and containerisation tools like Docker and localstack.
Experience with performance and non-functional testing.
Knowledge of testing highly available, scalable, and business-critical systems
Your responsibilities
Collaborate with Solution Architects, Product Owners, Developers, DevOps and other QA Automation Engineers to contribute to both the testing of new product features, and the improvement of testing of existing/legacy features, using technologies and tools including :
Analyse business requirements, internal designs and non-functional requirements and estimate user stories collaboratively with the team.
Advocating and continuing to maintain an automated Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) approach with all software solutions
Write and execute robust test scripts, attaining a high percentage of test automation and regression within CI/CD pipelines
Manual exploratory testing and maintenance of a clear manual test plan for any test scenarios that can't be automated
Review logs and databases as part of the testing process, and automate this where possible
Following industry best practices and ensure other members of the team do likewise.