Security cleared Automation Engineer

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 test-first 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