Senior Automated Tester

We're looking for an experienced automated tester for a HealthTech provider, improving healthcare standards and making people's life better.

You will be someone who possesses excellent problem solving skills and has a diverse set of technical skills both in manual and automated software testing and have been there and done that when it comes to automation frameworks.

You must be a strong communicator and structured individual with excellent attention to detail have the ability to develop effective working relationships with all areas of a business.

The role will deliver value through increasing automated test coverage, which is a key business strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Play an active role in the Agile planning process and define Test Cases from written requirements and User Stories
• Automate test workflows using Selenium 2.0 Webdriver / TestNG (Java) / Cucumber (BDD)
• An element of execution of manual tests
• Show innovation in your approach to automated testing
• Identify, characterise and report software defects found to the development team
• Be part of a cross functional team, who collectively take responsibility for the deliverables and quality
• Contribute to the continued improvement of the QA test strategy and process
• Maintain the Jenkins build system

Essential Experience:

• Significant QA experience focused mainly on automation
• Strong knowledge in implementing, maintaining and revolving automation frameworks
• Expertise in analysing test results and ability to effectively triage the regression runs
• Strong knowledge of setting up and maintaining a CI (Jenkins) system using a master / slave architecture.
• Experience managing automation backlogs in Jira or similar + automation strategy roadmaps
• Unix/Linux exposure and ability to create scripts [shell/perl/python)
• Understand Agile along with BDD. Be able to work within Scrum frameworks
• Strong knowledge of using source control systems (GIT)
• Strong knowledge in writing complex SQL for Data Fixtures
• Experience in writing REST API automation using python and robot framework.

Preferred Experience:

• Understand how to implement and maintain Selenium Grid
• Understand performance testing and exposure to performance test tools
• Understanding of Containerisation (Docker or equivalent) and using VM’s

An excellent opportunity to be part of a first class technical team but also help a good cause.