QA Automation Professional

Why this job matters

In this job, youll be responsible for the test automation approach and methodology for quality assurance of BT/EE platform solutions. Youll provide technical leadership and strategic direction to automation or qa engineers, resolving the test project issues, and ensuring effective test process improvement feedback. Youll be critical in ensuring that test architecture and test plans are up to date relative to changes in the Digital landscape. Youll confidently lead and share knowledge with a team of engineers. Youll be involved in planning and monitoring the execution of automation tests in CI/CD environment.Excellent communication skills are required as you will be liaising with wider engineering team including operations and product teams. You will also be responsible for implementing latest technology, in line with our continuous integration and delivery goals. The QA Engineering Specialist independently executes a range of critical testing activities for a portfolio of products and services, driving best practice standards for test quality, resource planning and issue resolution, in alignment to business strategy and requirements.

What youll be doing

• Define the test automation driven QA approach and methodology for BT/EE platform solutions
• Be Agile, Test Driven and a highly technical tester.
• Steering the direction of the automation test framework
• You will work directly with Technical Architects and define automation approach, write test plans but can still deliver hands on technically. Whether that be API testing or building test frameworks from scratch.
• Analyse competitive products and technologies with appropriate suggestions to influence product / technology direction.
• Collaborate with test and development engineers on application & testing architecture, to ensure that the approaches and technologies applied to the current implementation are sound and fit for purpose.
• Coordinating the tasks within sprints and looking at ways to automate manual activities within software delivery process.
• Design / architect and implement regular robust full build / deploy / test automation process across our digital platforms along with sub system integrations
• Coordinating test automation activities within projects, including planning and delivering the test phases on time and within budget while meeting all quality objectives.
• Understanding of programming principles and best practice (e.g. DRY, SOLID for creating re-usable code, best practice etc)
• Own the end-to-end code quality and code performance KPIs
• Proactive monitoring of Production estate code.

Skills and Experience Required

Skills
• Having around 4+ years of experience in QA with 3+ years of hands-on experience into Automation, Mobile, API testing.
• Worked with Service Virtualization of Enterprise level API driven front and backend systems
• Expertise in testing methodologies, test techniques and agile QA practices
• Good communication skills of test status across engineering team and stakeholders
• Hands on experience in Java, JavaScript/Typescript, Appium, Typescript, Selenium, WebdriverIO, RestAssured, Postman.
• Expertise with automated testing tools (such as Applitools, Cypress.io, TestCafe, Selenium, Karma, Saucelabs / Browserstack)
• Background in DevOps tooling for execution of automation tests such as Jenkins, GIT, PAAS, Monitoring / Log aggregation
• Line Management of squads various QA team members
• Experience of integrating test scripts into Continuous Integration Pipelines
• Working knowledge of JIRA / Confluence

Experience
• 4+ years of experience in architecting and building test automation frameworks
• Experience with cloud technology such as AWS, Azure etc.
• Experience with BDD or TDD
• TMMi experience or certification (desirable).
• ISTQB (Advanced)
• Experience working with offshore and onshore teams
• Test Management experience across major IT projects & programmes.
• Overall testing strategies and implementation experience
• Good to have People management experience