Software Automation Engineer

Job Responsibilities

• Support through all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle, through your interactions across the organisation with Product Owners, Software Engineering teams, SRE team and other stakeholders as necessary
• Maintain the standards for quality delivery, metrics definition and KPIs and ensuring standards are maintained for functional and non-functional QA
• Support estimating, prioritizing, planning and coordinating Quality Assurance activities within Software Development teams
• Implement the most effective tools and delivery processes to ensure high-quality standards are maintained effectively
• Maintain and execute test cases
• Creating and executing tests to validate issues and fixes
• Reporting bugs and tracking issues to resolution using reporting technology =
• Making sure issues are documented in a manner that ensures that all stakeholders are in a position to reproduce issues
• Communicating any test results and findings
• Support regulatory/audit/security QA internally and externally as required
• Support sufficient test coverage across customer facing channels and internal web tools
• Implement appropriate best practices to support rapid and efficient capacity scaling and increase the quality & velocity of deployments
• Manage the incident handling process in a proactive manner to ensure rapid resolution of issues
• Work closely with the team to create roadmaps for improving quality levels, estimate work packages and set priorities for your team aligned with company strategy
• Contribute to a rewarding working environment that aligns with the company culture
• Ensure that stakeholders are kept up to date on all activities that may affect their individual goals
• Support estimation of quality effort/activity for new projects and features, and dependencies/impacts, working closely with technical and business teams

Experience Required

• 2+ years experience with automation testing
• Previous experience working in a team of QA Engineers
• A strong knowledge base of QA methodologies
• An individual with a strong bias towards efficiency through automation, continually improving QA approach, scaling processes and implementing effective monitoring as required
• Experience with one or more of the following: such as Selenium, .Net Core, Visual Studio or Git.

Essential and Desirable Skills

• ISTQB certifications are a bonus
• Cloud experience is desirable
• Good, strong people skills
• Excellent organisation and time-management skills, able to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• The ability to deliver on any objectives assigned to you with a strong sense of urgency and confidence
• The ability to handle customer/stakeholder escalations & multiple competing priorities
• Communicate clearly and with purpose, working effectively with team members and stakeholders across the organisation
• Taking ownership of your work and take responsibility for delivering key project outcomes

Educational Requirements

• A relevant degree