Software Engineer

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for all areas of test automation, including building maintaining and documenting adopted Test Automation Frameworks;
• Define the test strategy for new functionality focusing on achieving the optimal test approach for all functional and non-functional scope;
• Develop, automate and maintain highly effective test cases leveraging automation to optimise test cycle times and the lead time for delivery of new functionality;
• Ensure comprehensive and transparent test coverage for new and existing product features;
• Implement best of breed, scalable solutions according to defined patterns and practices;
• Responsible for application integration testing with all required systems, databases and services;
• Work closely with the Software Engineers to understand the codebase and the unit test coverage and to ensure the testability for a given feature;
• Responsible for working with the Product Owner to understand business requirements and carry out quality assurance checks on the developed solutions;
• Researching test tools, methodologies, and trends and working on continuous process improvement initiatives within the companies Quality Practice
• Work as part of a Scrum team using Agile practices and adhering to the values and principles; and
• Promote testing best practices within the team.

Experience Required

• Experiencing owning and defining the test strategy for new features and breaking it down into the corresponding test types and building and executing an effective automation strategy for these;
• Experience of writing a test framework or at a minimum maintaining one;
• Experience of using an automated maven build, to trigger tests;
• Excellent knowledge of the maven lifecycle;
• Good Java development Skills and experience of writing unit, integration and BDD Tests;
• Experience of writing BDD Test suites with Gherkin, Cucumber and Junit;
• Experience of best of breed practices in relation to test delivery;
• Has worked in highly automated CI/CD environments;
• Excellent java and git skills; and
• Has written automated tests using one of the following Frameworks/Libraries: Serenity, Selenium, Cucumber, Rest Assured.

Educational Requirements

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a similar role; and
• 3rd level qualification (honours degree), preferably in a related discipline.