Test Automation Engineer

Our Client is seeking a Software Engineer with particular strengths in relation to test automation in a continuous delivery environment. The client is looking for a talented individual who can become productive very quickly and has a track record for high quality delivery.

Job Responsibilities

Responsible for all areas of test automation, including building and maintaining test frameworks;

• Implement best of breed, scalable solutions according to defined patterns and practices;
• Responsible for application integration testing with all required systems, databases and services;
• Responsible for the application functionality, performance and scalability testing;
• Responsible for working with the Product Owner to understand business requirements and carry out quality assurance checks on the developed solutions;
• Work as part of a Scrum team using Agile practices and adhering to the values and principles.

Experience Required:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a similar role;
• 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;
• Has written automated tests using one of the following Frameworks Serenity, Ranorex
• TestRail, Semaphore, TestComplete or Applause.
• Database- MDM Tooling, Hands on experience of database script management using
  Redgate, Datical, MS SQL Server or other Relational Database;
• Networking & Communication Protocols – DNS, TCPIP, UDP, HTTP HTTPS, SSL, FTP, SCP, SOAP & REST;
• Languages Java 8, MS SQL, C#, Powershell & Bash;
• Testing Frameworks & Tooling, BDD, Cucumber, TestNG, JUnit, NUnit, JQuery, Selenium;
• Other: OAuth, SAML, SMTP, MAPI, TFS Git, Jenkins pipeline, Mockito Maven, ANT, Gradle, MsBuild, Monitoring using Tivoli/Datadog.

Essential and Desirable Skills

• Hands on experience of working with MDM Tools;
• Excellent database testing experience in the areas of functional, load, capacity and performance, & vulnerability testing;
• Ability to produce a suite of Unit and Integration Tests for Java 8 & C# applications;
• Be able to demonstrate experience of testing NTier Architectures in relation to cloud and on premise applications;
• Have good knowledge of troubleshooting issues with firewalls and proxy servers.  Excellent knowledge communication protocols & networking in relation to application development, deployment and hosting;
• Demonstrate experience of working in a test driven environment with continuous integration pipelines managing the orchestration of feature and regression test packaging & execution;
• Demonstrate hands on experience of testing code quality & metric production & the implementation of quality gates.
• Previous experience working in Financial Services;
• Written and/or oral German language;
• Has experience of using Jenkins, for build and release management;
• Good knowledge of best of breed practices in relation to build management and release management.

Educational Requirements

• 3rd level qualification (honours degree), preferably in a related discipline.

Working Hours & Benefits

• Attractive Salary and Benefits Package
• Bonus of up to 20%
• Defined Contribution Pension