Job title: Test Automation Engineer
Job type: Perm
Emp type: Full-time
Industry: Public Sector - Government / MOD
Salary type: Annual
Salary from: GBP £55,000.00
Salary to: GBP £65,000.00
Location: Brighton
Job published: 01-08-2024
Job ID: 35418

Job Description

Test Automation Engineer
Location: Brighton (1-2 days a week in the office)
Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 (plus bonus, excellent benefits)
Permanent

Skills: C#, Selenium and/or Playwright, SQL Server

We are looking to recruit a Test Automation Engineer with experience of designing, developing, and delivering effective Automation Testing during the development process in a long-lived continuous improvement team.

There will be some elements of line management, which 1- 3 people will report into you, however management experience isn’t an essential.

This is a permanent position based in Brighton, with at least 1-2 days a week in the office.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead investigative work into problems and opportunities in existing processes.
  • Lead and advise automation testing with a strategic understanding of IT trends and technologies.
  • Absorb large amounts of conflicting information and use it to determine solutions.
  • Think creatively, ask the right questions and critically evaluate and communicate findings to the larger team.
  • Be the person on-point and overall responsible for the automation testing delivery within a service delivery/Platform/enabling team.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of emerging tools and techniques.
  • Set up frameworks based on the needs of the team
  • Effectively work across different tools and software languages.
  • Advise on up-to-date functional and non-functional testing techniques.
  • Lead, assess and peer-review the work of others.
  • Coach and mentor others with some line management if required.
  • Write functional and non-functional test approaches for major projects and provide guidance on risk approaches.
  • Devise new functional and non-functional test techniques and provide recommendations in conjunction with the Delivery Test Lead or Test Manager.
  • Devise plans for transforming currently existing manual test scripts into automated test processes.

Qualifications:

  • Professional experience with manual and automation testing of web-based applications, ideally using Selenium and/or Playwright.
  • Experience crafting automation tests and demonstrating test frameworks collaborating with some of the following: RESTful services, Message Queues, Relational Databases.
  • Experience of SQL Server and C# and proven capability to write sophisticated queries to analyse problems and prepare data.
  • Experience a range of testing methodologies and techniques including agile, with the ability to write test procedures, plans and report development/implementation.
  • Extensive experience in automation framework outlining and script coding.