Senior QA Automation Engineer

Senior QA Automation Engineer

South Wales (3 days on site)

£65,000 and generous bonus scheme

The Senior Quality Engineer will play a crucial role in delivering high quality software products. The role will act as a guardian of quality and continually seeking ways to improve processes, tools and techniques. This is a techno functional hands-on role with strong Agile test delivery experience to guide, oversee & deliver testing activities within a product team.

Essential:

• Experience: Minimum of 5 years working with Scrum teams specialising in both manual testing and test automation.
• Technical Expertise: At least 2-3 years of experience as a Senior Quality Engineer, with proficiency in Pega (including Scenario testing), test automation tools (Katalon Professional or Expert certified), DevOps pipelines (CI/CD) and Azure Test Plans.
• Soft Skills: Analytical thinking, problem-solving, communication, collaboration and the ability to handle high-pressure situations.
• Language Skills: High proficiency in written and spoken English.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a quality advocate within the Product team, working with cross-functional Agile team members to ensure high-quality test deliverables.
• Work closely with the respective Engineering Delivery Lead / Manager on the day-to-day testing activities and where possible drive a shift-left test approach.
• Collaborate with the Quality Engineering Practice Manager to facilitate and improve testing practices, establish the framework to track quality metrics
• Collaborate with our test partners (offshore test team) with respect to day-to-day testing activities and where required guide the offshore team members, fostering skill development and collaboration.

Hands-On Testing & Test Automation:

• Design, develop, and execute manual and automated test cases, ensuring coverage of functional, integration, and regression test scenarios.
• Hands on experience of creating, maintaining & enhancing test automation scripts built using UI automation tool such as Katalon Studio.
• Collaborate closely with the Engineering Delivery Leads to explore opportunities to introduce in sprint automation within the testing lifecycle.
• Conduct root cause analysis for defects and ensure timely resolution with development teams.
• Support business users with acceptance testing where required and facilitate demos as and when required during the sprint lifecycle.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to iron out environment/deployment issues.

Reasonable Adjustments: We understand that there are a wide range of reasons that you may require reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process- please let us know in your application how we can best support you.