Automation Test Engineer in Sheffield

ROLE: Automation Test Engineer

Location: Sheffield

Work Mode: Hybrid

This role is predominantly required to fulfil the role of Automation test engineer, with occasional manual testing where required

Solid experience of at least 3 years in the use of automation tooling and framework creation especially with Java and SQL

· Excellent verbal and written communications skills and stakeholder engagement at all levels

· Able to develop and execute test plans, test cases, test data, test scenarios, and other testing related plans and documentation based on the requirements and technical specifications

· Plan, develop, execute, maintain and improve Automated Test Frameworks and Automated Test Scripts for Web and Database applications

· Proven experience in writing automated test scripts using JavaScript

· Experience of using automation tools such as Selenium web driver IO (WDIO) / Cucumber etc, Selenium for UI testing and RestAssured for API testing

· Jenkins pipeline creation and management for running automated tests, generating reports and notifying team about test results to streamline the CI/CD process.

· Web UI Testing

· Database comparison test experience

· Experience testing in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Ali Cloud

· Solid experience using JIRA and Xephyr tooling

· Accurately report and track testing related defects and issues, by writing or automating, effective and thorough bug reports, attend triage meetings and verify bug fixes

· Identify process and application issues and provide suggestions to improve

· Learn new technologies and adapt to them as needed

· Identify and deploy automation solutions based on changing project needs

· Strong manual test execution experience

· Identification and collating test entry and exit criteria

· Good experience of executing defined test plans including coordination, tracking and reporting

· Positive team player working as part of the overall test team, both manual and automated

· Test case review/QA for coverage and traceability to requirements/design

· Liaison with business areas/technical leads re SIT/OAT/UAT scenario definitions as required

· Analysis of design and other documents for testability

· Previous experience within Identity and Access Management- preferable

· Any exposure to SailPoint IdentityIQ, Identity warehousing, and working with protocols and formats for data ingestion such as SCIM, REST API, LDAP, OIDC and CSV

· Experience of testing graph database management systems (GDBMS)

· ServiceNow, AD, AWS, Azure integrations

· Testing functions and decision points \”As Code\”, such as Policy as code

· Experience of GitOps Repos

· API Testing, API Gateway testing, Batch ETL testing

· Proven ability to mentor other engineers within the team

· DevOps & CI/CD Integration – Ability to integrate automation tests into GitLab CI/CD pipelines and implement shift-left testing practices

· Pub Sub and MQ

· GCP (Cloud) testing approaches and methodology.

· SaaS Testing

· Skill set ideally including several of:

· Java, Cypher, Python, JavaScript, PHP, .NET, Go, SQL Server, MySQL

· API

· QMetry

· Test Rail

· BDD/TDD

· Jenkins

· Postman

· Insomnia