Senior Automation Test Analyst - Doncaster based

While you’ll have heard our name, there’s a lot you probably don’t know about Next. Like how we create most of our systems ourselves – whether it’s a website, mobile app or application. What’s more, we’re growing. Fast. And it’s the kind of growth and investment that is exciting for everyone in our business. Our eCommerce websites and apps have grown steadily over the past 10 years to become one of the largest online retail platforms in the UK. We currently sell to over 70 international markets, offering our 6 million active customers a personalised shopping experience and the ability to purchase from a wide range of products using multiple delivery methods and payment types.

eCommerce is the biggest department at Next and is based across multiple sites and countries, working across development, testing, support, architecture and more to keep ourselves ahead of the pack.

About the Team

Working in one of the largest QA teams in the country, made up of Manual and Automation Testers of varying levels but also skilled Developers and Product Development Managers as part of the wider eCommerce department. This team focuses on continual delivery of functionality which ensures our customers have the best shopping experience across our UK and international sites. eCommerce Systems create all our websites in-house and mobile apps for our UK and International eCommerce platforms, then deploy & manage them. All websites and apps are still growing and continually need testing.

About the Role

We are looking for a skilled Senior Test Analyst to join our growing eCommerce team and to play a crucial role in helping Next drive forward in a fast moving retail environment. You will need extensive experience in automation and manual testing to help to implement a range of test strategies across our web-based and mobile-based applications. In this role you will also work on various projects on our eCommerce platform and will play a big part pushing the department forward.

Using your expert knowledge around automation, you’ll write automated tests (including unit and integration), and test across multiple platforms. You’ll be building automation frameworks from scratch, working with different tools and automation architectures to drive continuous improvement of testing scripts ensuring optimal coverage. You’ll work with other disciplines including functional and non-functional testing, security, and API testing.

• Extensive experience with test automation e.g. Selenium, C#, Visual studio, NUnit are preferred
• Experience with other programming languages (e.g. Java, Python) will also be considered
• Knowledge of test automation frameworks that validate functionality at different levels of the technology stack
• Able to assess test coverage using automated tools
• Experience of developing and maintaining automation frameworks for Web/APIs/Microservices
• Knowledge of Agile techniques (e.g. BDD, TDD)
• Experience of creating and maintaining automated C# test suites
• Experience with BI or Database testing would be hugely advantageous

You are collaborative by default and are a team player. You are proactive in seeking out and evaluating emerging technologies and practices that can add value to the platform. Focus on sharing knowledge with the team (you’ll help the Analysts develop better, more relevant tests).

Technical skills required

• Appium
• C#
• .NET
• MS SQL
• Testing Web API’s
• Cucumber
• BDD
• ISTQB/ISEB

You’ll be doing all this from our Doncaster office on a hybrid basis each week. A fast-paced, encouraging and supportive environment in which everyone brings an energy and a commitment to delivering for our customers and their own careers. Bring your energy. Play to your strengths. Make things bigger and better than before. Let’s Take It On.

So if you’ve got solid automation testing skills gained in a technical environment, great team work experience, and knowledge in handling stakeholder needs and requests, this is the place for you – and your career.