Test Automation Engineer - 12 month FTC

Brighton
8 months ago
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Location: Hybrid / Brighton (1-2 days a week in Brighton)
Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 (plus bonus, Excellent Pension and Employee Benefits)
12 month Fixed Term Contract

Skills: Playwright or ReqnRoll / Specflow, Selenium, TDD, SQL Server, C#.Net, Automated Testing

Join a busy and successful Test Team, working alongside Agile Dev Teams to deliver on a range of important projects. Our Client is a high profile Government body that provides essential services to protect peoples savings in the UK. If you are an experienced Automation Tester who can prioritise and a natural problem solver with a 'can-do' approach please get in touch!

Responsibilities

Lead and peer-review the work of other test team members. Lead on investigative work into problems and opportunities in existing processes.
Input into the test strategy team and advise on automation testing with recommendations for improvement
From scratch, develop the product and development teams' approach to testing - e.g. a framework for test driven development
Design and develop automated test scripts with a focus on SQL-based data validation, ensuring the accuracy of data flows and transformation.
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
Be the person on-point and overall responsible for the automation testing delivery within the Platform team.
Demonstrate knowledge of emerging tools and techniques.
Effectively work across different tools and software languages.Essential

5+ years automation and manual testing experience of web-based applications.
Playwright and ReqnRoll / Specflow knowledge and experience
Experienced in C#.Net and SQL Server.
Experience crafting automation tests and demonstrating test frameworks and pipelines, collaborating in any of the following: RESTful services, Message Queues, Relational Databases.
Experience of SQL scripting and proven capability of writing sophisticated queries to analyse problems, and interrogate data pipelines
Experience a range of testing methodologies and techniques including agile, with the ability to write test procedures, plans and report development/implementation

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