WHAT WILL BE YOUR ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES?
- Design and implement a robust test automation framework utilising diverse architectural approaches including Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD), Page Object Model (POM), Test-Driven Development (TDD), as well as modular and hybrid architectures.
- Design and execute testcases of new commercial off the shelf Codebeamer versions, testing of configurations and testing of specific plug-ins.
- Document and report test results
- Collaborate with team, system analysis, design, development and testing for their assigned technical products or applications within the context of an agile/DevOps delivery model.
- Interpretation of Testing Results and logging and tracking of Defects on JIRA.
- Automation of Frontend, Backend and Integration, performance and load testing and security testing using industry standard tools, fit for purpose.
- Integrate automation testing at various stages of the build and deploy pipeline for development, regression & release cycles. Working with the feature teams to build up disposable test environments.
- Overall management and maintenance and preparation of test data.
- Coordination between development and support environments.
- Track new/changed requirements and ensure these are addressed during automated and/or manual testing.
- Independently analyse, design as well as develop medium, complex testing components required for Automation.
- Perform continuous quality analysis and provide internal tools to help ensure that quality of the products we ship to customers are of the highest standard.
- Establish, implement, and evolve the formal QA processes to ensure that the group is using industry accepted standard methodologies.
- Design and develop the testing infrastructure i.e., testing tools, test frameworks, test reporting mechanisms to test software and services, applying NoOps principles.
- Integrate the testing infrastructure with the continuous integration and continuous deployment systems to ensure all the tools, services developed are accurately tested and meet the quality goals.
- Stay knowledgeable of new testing tools and strategies and evaluate the technologies to incorporate into the projects.
- Ability to work interdependently as well in a team and to submit deliverables on time and with excellent quality.
- Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills with the ability to communicate effectively (both verbally and in writing) with both technical and non-technical colleagues / users.
- Willingness to be part of an interdisciplinary DevOps team and to learn and take on tasks from other areas of the team
- Automate front end (Web), back end (API) and integration.
- Test data management.
- Performance, security and load testing.
- Evaluate test scenarios
- Execute manual tests
- Document test cases
- Write/maintain test scripts
- Document test results
- Report test results
Minimum Requirements:
WHICH QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE DO WE NEED FOR THE ROLE?
- Relevant IT Degree
- 5 years plus in a test automation role, more than 5 year’s total experience in software development
- ISTQB Certification (Advantageous)
ESSENTIAL SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:
- Testing and Ops Tools: Selenium, Cucumber, XRay, REST-Assured, Soap-UI, Postman GitHub Advanced Security, Burp Suite, Contrast Assess, Grafana k6, Karate, TestNG, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Logstash / Influx DB, Maven, JMeter or Gatling
- Languages: Java, JavaScript, Python (Django)
- CI/CD: GitHub Version Control, Build and Deployment Pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Databases: SQL Language
- Tools: Jira, Confluence
- Infrastructure: AZURE cloud
- Any additional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM) Charter
ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:
DevOps experience:
- Java Programming, Spring Boot
- API development
- Ops Service Management
- IAM
Business Analysis:
- Requirements gathering, elicitation, documentation.
- Business process modelling, data modelling
IT Architecture:
- Cloud Architecture, On-prem/hybrid
Cloud/Infrastructure:
- Ansible/Chef, Kubernetes, Terraform, FINOPS
Requirements management tools:
- Codebeamer
Desired Skills:
- Selenium
- Cucumber
- SQL
- Azure Language
- IAM
- Java Programming