QA Automation Engineer - My client is a Global digital media and broadcasting company with an impressive portfolio of clients.

Their platform is built on micro services architecture which enables clients to pick and choose the features that are right for their circumstances. Offering a suite of products and supplying tools to move legacy/analogue systems to a digital first workflow. 

So if you want to work for a company that manage game changing tech solutions then this is the company for you!

With their new fun and friendly offices in Malaga City Centre and remote flexibility, great starting salary, career plan and amazing benefits to offer now is really a great time to join them.

Key Responsibilities

• Carries out automated and manual testing on projects and engagements, under the guidance of the Technical Architect / Leads, may alternatively lead testing on a small project
• Responsible for feature file and step definition provision, execution, defect logging, tracking and reporting on the projects they are assigned to
• Responsible for attending any testing meetings of the project, including, amongst others sprint planning, daily scrum meetings, showcases and retrospectives, or standard weekly project meetings
• Responsible for alerting Automation Lead or Project Manager to any issues on the project, for example: showstopper defects, changes to timescales
• Assisting with defining the test outline for the project including identification of the environments, toolsets and kit needed for the test

You will be expected to:

• Inputs to the testing required for a project including, inputting to test plans, writing and executing feature files and step definitions, including complex cases, assisting with environment and kit identification, recording defects, reporting, identifying risks

• Contributing to the SDLC from analysis to acceptance to ensure quality is maintained throughout the continuous delivery pipeline
• Championing quality through identifying areas of weakness within their applications
• Automating tests to run in their continuous delivery pipeline
• Developing and maintaining their test automation framework.

REQUIREMENTS

Knowledge

• Quality Assurance Management (Principles, methods, techniques and tools for the effective management of testing from initiation through to implementation for all types of testing but most specifically for automation testing)
• Automation Strategies: Principles, methods and techniques for defining automation test strategies, including implementing frameworks, technical approach
• Progress Reporting: Methods and techniques for reporting progress against an agreed plan
• Project Management Methodologies: Understanding of how QA should function when working on Projects using both waterfall and agile methodologies. Involvement in both project types, understands resource requirements, changed focus and timings between two
• Good understanding of methods, techniques and tools for the analysis, assessment and management of testing risk
• Understanding of REST services and experience testing APIs
• Aware of version control, Progress Reporting, Quality Assurance Management

• Good comprehension of test and defect management

• Deep understanding the software development lifecycle and key development technologies with a sound familiarisation of at least one methodology (Agile for preference)

• Desirable experience of working within a DevOps team
• Experience with Continuous Integration and/or Delivery

Skills

• Ability to use Quality Management Tools: Tools used to assist with test execution and test planning such as JIRA

• Considerable knowledge of automation techniques and their application
• Understanding of testing methodologies (Integration Testing, System Testing, UAT, etc.)

• Commercial experience automating software tests with Cucumber or similar tool. Familiar with Cucumber and Behavior Driven Development

• Experience testing RESTful APIs

• Defect management and write up, test execution and test toolsets and techniques
• Excellent communication skills in fluent English, both written and verbal
• Ability to both work well within a team and independently

• Programming skills - Python
• Good comprehension of test and defect management
• Source control
• Version control

Behaviours

• Good communication and inter-personal skills

• Desire to deliver quality assured, highly scalable feature

• Keen to learn new skills and keep up to date with technological developments
• Proactive and forward thinking
• Quality minded
• Drives for continuous improvement

TECNOLOGIES

• Cucumber
• Ruby
• REST API
• Postman
• Git
• AWS Knowledge (Lambda, serverless concepts)
• Rest Assured
• WireMock
• UI testing (Selenium / Cypress / similar)