Key skills
AWSAzureCloudDockerETLGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaJenkinsKafkaLinuxMavenMySQLPerlPythonSeleniumShell ScriptingSOAPShellTDDBDDGCPGoogle CloudGitLabJiraAgile
About this role
Role Overview
- Join a technical team and be responsible for the delivery of key test activities as assigned by the Lead
- Work within a team to support agile development efforts, and business stakeholders, to design, create and execute tests
- Review requirements and design documents to generate test cases including identifying test data and defining test environment needs
- Create and review testing strategies, plans and designs
- Create and review and optimizing testing processes
- Prepare and execute test scenarios (BDD/TDD) to test the application, network and infrastructure solution at all levels including non-functional
- Produce Test Reports and be able to report on interim progress
- Document test results including evidence of any testing defects
- Report progress, including risks & issues
- Investigating issues and working with the team to identify root cause and resolution
- Analyse data and test evidence from testing outcome to show compliance to requirements
Requirements
- A UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required
- Extensive testing experience working in data centric environments
- Project experience must include data migration, data pipeline (ETL) and streaming
- Gathering testing requirements
- developing Feature files and acceptance criteria with business stakeholders
- Extensive back-end testing experience
- Linux
- An understanding of Kafka/Docker(from a QA perspective)
- Experience working with Jira, Maven
- Experience with BDD and TDD
- Automation testing using any of custom test suites
- Fitnesse, Selenium and Soap UI
- Automated performance testing using Load Runner or similar (not mandatory)
- Experience in developing custom regression test suites using any of the programming languages Python, Perl, Shell scripting, Java, MySQL
- Experience of using Cucumber and creating test frameworks
- Experience of creating detailed test plan and test strategy.
- Liaising with the client test leads/managers and align the test strategy/plan created with the overall test plan/strategy and get the required sign offs of all the artefacts created
- Act as a single point of contact for any test related activities and communications related to the project
- Release Test planning/strategy for the changes to be released in prod
- Create Automation Test strategy evaluating the appropriate options from the available automation tools in the market with a view of creating e2e automation framework which could be integrated and scheduled with standard CI tools like Gitlab/Drone/Jenkins
- Experience in cloud based environments like AWS / Azure / GCP
Tech Stack
- AWS
- Azure
- Cloud
- Docker
- ETL
- Google Cloud Platform
- Java
- Jenkins
- Kafka
- Linux
- Maven
- MySQL
- Perl
- Python
- Selenium
- Shell Scripting
- SOAP
Benefits
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- company paid medical insurance
- life assurance
- pension scheme
- annual training allowance
- wellbeing allowance
- virtual GP
- Employee Assistance plan and more.