FDO Consulting Limited | Lead/Senior Automation Tester, Angular and C#, Home Based

FDO Consulting Limited

London

1 year ago

Applications closed

Job Description

Senior/Lead Test Automation Engineer, Home based but with travel to the London office when required. Must have designed and developed automation testing strategies. Required technical skills - C#, Azure, Angular, Selenium, APIs, Postman, Swagger. £ 60000 - 70000 + bonus + benefits

Strong knowledge of the following technical skills are required for this role and must be clear and current on your CV - C#, Angular, Azure, UI Test Automation with Selenium, Web Service and API testing with Postman and SoapUI, Swagger, JSON, SQL and XML. Knowledge of or an interest in Machine Learning an advantage.

Financial service sector client is looking for a Senior QA Engineer/Automation engineer who will be responsible for the end to end quality assurance for one of their key products. The product is a complex financial system and release quality, accuracy of outputs and speed to delivery are all key. The product is currently manually tested and you will be responsible to propose, design and implement an automation test strategy. You must have previously built and implemented a number of automation strategies.

Key accountabilities include -

Design and develop automated testing strategies and implement them in industry standard frameworks.
Executive manual and automated tests and analyse results, defects, etc.
Work with the broader testing team across the business.
Act as the SME for the product in terms of testing.
Make informed and independent decisions.

Experience Required -

Proven experience in a similar senior role (this is a stand alone role so you must have experience at this level).
Significant experience of building test frameworks and building automation scripts.
Proven experience of designing and implementing test plans.
A good understanding of end to end architectures.
Worked in regulated environment - ideally financial services.
Technical knowledge required -
Strong knowledge working in a C# and Azure environment.
Strong knowledge of Angular.
Strong knowledge of UI Test Automation using Selenium.
Strong Web Services and API testing with excellent knowledge of Postman and SoapUI.
Good knowledge of Open API (Swagger).
Strong JSON and XML (able to create and edit API requests).
Strong SQL querying skills.

This is an excellent role for a candidate who wants to play a lead role on a key product. You will own the products test automation by designing and building the test strategy and frameworks and moving the testing (where possible) from manual to automated. This is a stand-alone role so candidates can only be considered if they have proven experience in a similar position.

Salary is likely to be in the range £ 60000 - 70000 + bonus + benefits. The role is home based with travel to the London office when required.

If you have all of the skills listed above and are interested in this role please send your CV for a full brief.

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