Senior Automation Tester (Digital Delivery)

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Role: Senior Automation Tester (Digital Delivery)

Location: Newport (x4 a month)

Salary: Up to £57,000

About the Organization:

This modern organization thrives on leveraging cutting-edge IT services to drive innovation and operational efficiency. Serving both national and international customers, the team develops, improves, and maintains systems to deliver state-of-the-art solutions. Employees work on pioneering technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML), collaborating with experts across diverse domains. This is an opportunity to make impactful contributions while maintaining high-quality standards.

Role Overview:

As a Senior Test Engineer, you will be part of a multi-disciplinary squad focused on delivering enterprise-grade services, particularly with a focus on Power BI and data testing. You will work on innovative projects using modern delivery processes and technologies while being accountable for squad deliverables. The role involves diagnosing and resolving data processing issues, contributing to the technical strategy, and ensuring the delivery of robust IT services.

This role is ideal for individuals passionate about learning new technologies and methodologies. You will also have the chance to extend your skills beyond the core role and explore other technical domains.

Key Responsibilities:

Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to design, test, and deliver high-quality IT services.
Take ownership of assigned deliverables, ensuring timely and effective delivery.
Investigate, diagnose, and resolve system issues, particularly in data processing.
Develop and document test strategies, approaches, and procedures.
Contribute to the technical strategy for the department, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
Work with cloud technologies, focusing on enterprise-grade solutions with Power BI.
Support Agile delivery methods and integrate modern practices into the team's workflow.

Person Specification:

Proven experience contributing to the successful delivery of large-scale technical projects.
Hands-on experience with cloud technologies, particularly Azure.
Proficiency in data modelling and test documentation.
Expertise in testing front-end and back-end web services.
Experience with Agile delivery methodologies.
Working knowledge of Azure DevOps.

Technical Skills:

Experience with automation tools such as MS Visual Studio with C#, Selenium, BDD, SpecFlow, MSTest, RestSharp, and JavaScript.
Familiarity with non-functional testing tools like JMeter and Azure Load Test.
Proficiency in GitHub for version control and collaboration.
Strong understanding of architectural principles and design patterns.
Skilled in writing SQL queries to interact with databases.

Think this one's for you

If you think this Senior Test Engineer opportunity is for you then please apply online.

Yolk Public Sector & Not-for-Profit team works with organisations across the UK to fulfil their recruitment needs and to achieve their D&I objectives. We recruit temporary, contract and permanent hires for 1 off specialist needs or for volume campaigns. We support our applicants to navigate the public sector recruitment processes and secure their dream jobs.

Yolk Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and embraces diversity in our workforce. We employ the best people for the job at hand and actively encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, educational background, parental status, gender identity or any other protected characteristic. We champion and celebrate diversity at Yolk allowing our team to bring their whole selves to work

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