Job Title: Automation Tester - API / GUI Testing Location: Remote/Cardiff - One day a month in the Cardiff office Salary/Rate: £517 a day Inside IR35 Start Date: 03/06/24 Job Type: Contract Quality Test Engineer - Automation This role is for a mid-senior level Quality Test Engineer with a background in both manual and automated testing. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to use their experience of automation using Postman/Playwright/Cypress and other tools while also contributing to the team's manual testing requirements. You should have good experience testing API's and GUI based Applications. Our client is also looking for good JavaScript/Typescript experience. Requirements Passionate collaborator with a focus on what is best for the team. API and GUI Application Testing JavaScript/Typescript experience Postman & Cypress or Playwright experience Capable and enthusiastic technologist, able to demonstrate a broad technical knowledge. Ability to clearly document test cases so that other team members can easily understand purposes, actions, and expected outcomes. Good quality assurance (QA) experience. Strong understanding of QA methodologies Strong knowledge of the software development process Ability to develop and execute automated tests using tools such as Postman (or able to demonstrate suitable transferrable skills). Experience in automating execution of test packs using CI/CD tools, such as GitHub Actions Working experience in Kanban or Scrum (or in lieu of this, clear understanding of the methodologies and enthusiasm to be part of such a team) Responsibilities Helping define and maintain a Test Strategy Creating automated tests for new features and maintaining existing automation packs Carrying out functional and regression testing, both manual and automated Contributing to the effective design of new features and solutions Investigating, promoting, and implementing improvements over existing automation frameworks Reporting and tracking progress bugs resolution Integrating existing and new automated regression tests into GitHub CI/CD Working as one team with the product owner, project management and other product development teams to deliver high quality products and enhancements. If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format. Disclaimer Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies. Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement.