The Role
Quality Assurance (QA) is responsible for ensuring testing strategies, plans and deliverables are executed for all applications and programmes of work within their domain.
Work includes:
•Designing and conducting testing procedures and frameworks to verify software and other technical products to ensure expected functional performance
•Investigating instances where software and technical products do not perform as expected
•Designing and conducting quality assurance practices to support business development activities
•Driving the adoption of recognised best practice and policy and contributes to the ongoing improvement of methodologies and assets for the business
•Working with their counterparts across the business to raise the standard of QA across the bank
•Recording of defects and the collation of metrics and KPI information for reporting purposes
•Testing disciplines include: Performance Testing, Test Automation, Test Processes, Testing Products
Your responsibilities:
Strong knowledge/experience of building Java based test automation Frameworks
Write, design, and execute automated tests by creating scripts that run testing functions automatically. Maximise test coverage for the most critical features of the system.
Suggest /Make framework enhancements to accommodate the scripting needs.
Knowledge and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, Acceptance Test Driven Development, Behavior Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Automated Testing
Setting up Continuous Integration of Automated Tests and running the regression pack
Experience in writing Automated Tests to test different layers of the Product i.e. UI, API, Database, etc
Work with QA Lead and Automation Lead to drive a standard testing approach across products
Ability to work and support within cross-functional team/feature teams across multiple products
Adherence to the Bank’s Performance monitoring standards
Essential skills/knowledge/experience:
Experience in implementing and leading Test Automation strategies in large IT organisations, ideally working in an Agile framework operating a CI/CD DevOps approach
Has a thorough understanding of TDD and BDD techniques including Gherkin, Cucumber syntax
Good hold on Java as a language to develop the Test Automation solution keeping reusability & coding best practices in mind. Good to have knowledge of Python or any another programming language
Understanding of Automated test design patterns – Page Object Model; Factory Design Pattern, FaçadePattern, Singleton Pattern
Significant experience with the following tools: - Selenium & Serenity Automation framework; Karate; ODBC – JDBC, TeamCity, JFrog Artifactory, Postman, RestAssured API, TestNG; Junit, Integrating test automation with Jenkins & Team City
Basic understanding of LoadRunner/Performance Centre; and JMeter;
Good working knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint online, O365, ServiceNow
Experience in working in a Cloud (Google, AWS, Azure etc) environment is highly desirable
Experience in defining Non-Functional Requirements and developing performance testing automation frameworks is highly desirable