The QA Automation Engineer will play a crucial role in ensuring product quality through automation testing and collaboration with development teams. Candidates should have a strong background in BDD, Agile methodologies, and scripting, particularly in Java. Experience with various testing frameworks and tools is essential. This position offers opportunities for growth in a dynamic environment. Our client is leader in providing cutting-edge Technology and they are looking for a QA Automation Engineer to join their Tech team with some experience in BDD, Automation Testing, Agile (Scrum) and scripting. Due to the nature of the work/client, you must have or be eligible to gain SC Clearance. What youll be doing: • Working with the product team to define the acceptance criteria and testing DOD for each story • Pairing with the developers to define and review the required tests that will address all features and functions of a product delivery at the unit and component layer • Performing exploratory testing at all levels • Working with the Product team to define tests throughout the product delivery into live • Automating tests where required. • Working collaboratively with developers to design and test stubs • Ensure the team define tests to validate NFR’s at the appropriate level • Ensuring traceability is maintained throughout the product delivery • Ensuring the team is aware of test progress and quality metrics, and that the team delivers them in a format this is consumable by those who have asked for them. • Raising the profile of quality throughout the product lifecycle • Working in an Agile team, you will be responsible for inputting to the design and build of automated tests to ensure adequate and effective test coverage • Provide test assurance of the user stories according to the defined acceptance test criteria; whilst working in a test-first environment. • Work closely with Software Engineers to deliver the test activities to meet the requirements, whilst contributing to effective agile delivery. • Able to participate in estimation activities and are encouraged to identify opportunities to maximise test benefit within the team. • Provide assurance at team retrospectives and planning sessions to ensure test best practice, continual improvements and appropriate standards are adhered to • Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, experience working in Agile delivery teams using TDD with Java and be able to work autonomously. • Experience of PACT frameworks that enable Consumer Driven Contract testing is desirable • Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and their importance in Automation Testing process • Exposure to command line and scripting languages for at least one OS (Windows or Linux) • Good coding skills (SOLID, DI, Design Patterns, etc.) • Able to unit test the framework built What experience youll bring: • A seasoned QA Automation Engineer • Experience and knowledge of API testing and the use of Postman • Cypress • Docker for running the Cypress container • Working with Gitlab for storage of all developed test automation • TDD Using Junit • SonarQube • Jenkins • Splunk • Gatling • Serenity • Cucumber • Selenium • Wiremock • Hamcrest • AWS Cloudwatch • Jira and Confluence Nice to have • Mocks and stubs • Advanced Devops knowledge • Deep Agile Development knowledge • Ability to lead projects and design test strategy Who we are: We’re a business with a global reach that empowers local teams, and we undertake hugely exciting work that is genuinely changing the world. Our advanced portfolio of consulting, applications, business process, cloud, and infrastructure services will allow you to achieve great things by working with brilliant colleagues, and clients, on exciting projects. Our inclusive work environment prioritises mutual respect, accountability, and continuous learning for all our people. This approach fosters collaboration, well-being, growth, and agility, leading to a more diverse, innovative, and competitive organisation. We are also proud to share that we have a range of Inclusion Networks such as: the Women’s Business Network, Cultural and Ethnicity Network, LGBTQ & Allies Network, Neurodiversity Network and the Parent Network.