Location: UK - Hatfield, UK - Nottingham, UK - Milton Keynes | Job-ID: 214113 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: Information Technology
Life on the team
Role title: Automation Test Engineer
Location: Hatfield, Nottingham or Milton Keynes (on-site 5 days per week)
Duration: Permanent
Additional Comments: You should already have Security Clearance, or the ability to undertake this. This role will be based onsite 5 days per week
Computacenter is looking for an experienced Test Automation Engineer who will join our Test & Validation Management team supporting major customers. The role will be UK based to provide support to secure customers.
The ideal candidate will have a solid background in Automation testing, ideally with a track record of developing scripted solutions for IT Operational Teams within PowerShell. You will be a key member of the team, developing and maintaining the automation codebase, responsible for leading the support of tools/automations for key customers, automating existing test scenarios to deliver solutions for both internal and customer systems. You should be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, work within an agile framework and have strong organisation and problem-solving skills, whilst also having the ability to assess and prioritise tasks without close supervision.
What you’ll do
* Develop scripted solutions to replace / supplement business processes.
* Review requirement documentation and develop workflow-based automation.
* Act as a SME for number of solutions developed by the team and support/assist end users to leverage complete benefit of the solution.
* Continual delivery of new applications / features to a high quality by consistently reviewing other developers code and communicating / providing feedback when required.
* Stakeholder engagement will be key, and you will establish and maintain good relationships with the stakeholders both internally and in the customer organisation, and the various service delivery teams within Computacenter.
* Champion Automation within the organisation.
* Install and configure solutions for the new customer and assist internal and external users with support queries.
* Participate with the development team in the design, development, coding, testing and debugging of applications/automations
* Provide suggestions for process and product improvement
* Oversee and ensure the quality code from other developers in the team
* Understand the principles of good software design development and be able to communicate those to the team
* Working to SLAs and deadlines
* Prioritising and managing several tasks at a single time
* Keeping up to date with advancements in technology
* Document writing / process creation
What you will need
* Good overall IT support and / or development experience
* A good understanding of agile design principles
* Working in Agile/Scrum environments
* In depth knowledge of PowerShell
* Basic understanding of C#, .NET
* Experience of using a source code control system (Azure Devops, Git, Bitbucket)
* Cloud Platforms (AWS or Azure)
* Confidence to challenge existing design practices and processes
* Excellent decision making/problem solving skills
* Ability to write unit tests and feature tests
* Experience contributing to a DevOps environment (testing, CI, CD, automation)
* Awareness of automation principles and market leading automation software
Please note, this role requires SC clearance, so you'll need to meet the SC eligibility criteria to apply.
About us
With over 20,000 employees across the globe, we work at the heart of digitisation, advising organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technology, and helping our customers to source, transform and manage their technology infrastructure in over 70 countries. We deliver digital technology to some of the world’s greatest organisations, driving digital transformation, enabling people and their business.
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