Location: UK - Hatfield, UK - Milton Keynes, UK - Nottingham | Job-ID: 214113 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: Information Technology
Life on the team
Role title: Test Automation Engineer
Location: Hatfield, Nottingham or Milton Keynes (on-site full time)
Duration: Permanent
Additional Comments: You should already have, or the ability to undertake Security Clearance
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 minimum of 3-4 years’ experience, 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.
You’ll also get:
A competitive basic salary
1. The option to buy additional holiday
2. Health and wellbeing benefits including a virtual GP service
3. Exclusive discounts from our technology partners (HP, Dell, Apple etc)
4. And much more…….
If you think this could be you, and you’d enjoy working for a leading global technology business, then apply today!
What you’ll do
5. Develop scripted solutions to replace / supplement business processes.
6. Review requirement documentation and develop workflow-based automation.
7. Act as a SME for number of solutions developed by the team and support/assist end users to leverage complete benefit of the solution.
8. Continual delivery of new applications / features to a high quality by consistently reviewing other developers code and communicating / providing feedback when required.
9. 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.
10. Champion Automation within the organisation.
What you’ll need
11. Install and configure solutions for the new customer and assist internal and external users with support queries.
12. Participate with the development team in the design, development, coding, testing and debugging of applications/automations
13. Provide suggestions for process and product improvement
14. Oversee and ensure the quality code from other developers in the team
15. Understand the principles of good software design development and be able to communicate those to the team
16. Working to SLAs and deadlines
17. Prioritising and managing several tasks at a single time
18. Establishing a good working relationship with wider teams and customers alike
19. Keeping up to date with advancements in technology
20. Document writing / process creation
Key Requirements
Essential
21. 3+ years of support and / or development experience
22. A strong understanding of agile design principles
23. Working in Agile/Scrum environments
24. In depth knowledge of PowerShell
25. Basic understanding of C#, .NET
26. Experience of using a source code control system (Azure Devops, Git, Bitbucket)
27. Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure)
28. Confidence to challenge existing design practices and processes
29. Excellent decision making/problem solving skills
30. Ability to write unit tests and feature tests
31. Experience contributing to a DevOps environment (testing, CI, CD, automation)
32. Awareness of automation principles and market leading automation software
33. Holds current driving licence and able and willing to drive
Desirable
34. Omnissa Workspace One (previously VMware)
35. Inflectra Rapise
36. Microsoft Power Platform
37. Azure Devops
38. Azure Automation
39. Python, Ansible, Shell Scripting
40. Knowledge of ITIL, ISO 20000 & ISO 27000
Please note, this role requires SC clearance, so you'll need to meet the SC eligibility criteria to apply.