Automation Tester
* Job Type: Fixed Term Contract (16 months)
* Location: Newport (hybrid, 20% of your working days a month in-office)
* Salary: £36,736 - £46,743
Our client is seeking an Automation Tester to join their dynamic team. This role involves writing, executing, and maintaining both functional and non-functional automated UI and API tests/suites. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, coding, testing, maintaining, and documenting robust, scalable, and reusable solutions that deliver an exceptional user experience, aligned with DevOps best practices.
Day-to-day of the role:
* Write, execute, and maintain automated UI and API tests/suites aligned against acceptance criteria to support our continuous deployment environment.
* Design, code, test, maintain, and document solutions that enhance user experience using DevOps best practices.
* Proactively investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, evaluate findings, and communicate recommendations to stakeholders.
* Collaborate closely with software developers to understand the code base and ensure adequate test coverage at the unit level.
* Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver user-focused and successful digital services, ensuring adherence to governance standards.
* Identify defects, incidents, risks, and issues in accordance with IPO standards.
* Explore innovative ways to solve problems, adopting a fail-fast approach to deliver required functionality.
* Mentor colleagues in automation/test standards and business processes following agreed governance and best practices.
* Assist in implementing toolkits and APIs for integration, performance optimisation, security, and scalability.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
* Proven experience in delivering technical solutions.
* Familiarity with modern delivery models such as Scrum and Agile.
* Understanding of DevOps principles.
* Strong knowledge of mainstream testing frameworks/libraries such as Selenium WebDriver, BDD SpecFlow, and RestSharp.
* Experience in a mainstream development language.
* Proficiency in Web Services, REST.
* Ability to write SQL statements.
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