QA Automation Engineer - £55-70,000 per annum base + benefits – London (2 days per week in the office)
We are recruiting for a QA Automation Engineer to work on an established trading system development project with a large enterprise client, handling millions of dollars of traded value each day.
What you’ll be doing:
Building and maintaining automated test pipelines utilising Playwright tests
Analyse, understand, and review the products’ functional and non-functional requirements and identify gaps and inconsistencies
Develop automated tests for software validation, ensuring high quality of the system
As part of the QA team, take ownership of quality aspects of the system
Report and manage/triage existing defects, ensuring proper follow-up and actions are being taken by the team
Promote and adopt QA best practices, contributing to their continuous improvement
Contribute to the definition of test automation guidelines and standards in order to improve the software testing process
Requirements:
QA Engineering Experience (software testing experience).
At least three years experience writing automated tests for web and/or non-web based applications
Knowledge of Jest, Playwright and BDD tools (e.g. Cucumber)
Nice to have:
Experience of high volume, high availability, high stakes enterprise systems
Experience building and/or testing REST and/or web socket based APIs
Experience with trading applications (in production)
Performance testing experience with K6, Artillery or similar
5 days/per year for training
£1,000 annual allowance for training (up to 50% of this value can be used for you to buy workstation equipment to work from home)
In-person fun team events/team buildings every 3 months
Company equipment and onboarding kit
Annual bonus (dependent on company and personal performance)
Stock option plan
Birthday off
Generous employee referral programme
Seniority level Mid-Senior level
Employment type Full-time
Job function Analyst, Engineering, and Information Technology
Industries Software Development and IT Services and IT Consulting
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