Location: Remote Working with meetings in London
MUST be capable of securing SC Clearance
Bring your Software Testing expertise to us and in return we’ll give you an amazing career with growth and learning opportunities.
The Day Job
As the Senior QA Engineer you will be responsible for developing and executing QA plans and supporting the strategic approach. Technical experts as well as responsible for managing
teams and coaching others.
Key responsibilities
- Responsible for enabling the delivery of all aspects of QA engineering at project and programme level.
- Enabling test automation and test engineering practices, including aspects of ‘software development in test’.
- Reading, writing and debugging code in complex programs and supporting the refactoring of existing test frameworks – supporting other members of the team to do the same.
- Enabling the use and reuse of a broad range of tools, including open source and cloud based. Ensuring and applying the delivery of test engineering, typically using agile and CI/CD methods including assisting the teams to develop user stories and acceptance criteria related to the overall test engineering approach, typically deploying Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
- Advising on QA engineering practices to support the digital service standard, often working as part of a multi-disciplinary team focused on user needs and user centred design.
Key Skills
- Extensive hands on test experience within Agile projects, with a strong understanding of the Sprint, CI and release testing lifecycles.
- Extensive automation experience and the ability to specify, to develop and to implement automation frameworks and advice on industry best practice.
- Experience of BDD and Test-driven development (TDD).
- Pro-active in managing test dependencies, coordinating test coverage and execution.
- Knowledge and experience of working with Open Source tools and Cloud based services including Cucumber, Gherkin, Jasmine, Cypress, WebDriver, Jenkins/Drone/Gitlab and REST libraries (RESTAssured, Karate, etc).
- Experience of containerised techniques, using Docker, and Cloud Based Hosting.
- Demonstrable experience of working with micro service architectures and data services.
- Defining and advising on test scope, approach, risks and assumptions across DevOps and agile testing.
- Ability to work with all relevant parties (project, supplier technical teams, internal technical teams, service delivery, and so forth) to ensure an effective test service is maintained throughout the Agile delivery lifecycle.
- Extensive performance engineering experience with the ability to specify, develop and deliver performance test solutions that will also integrate with CI solutions.
What 2i can offer you
In return 2i can offer a highly competitive day rate whilst working in an innovative environment and working amongst skilled professionals.
We also encourage our employee's to have fun, so we have regular nights out – either as a project team or as a group.
What to do next: Please apply via the application link below. Once your application has been received a representative from the 2i Recruitment team will review your profile and will get in touch with you regarding the next steps.