Job Description

Job title: Senior Automation Engineer

Location: Edinburgh/Remote

Role type: Permanent

Hours: 35 hours per week

Who are 2i?

We are a leading software testing and quality assurance consultancy. Since our inception in 2005, we have matured into a thought-leading business that can, and does, support organisations of any sector or size. We have over 200 colleagues across the UK, we work hybrid and have offices across Edinburgh (our Head Office), Glasgow, the Midlands and London.

We provide a combination of high-level consultancy services that identify software delivery risks for clients across different sectors and size. We implement the processes, tools and skills to deliver projects that focus on providing the client with certainty of delivery.

What will your day job look like?

As the Senior QA Engineer, you will work collaboratively to define, develop, maintain and deliver Software testing requirements for our clients programme of work. In addition to delivery responsibilities, the QA Test Lead will also act as an advocate for QA best practices and lead initiatives to improve test processes, extend the use of tools/frameworks (where appropriate) and support the development of test team members.

Your Responsibilities

• Responsible for initiating and ensuring the technical and delivery-facing leadership for all aspects of QA engineering at portfolio level
• Initiating 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
• Initiating the use and reuse of a broad range of tools, including open source and cloud based
• Building QAT service capability and coaching others to help improve QAT-wide practices to support the digital service standard, often working as part of a multi-disciplinary team focused on user needs and user centred design

About You

• Experienced in Agile Delivery
• Experience in Manual Testing
• Experienced in Delivering QA practices –
  • Risk based testing analytical techniques.
  • Test Analysis and Design
  • Knowledge and experience of working with Open Source tools including Cypress/Javascript, Selenium, Github/Gitlab, Postman, K6, Jmeter
  • Automated Framework Creation
• Experienced working with Pipeline Technologies
• Experience in Cloud Technology
• Experience of automating integration tests
• Experienced in working with Jira & Confluence
• Experience working quickly to deliver Proof of Concept
• Working as part of multi-disciplinary teams

What if you are a partial fit?

We value team players who are keen to develop and play their part in an ambitious and growing company. We can offer meaningful learning and development opportunities to match ambition and align skills more closely with the job description.

What is it like to work for us?

We are a professional business, so we treat people as professionals and give them the autonomy to do their job. If something isn’t working tell us; we empower our people to drive change.

Our core values are: inclusivity, learning, openness and sharing and we nurture these in our day-to-day.

We are passionate about Diversity and Inclusion. We celebrate difference and believe it is key to our success.

What we offer you

We unlock our people’s full potential. We do this by fostering trust, investing in them and providing autonomy. We offer meaningful learning and development to support this.

We reward our people. We offer a discretionary company and personal performance bonus and annual salary review aligned to the overall annual performance of the business. We have a range of benefits to reward people. We also have a range of events to celebrate success.

We prioritise health and wellbeing. We have a range of engagement events and initiatives to prioritise this. You can join our Health & Wellbeing programme where you will find advice on how to maintain a healthy mind and body.

We are passionate about giving back to the community. To give a flavour of what we do, each year our people select their ‘Charity of the Year’ that we support and fundraise for.

And much more…

Still reading? Apply now and a member of our team will be in touch to discuss next steps.