What you’ll be doing 

As part of your role, your responsibilities will include: 

• Involvement in user story definition and test scenarios: Collaborate with the team to write clear, upfront test scenarios and resolve outstanding questions. 
• Support with issue reproduction and resolution: Take ownership of reproducing and resolving software issues in collaboration with development teams. 
• Collaboration with developers and DevOps: Collaborate with developers to ensure proper unit test coverage and validate automation readiness. 
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Actively engage with teams like Product or Business Analysis to ensure QA needs are represented. 
• Agile/Scrum practices: Actively contribute to Agile practices by estimating tasks and aligning testing goals with sprint objectives. 
• Continuous Improvement Initiatives: Participate actively in retrospectives, providing ideas to enhance quality and process efficiency. 
• Risk Management and Impact Assessment: Assess and prioritize risks during test planning, providing input on potential impact. 
• Quality standards and defect prevention: Analyse defect trends and recommend process changes to mitigate recurring issues. 
• Customer Advocacy: Represent the customer perspective during testing, identifying gaps in expected functionality. 
• Automation creation and maintenance: Independently create and maintain automated test suites, ensuring efficient regression and feature coverage. 
• Automation strategies and tools: Begin implementing automation strategies using appropriate tools to streamline testing processes. 
• Tool and Framework Development: Configure and extend tools to better align with project requirements. 
• Metrics and performance reporting: Provide management with insights from test automation execution and coverage metrics. 
• Governance and QA principles: Begin contributing to discussions on process improvement and governance adjustments. 
• Technical leadership and mentoring: Mentor Junior QA Engineers, providing guidance on best practices in testing and automation. 
• This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities. You may be required to complete other reasonable duties to achieve business objectives. 

Essential skills you’ll bring to the table 

• A minimum of 3 – 5 years hands-on automation testing experience.  
• Computer Science related degree, diploma, or similar qualification.  
• Experience in working with agile teams and successfully delivering agile based software projects.  
• Utilizing dev tools like Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.  
• Comfortable with source control tools, like GitLab.  
• Ability to write integration and UI tests.  
• Experience using automation frameworks and tools like Playwright, Selenium (NOT IDE), Nunit.  
• Experience in using Typescript/JavaScript, C#, JSON.  
• API Testing using Postman or in code.  
• Experience with designing, creating, and maintaining automation frameworks. 
• Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle.  

Desirable skills you’ve got up your sleeve 

It would be great if you also have some of the following skills 

• Previous exposure to Microsoft Azure DevOps & VSTS   
• Experience with actively developing & managing Docker infrastructure   
• Experience with managing & creating OWASP Zap testing scripts for security testing   
• Exposure to Saucelabs or similar tools for mobile testing 
• ISTQB Advanced Level Certifications