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Our client is leader in providing cutting-edge Technology and they are looking for a QA Automation Engineer to join their Tech team with some experience in BDD, Automation Testing, Agile (Scrum) and scripting.
Due to the nature of the work/client, you must have or be eligible to gain SC Clearance.
What you'll be doing:
- Working with the product team to define the acceptance criteria and testing DOD for each story
- Pairing with the developers to define and review the required tests that will address all features and functions of a product delivery at the unit and component layer
- Performing exploratory testing at all levels
- Working with the Product team to define tests throughout the product delivery into live
- Automating tests where required.
- Working collaboratively with developers to design and test stubs
- Ensure the team define tests to validate NFR’s at the appropriate level
- Ensuring traceability is maintained throughout the product delivery
- Ensuring the team is aware of test progress and quality metrics, and that the team delivers them in a format this is consumable by those who have asked for them.
- Raising the profile of quality throughout the product lifecycle
- Working in an Agile team, you will be responsible for inputting to the design and build of automated tests to ensure adequate and effective test coverage
- Provide test assurance of the user stories according to the defined acceptance test criteria; whilst working in a test-first environment.
- Work closely with Software Engineers to deliver the test activities to meet the requirements, whilst contributing to effective agile delivery.
- Able to participate in estimation activities and are encouraged to identify opportunities to maximise test benefit within the team.
- Provide assurance at team retrospectives and planning sessions to ensure test best practice, continual improvements and appropriate standards are adhered to
- Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, experience working in Agile delivery teams using TDD with Java and be able to work autonomously.
- Experience of PACT frameworks that enable Consumer Driven Contract testing is desirable
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and their importance in Automation Testing process
- Exposure to command line and scripting languages for at least one OS (Windows or Linux)
- Good coding skills (SOLID, DI, Design Patterns, etc.)
- Able to unit test the framework built
What experience you'll bring:
- A seasoned QA Automation Engineer
- Experience and knowledge of API testing and the use of Postman
- Cypress
- Docker for running the Cypress container
- Working with Gitlab for storage of all developed test automation
- TDD Using Junit
- SonarQube
- Jenkins
- Splunk
- Gatling
- Serenity
- Cucumber
- Selenium
- Wiremock
- Hamcrest
- AWS Cloudwatch
- Jira and Confluence
Nice to have
- Mocks and stubs
- Advanced Devops knowledge
- Deep Agile Development knowledge
- Ability to lead projects and design test strategy
Who we are:
We’re a business with a global reach that empowers local teams, and we undertake hugely exciting work that is genuinely changing the world. Our advanced portfolio of consulting, applications, business process, cloud, and infrastructure services will allow you to achieve great things by working with brilliant colleagues, and clients, on exciting projects.
Our inclusive work environment prioritises mutual respect, accountability, and continuous learning for all our people. This approach fosters collaboration, well-being, growth, and agility, leading to a more diverse, innovative, and competitive organisation. We are also proud to share that we have a range of Inclusion Networks such as: the Women’s Business Network, Cultural and Ethnicity Network, LGBTQ+ & Allies Network, Neurodiversity Network and the Parent Network.
For more information on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion please click here: Creating Inclusion Together at NTT DATA UK | NTT DATA
what we'll offer you:
We offer a range of tailored benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. Our Learning and Development team ensure that there are continuous growth and development opportunities for our people. We also offer the opportunity to have flexible work options.
You can find more information about NTT DATA UK & Ireland here: https://uk.nttdata.com/
We are an equal opportunities employer. We believe in the fair treatment of all our employees and commit to promoting equity and diversity in our employment practices. We are also a proud Disability Confident Committed Employer - we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively collaborate with individuals who have disabilities and long-term health conditions which have an effect on their ability to do normal daily activities, ensuring that barriers are eliminated when it comes to employment opportunities. In line with our commitment, we guarantee an interview to applicants who declare to us, during the application process, that they have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the role. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know. Join us in building a truly diverse and empowered team.
Service Line Manager
Shane is a QA Transformation leader with over 20 years’ experience driving standardisation, simplification, reuse, productisation and maturity whilst ensuring QA targets are met through applying/adapting various industry standard techniques and frameworks. Proven ability to lead large scale complex Strategic Transformation programmes to time, cost & Quality through an approach that fosters collaboration, adaptability and innovation (AI, IOT, Machine Learning, Biometrics) with a focus on people, Technology and processes.
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“Upon joining the NTT DATA UK family, you will experience a culturally diverse organisation living our values of Clients First, Teamwork and Foresight as we partner with our customers every day.
At NTT DATA UK, we are proud to support and invest in our people. We offer a variety of rewarding career paths and opportunities to develop professionally - with access to cutting edge innovation.”
Niccolo Spataro, CEO, NTT DATA UK
