Test Automation Engineer

Location:
Home Based with occasional travel to customer site, (proximity to London or Bristol preferred)

Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 + comprehensive range of Employee Benefits

Skills:
** You MUST hold current SC cleared status**, 5+ years Test Automation, (using Selenium, Cucumber, Specflow), and some C#

This role joins a leading global IT solutions provider, delivering IT solutions into high profile UK Government organisations. Reporting to the Test Practice Lead, your role will include:

• The successful delivery of testing for projects covering all levels of testing including manual and automation/functional and non-functional testing.
• Responsibility for allocated test deliverables, performing analysis activities during test preparation and test execution including recording the results and reporting issues through the agreed defect management process.
• Manage the production, quality and accuracy of all relevant test artefacts.
• Provide Validation and verification of test inputs, functional specifications, requirements etc. for testability, ambiguity and completeness
• Produce test artefacts, Test Cases, Expected Results, Actual Results, Defects, Data, Defect Re-tests and Test Outcome Reports

• 5+ years test Automation experience
• Active SC Clearance
• Strong well developed testing skills and in-depth knowledge of current testing techniques across the test phases (System, System Integration, Regression, UAT, etc)
• Strong experience and knowledge of testing lifecycle and approaches (e.g. functional / non-functional / automation) and of automation testing using technologies such as Selenium, Cucumber, Spec Flow).
• Residence near to either Bristol or London for the occasional on-site work
• C# development skills for the purpose of software testing.
• Strong communication and team skills
• Experience and understanding of waterfall, agile and hybrid development methodologies.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical communities and "non-technical" senior management (internally and externally).