QA Resource

As a QAEngineeryou will be expected to work at one of ourclientsand perform high qualityfunctional and non-functional testingoncomplexsystems. You must be familiar with Agile practices and tools and able to work in fast paced CI/CD environment. You will be proactive and always look for ways to improve the automated tests to makethemmore efficient.

Youcanwork closely with developers,devopsengineers and business stakeholders(operations, incidentmanagementand product management) to understand the positive and negative impact software can have on end usersand provideaccurateupdates on the progress and outcomesof testing.

• Perform functional and non-functional (performance, accessibility, security, operational/user acceptance) testing, working within an Agile team.
• Develop and maintain test automation solutions and scripts, promoting best practices within the development team
• Develop and maintain performance/load/stress testing solutions using standard or open‑source tools
• Resolve problems and blockers as they occur and help unlock the progress of testing
• Collaborate, communicate & work effectively with geographically distributed cross‑functional teams
• Defect Management, ensuring that defects are effectively triaged and managed until resolution
• Promote the value of solid testing practices to all delivery stakeholders and influence adoption of best practice

• Experience with devising TDD/BDD or Acceptance Test Driven Development strategies using a range of tools/frameworks, ensuring test coverage and execution is in line with the project, programme or portfolio Test Strategy and Business Risk Objectives.
• Strong Java coding experience and knowledge of automated test frameworks e.g. Serenity, Rest Assured
• Strong experience using API testing tools, ideally Postman
• Strong experience with Selenium, C# spec
  
  Flow, BDD framework
• Experience with integrating testing as part of the Secure‑SDLC and CI/CD tooling in an Dev Sec Ops  environment using:
  Git Hub, Jenkins, Git Lab SaaS, Artifactory, Nexus etc.
• Experience with testing citizen facing services
• Experience with testing highly scalable, distributed, cloud native (PaaS/FaaS) and microservice orientated architecture applications leveraging containerisation, container orchestration, service mesh, messaging, proxies, API, persistent and ephemera ls storage etc.
• Experience using formal Test Management tools (Jira/Confluence, ALM).
• Good awareness of Application Lifecycle Management and IT Service Management using tools such as Splunk, Grafana and Service Now.
• Must be eligible for SC Clearance

• Experience of using JavaScript Automation Frameworks such as WebdriverIO, Playwright
• Experience of running stress/load testing using K6 and Grafana or other/similar open‑source tools.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure Portal
• ISEB Certification in Software Testing

• Experience with data migration projects
• Experience working in the Public Sector

• Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
• Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
• Strong, inspiring and thought‑provoking leadership
• A supportive and collaborative environment.

• Development access to Linked In Learning, a management development programme and training
• Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme
• Social – Breakfast Tuesdays, Thirsty Thursdays and Pizza on the last Thursday of each month as well as commitment to charitable causes
• Time off 25 days a year
• Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
• Discretionary Company Bonus based on company and individual performance
• Life Assurance of 4 times base salary
• Private Medical Insurance which is non‑contributory (spouse and dependants included)
• Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non‑contributory (spouse and dependants included)