Senior Test Engineer

Job Description

We are actively recruiting a Senior Software Test Engineer to help us on our mission of striving to make investing easier for all. You will carry out testing across a wide range of processes and systems - UI, API, back office (workflow) processes, 3rd party systems and integrations between all of these systems including end to end testing. You will be able to deliver tested, resilient and performant code against a fast-paced environment.

Your role will be pivotal in helping us achieve our mission by developing, shaping and iterating our customer applications. Alongside this you will also be working with other software testers within the team to assist the Team Lead in balancing workflow and delegating tasks when required.

You will be working on a product that will help shape the way that people invest in order to secure their future financial wellbeing. Working in a highly focused application development team you will be responsible for delivering against key company goals not just a set of features. You will have the opportunity to impact and shape the way we build products.

Working in a small agile team will allow you to be both nimble whilst at the same time delivering value to the business. Our focus is on individuals and delivery rather than ceremonies and complex process.

• Coaching / developing testers, reviewing their work (peer review), delegation of work and / or setting tasks / targets / objectives
• Carry out testing across a wide range of processes and systems - including UI, API, back office (workflow) processes, 3rd party systems and integrations between all of these systems including end to end testing
• Understand and interpret business, functional and technical requirements
• Understand AJ Bell products and processes, and relevant Financial Services legislation
• Have input into how solutions are developed and delivered using knowledge and expertise to help deliver the best possible outcome for the customer
• Execute test scripts and record results using software testing tools (JIRA / XRAY)
• Raising bugs in a timely manner with sufficient detail to be fixed / reproduced
• Working alongside Technical Leads and Testers from Project inception to create and implement appropriate test automation approach to complement the manual testing and overall project deliveries.
• Being involved in exciting new research projects and proof of concepts
• Supporting User Acceptance Testing and release to Production
• Knowledge of Agile working practices and ability to apply its practice

The below are the skills and tools that we use but we don't expect you to have knowledge of everything, more a desire to learn and adopt these.

• Experience of working as a Senior Tester and delegating work to other testers within the team and being a first point of contact if they require help or assistance.
• Full understanding of the testing lifecycle & methodologies
• Create and design automated test scripts using the BDD methodology
• Maintain and enhance the existing automation frameworks
• Carry out exploratory testing within an Agile development environment
• Develop test tools, and extend test frameworks and test environments
• Proven experience testing APIs using integration tools
• Knowledge of Cypress, Gherkin, Page Object Model, Pactum
  
  JS, Type Script
• Technical understanding of processes under test and relevant related processes and the ability to test components
• An understanding of test automation concepts and their application
• Experience in CI / CD using tools such as Jenkins, Git, AWS Code Pipeline
• Take an automation-first approach to test execution where possible
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate effectively with those in a technical role (e.g. developers) in addition to user

• Starting holiday entitlement of 26 days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service
• Holiday buy and sell scheme
• A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 7%
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Annual free share awards scheme
• Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
• Health Cash Plan – provided by Medicash
• Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan
• Free gym…