Senior Automation Test Analyst

ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Automation Test Analyst on a hybrid/remote basis, on an initial 12 month contract (with potential extensions) on a rate of c.£400-£450/day outside of IR35 (based on experience).

The Role:

Our client is looking for a candidate to provide functional and automation testing expertise and support to various teams and projects across the business. The ideal candidate must be a complete self-starter with the experience to create and deliver functional and automation test strategies/solutions and frameworks to meet project requirements and provide support and insight to the Test Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Assist the Test Manager to build functional and automation test capability and frameworks and provide a clear direction on the test strategy
• Work with the Test Manager and test teams across the business to achieve functional and automation testing goals across multiple projects
• Working with SMEs, BAs, POs and dev to capture business processes followed by the design and build of automated solutions and frameworks across multiple applications
• Create and maintain automated regression/smoke test packs for various applications with appropriate version control in place
• Provide test leadership on a given project/product
• Produce high quality test collateral in line with the Agile methodology – test plans, Test evidence and completion reports
• Daily automated test execution across a range of projects and infrastructures
• Daily functional test execution across a range of projects and infrastructures
• Provide meaningful and accurate reporting against pass/fail criteria
• Root Cause analysis of failures and rapid resolution of issues
• Ability to update at daily stand ups and contribute in other delivery ceremonies
• Improve Functional & Automation testing best practices
• Defect recording and management

Essential Experience:

• Extensive knowledge of using testing tools i.e. JIRA, ALM, Azure, Zepher etc
• Ability to automate front web based end to end systems, interfaces, cross browser/device, mobile apps and other applications
• Comprehensive knowledge of automated testing tools i.e. Selenium, Webdriver I/O, Cypress
• Automated Test Reporting via Cucumber
• Familiarity with version control and release software i.e. GIT, Subversion, Azure DevOps, Jenkins or team city
• Proven track record of automation within an Agile framework i.e. DevOps, CI/CD or FDD
• Aptitude to working with various languages and frameworks including C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, .NET, SQL, VBA/VBScript, shell scripting
• Detailed understanding of software architectures - SOA, IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, Client Server and experience of testing Cloud and Azure based solutions
• Understanding testing methodologies i.e. Agile (BDD,TDD, ATDD), Kanban, Waterfall and V-Model
• Device emulation and API testing via Postman
• ISEB/ISTQB Foundation
• Experience in working with multiple software delivery/ testing methodologies
• Minimum 5-8 years automation testing experience on large integration and migration projects/programmes in a technical test capacity
• Knowledge or appreciation of various testing and lifecycle management tools
• Strong stakeholder management & communication skills
• Previous experience of working within the public sector