Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer 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 Quality Assurance (QA) 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 QA strategies/solutions and frameworks to meet project requirements and provide support and insight to the QA Lead.

Responsibilities:

• Assist the QA Lead to build functional and automation test/QA capability and frameworks and provide a clear direction on the QA strategy
• Work with the QA Lead and QA 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 across CDI with appropriate version control in place
• Provide QA 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 validation 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 QA best practices
• Cement QA principles and techniques early with the software delivery process
• Collaboration with Developers around “shifting testing left”
• Defect recording and management

Essential Experience:

• Extensive knowledge of using testing/QA tools i.e. JIRA, ALM, Azure, Dev Ops, 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 toolsi.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 validating Cloud and Azure based solutions
• Understanding testing & QA methodologies i.e. Agile (BDD,TDD, ATDD), Kanban, Waterfall and V-Model
• Previous experience of MS Dynamics, MS Power Apps and the Power Platform
• Device emulation and API validation via Postman
• ISEB/ISTQB Foundation
• Experience in working with multiple software delivery/QA methodologies
• Minimum 5-8 years automation testing/QA experience on large integration and migration projects/programmes in a technical test capacity
• Knowledge or appreciation of various testing/QA and lifecycle management tools
• Strong stakeholder management & communication skills
• Previous experience of working within the public sector