Automation Test Engineer
--Manchester, UK--
JOB DESCRIPTION
Portside Consulting is proud to partner with a leading consulting, technology, and digital transformation firm headquartered in Manchester, UK.
We are currently recruiting a highly skilled Position Name who is ready and willing to relocate to the UK to join their dynamic and innovative team.
RESPONSIBILITIES & EXPERIENCE
- Experience in creating effective automation test strategies and plans.
- Experience in test automation using at least two proprietary or Open Source tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, Tricentis Tosca, or Smart Bear Test Complete
- Experience creating or adapting automation frameworks
- Familiarity with at least one OOP language (Java, Python, C# etc.)
- Creating test scripts within a BDD environment using Cucumber, SpecFlow or similar
- Ability to manage and maintain versions of test assets in GIT and other repositories
- Experience of working in Agile / DevOps environments
- Hands on experience of various test types (manual and automation) such as Functional, API, web and mobility
- Experience with CI / CD Pipelines using Jenkins (Azure DevOps, or similar) and integrating automation assets into the pipeline
- Experience of managing a team and stakeholders at all levels
- Ability to collaborate with developers, testers, analysts, architects, and other members across the organisation.
- ISEB / ISTQB or equivalent certification in testing at foundation level or above (or
willingness to obtain an ISTQB Foundation, soon after joining us, which we will cover the
cost of the exam)
SKILLS
- Minimum of 5 years' experience in the industry.
- OOP language such as Java, Python, C#
- Functional Test tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, Tricentis Tosca, or SmartBear TestComplete Test management tools such as Jira, TFS, ALM
- Experience of working in waterfall, agile and DevOps environments
- Other tooling such as Postman. Ready API, Soap UI
- Data masking and data subsetting
- BDD approaches using Cucumber or SpecFlow