Quality Assurance Engineer

QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER - OUTSIDE IR35 - 12 MONTH CONTRACT

One of Loriens leading Public Sector Clients are looking for a highly skilled Quality Assurance Engineer to join their team on an initial 12 month contract.

Our Client requires an experienced Quality Assurance Engineer to join their Change & Digital Innovation function. The candidate will be required 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.

Responsibilities:

• Build & maintain functional and automation test/QA capability and frameworks across the organisation.
• Work within QA teams across the business and team to achieve functional and automation testing goals across multiple projects.
• Collaborating with SMEs, BAs, POs and dev to capture business processes followed by 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 QA expertise 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
• Cement QA principles and techniques early with the software delivery process
• Collaboration with Developers around "shifting testing left"
• Defect recording and management

Essential Skills:

• 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 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
• 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

Experience:

• ISEB/ISTQB Foundation
• Experience in working with multiple software delivery/QA methodologies
• Minimum 5 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

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.