QA Engineer

As a QA Engineer, you will work at one of our clients and perform high-quality functional and non-functional testing on complex systems. You must be familiar with Agile practices and tools and be able to thrive in a fast-paced CI/CD environment. You will be proactive, always seeking ways to improve automated tests for greater efficiency.

You will collaborate closely with developers, DevOps engineers, and business stakeholders (operations, incident management, and product management) to understand the impact of software on end users and provide accurate updates on testing progress and outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Perform functional and non-functional testing (performance, accessibility, security, operational/user acceptance) within an Agile team.
• Develop and maintain test automation solutions and scripts, promoting best practices within the development team.
• Develop and maintain performance/load/stress testing solutions using standard or open-source tools.
• Resolve problems and blockers as they arise, helping to accelerate testing progress.
• Collaborate, communicate, and work effectively with geographically distributed cross-functional teams.
• Manage defects, ensuring they are effectively triaged and resolved.
• Promote the value of solid testing practices to all stakeholders and influence adoption of best practices.

Requirements:

• Experience with TDD/BDD or Acceptance Test Driven Development strategies using various tools/frameworks, ensuring test coverage and execution align with project, program, or portfolio Test Strategy and Business Risk Objectives.
• Strong Java coding experience and knowledge of automated test frameworks such as Serenity and RestAssured.
• Strong experience using API testing tools, ideally Postman.
• Experience integrating testing into the Secure-SDLC and CI/CD tooling in a DevSecOps environment using tools like GitHub, Jenkins, GitLab SaaS, Artifactory, and Nexus.
• Experience testing citizen-facing services.
• Experience testing highly scalable, distributed, cloud-native (PaaS/FaaS) and microservice-oriented applications leveraging containerization, container orchestration, service mesh, messaging, proxies, APIs, persistent, and ephemeral storage.
• Experience using formal Test Management tools such as Jira/Confluence or ALM.
• Good awareness of Application Lifecycle Management and IT Service Management using tools like Splunk, Grafana, and ServiceNow.

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• Experience with JavaScript automation frameworks such as WebdriverIO and Playwright.
• Experience running stress/load testing using K6 and Grafana or other/similar open-source tools.
• Knowledge of the Microsoft Azure Portal.
• ISEB Certification in Software Testing.

Desirable Requirements:

• Experience with data migration projects.
• Experience working in the Public Sector.