Automation Tester
3 months initially
Manchester or Newcastle (remote working until further notice)
£450-£500 per day
*Umbrella company only
Role overview:
As a QA Tester, you will be responsible for the testing of the application and will collaborate with delivery teams to determine the testability of functional and non-functional requirements. You will own the overall test process for the project, defining the overall test strategy and developing test plans. You will identify and implement all test tooling, test environments and test data required for all phases of testing. You will also identify opportunities for test automation. You will implement a shift left approach to define processes that reduce or eliminate defects as early in the process as possible & will ensure that the breadth & depth of testing is appropriate & proportionate and takes a risk-based approach.
Essential Skills:
- Test planning and strategy
- Development and maintenance of automation test suites
- Continuous integration
- Test scripting
- Behaviour Driven Development
- API testing
- Selenium v2.53.1+
- Cucumber
- Java programming background
- GIT using Gitlab
- Jmeter
