Lead Automation Test Engineer

Lead Automation Test Engineer at N Consulting Ltd

Job title: Lead Automation Test Engineer

Job location: Sheffield, UK

Job type: Contract

Job mode: Hybrid

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This role is predominantly required to fulfil the role of Automation test lead, with occasional manual testing where required

Solid experience of at least 5 years in the use of automation tooling and framework creation especially with Java and SQL

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills and stakeholder engagement at all levels
• Able to develop and execute test plans, test cases, test data, test scenarios, and other testing related plans and documentation based on the requirements and technical specifications
• Plan, develop, execute, maintain and improve Automated Test Frameworks and Automated Test Scripts for Web and Database applications
• Experience of using automation tools such as Selenium web driver IO (WDIO) / Cucumber etc, Selenium for UI testing and RestAssured for API testing
• Experience of test tool selection/recommendations based on assessment of the environment/landscape.
• Experience in defining a comprehensive performance test strategy that fully defines the approach, environment, scope, risks and resources required.
• Experience of delivering within both an Agile and Waterfall methodology.
• Jenkins pipeline creation and management for running automated tests, generating reports and notifying team about test results to streamline the CI/CD process.
• Web UI Testing
• Database comparison test experience
• Experience testing in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Ali Cloud
• Extensive experience using JIRA and Xephyr tooling
• Accurately report and track testing related defects and issues, by writing or automating, effective and thorough bug reports, attend triage meetings and verify bug fixes
• Identify process and application issues and provide suggestions to improve
• Learn new technologies and adapt to them as needed
• Identify and deploy automation solutions based on changing project needs
• Identification and collating test entry and exit criteria
• Good experience of executing defined test plans including coordination, tracking and reporting
• Positive team player working as part of the overall test team, both manual and automated
• Test case review/QA for coverage and traceability to requirements/design
• Liaison with business areas/technical leads re SIT/OAT/UAT scenario definitions as required
• Analysis of design and other documents for testability
• Previous experience within Identity and Access Management- preferable
• Any exposure to SailPoint IdentityIQ, Identity warehousing, and working with protocols and formats for data ingestion such as SCIM, REST API, LDAP, OIDC and CSV
• Experience of testing graph database management systems (GDBMS)
• Testing functions and decision points "As Code", such as Policy as code
• Experience of GitOps Repos
• API Testing, API Gateway testing, Batch ETL testing
• Team Leadership & Management - Proven ability to lead, mentor, and manage other engineers within the team
• DevOps & CI/CD Integration - Ability to integrate automation tests into GitLab CI/CD pipelines and implement shift-left testing practices
• Pub Sub and MQ
• GCP (Cloud) testing approaches and methodology.
• SaaS Testing
• Process Improvement - Establish performance testing standards, best practices, and governance frameworks across the organization
• Skill set ideally including several of: