Role: Contract Automation QA Engineer

Length: 6 Months

Rate: Negotiable

Location: 1 day per week from Guildford

IR35 Status: Inside IR35

We are seeking a Contract Quality Assurance Engineer to join our clients engineering team to work on their software product. You will be responsible for the delivery of quality over simple to complex features. The role is crucial in supporting the clients' agile software development lifecycle.

The QA Engineer must have strong passion for software engineering processes and practices, applied to a quality assurance role. The individual must be highly driven by the benefits of automation and must be able to deliver quality, on time, every time. Excellent communications skills are required along with impeccable attention to detail.

DUTIES AND RESPONSBILITIES

Lead quality activities during team refinement, user experience sessions, retrospectives, and roadmap discussions

Create and propose a high-level quality strategy against roadmap items

Drive the creation of all testing strategies to cover functional, regression, automated, performance, scalability, security and exploratory testing considerations

Accountable for the QA stamp of approval on all features and defect resolutions

Provide hands-on assistance with exploratory and automated test efforts

Reproduce defects and support the team in tracing issues

Pro-actively monitor team quality trends and introduce safeguards ahead of time

Ensure a strong QA mindset exists in the team, by regularly coaching them to consider the happy and unhappy flows - right from the start

Work closely with Lead Automation Engineer to support the test automation strategy

Drive automated testing within your scrum team, aligned to the greater automation strategy

Engage in technical discussions with developers to foresee obstacles concerning quality

Consult with the QA group, wider engineering group and stakeholders to drive out standards and continuously improve our approach to quality

REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Experience gained within a Software Quality Assurance role with hands-on test automation experience

Strong academic background, a degree in a STEM subject discipline would be beneficial

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Vocal communicator, who can respectably challenge the status-quo

Experience working in an agile environment

Hands-on experience creating and writing test automation suites using frameworks such as Selenium, SpecFlow.

Hands-on experience with C#, JavaScript, TypeScript and/or other languages geared towards test automation.

Experience working with and testing APIs and automate it.

Experience with CI/CD and Azure DevOps.

Desirable experience mentoring and coaching teams about QA best practices