Quality Automation Specialist (API Testing)

Join us as a Quality Automation Specialist

• In this key role, you ll be undertaking and enabling automated testing activities in all delivery models
• We ll look to you to support teams to develop quality solutions and enable continuous integration and assurance of defect free deployment of customer value
• You ll be working closely with feature teams and a variety of stakeholders, giving you great exposure to professional development opportunities
• Were offering this role at associate level

Joining us in a highly collaborative role, you ll be contributing to the transformation of testing using quality processes, tools, and methodologies, significantly improving control, accuracy and integrity. You ll make sure repeatable, constant and consistent quality is built into all phases of the idea to value lifecycle at reduced cost or reduced time to market. It s a chance to work with colleagues at multiple levels, and with cross-domain, domain, platform and feature teams, to build in quality as an integral part of all activities.

Additionally, you ll be:

• Supporting the design of automation test strategies, aligned to business or programme goals
• Actioning and evolving more predictive and intelligent testing approaches, based on automation and innovative testing products and solutions
• Collaborating to refine the scope of manual and automated testing required, the creation of automated test scripts, user documentation and artefacts
• Designing and creating a low maintenance suite of stable, re-usable automated tests, which are usable both within the product or domain and across domains and systems in an end-to-end capacity
• Applying testing and delivery standards by understanding the product development lifecycle along with mandatory, regulatory and compliance requirements

We re looking for someone with experience of automated testing, particularly from an Agile development or CI/CD environment. You ll be an innovative thinker who can identify opportunities and design solutions, coupled with the ability to develop complex automation code.

You ll have a good understanding of Agile methodologies with experience of working in an Agile team, with the ability to relate everyday work to the strategic vision of the feature.

We ll also look for you to have:

• At least four to eight years of API Automation experience using RestAssured or SOAPUI
• Expertise in designing and developing API Automation frameworks using Java
• Strong proficiency in Java programming and object-Oriented programming principles
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integration of automation scripts
• Experience in end-to-end and automation testing using the latest tools as recommended by the enterprise tooling framework
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to management level colleagues
• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills

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