Job Description

In this job, you'll be responsible for the test automation approach and methodology for quality assurance of BT/EE platform solutions. You'll provide technical leadership and strategic direction to automation or qa engineers, resolving the test project issues, and ensuring effective test process improvement feedback. You'll be critical in ensuring that test architecture and test plans are up to date relative to changes in the Digital landscape. You'll confidently lead and share knowledge with a team of engineers. You'll be involved in planning and monitoring the execution of automation tests in a CI/CD environment. You'll define the automation first approach within development sprints, and identify issues with the manual activities whilst using your own initiative to find the right solution for any faults found in dev, test and production. Excellent communication skills are required as you will be liaising with a wider engineering team including operations and product teams. You will also be responsible for implementing the latest technology, in line with our continuous integration and delivery goals. Working collaboratively across both QA and Engineering to achieve testability, maintainability and scalability of our software products, providing technical guidance and coaching throughout.

Responsibilities:

• Define the test automation-driven QA approach and methodology for BT/EE platform solutions
• Be Agile, Test Driven, and a highly technical tester.
• Steering the direction of the automation test framework
• You will work directly with Technical Architects and define automation approaches, write test plans but can still deliver hands-on technically. Whether that be API testing or building test frameworks from scratch.
• Analyse competitive products and technologies with appropriate suggestions to influence product/technology direction.
• Collaborate with test and development engineers on application & testing architecture, to ensure that the approaches and technologies applied to the current implementation are sound and fit for purpose.
• Coordinating the tasks within sprints and looking at ways to automate manual activities within the software delivery process.
• Design/architect and implement regular robust full build / deploy / test automation processes across our digital platforms along with sub-system integrations
• Coordinating test automation activities within projects, including planning and delivering the test phases on time and within budget while meeting all quality objectives.
• Understanding of programming principles and best practices (e. g. DRY, SOLID for creating re-usable code, best practice, etc)
• Own the end-to-end code quality and code performance KPIs
• Proactive monitoring of Production estate code.

Requirements:

• Automation testing experience (3-5 yrs)
• Worked with Service Virtualisation of Enterprise level API driven front and backend systems
• Expertise in testing methodologies, test techniques, and agile QA practices
• Good communication skills of test status across engineering team and stakeholders
• Knowledge of Python, JavaScript, React, NodeJS, Spock, GEB, Selenium and mobile technologies
• Expertise with automated testing tools (such as Applitools, Cypress.io, TestCafe, Selenium, Karma, Saucelabs / Browserstack)
• Background in DevOps tooling for execution of automation tests such as Jenkins, GIT, PAAS, Monitoring / Log aggregation
• Line Management of squads various QA team members
• Experience in integrating test scripts into Continuous Integration Pipelines
• Working knowledge of JIRA / Confluence
• Understanding of complex Headless / Serverless front end testing requirements