Automation Tester

Salary: £42,000 – £48,000 per year

Automation Tester
CV-Library is one of the leading job boards in the UK, attracting over 10 million monthly visits and boasting a CV database of over 1 million UK workers. This is why we are the job board of choice for over 10,000 customers who are looking to hire the best talent for their business. Our U.S. brand Resume-Library is one of the fastest growing job boards in North America and we have ambitious plans for further global expansion.
Due to our future plans to enhance and drive our automation testing across our organization we are looking for an Automation Tester who can lead the way in creating our automation test programme. You will be fully collaborating with our QA team and ensuring knowledge transfer is extensively provided.
Our office is based in Fleet, Hampshire, however, this role is fully remote with potential to be office based you are interested in that.
Knowledge and experience:
Creating and defining the automation test strategy and executing this.
Designing and executing functional and regression test cases
Exploratory testing
Providing clear and concise bug reports and assisting developers with identifying issues
Performing ad-hoc testing and problem solving
Testing experience in REST API and cross browser testing (Postman, SOAPUI)
Experience of testing Mobile and Web applications.
Comfortable working in a SCRUM team/in Agile environment as well as working independently when required
JIRA experience or similar
Good communication across teams
Knowledge transfer on automation testing.
Essential Criteria:
Version control, e.g. Git or SVN
Selenium or similar testing automation framework
SQL knowledge – preferably MySQL
Some knowledge of programming languages – preferably PHP and Go
At least 2 years experience in a purely automation role
Highly proficient in microservices and API testing
Knowledge and experience in Test Containerisation using Docker technology
Understanding of CI tools like Jenkins
Experience of working in Agile environment