QA / Test Engineer / Automated Test Architect

QA / Test Engineer / Automated Test Architect – Brighton – £40k

A leading marketing company in central Brighton are looking to bring in a Automated Test Architect / Test Engineer. With strong growth plans, the role will be of key importance in the development of a leading SAAS marketing platform and is responsible for designing automated test scenarios.

You will be working as part of an R&D team, working in a company that values innovation with plenty of scope for career development as company is looking to double in size over the next few years.

The responsibilities will include
● Responsible for building automated test solutions, leveraging and innovating the latest progressive testing and environment toolsets. Solution(s) will include analysis of test automation requirements and test cases, monitoring/analysing test results, collecting test metrics and conducting test reporting
● Responsible for influencing the opinions for ‘building in’ testability during all phases of the SDLC with emphasis on the design and development phases through continued collaboration with platform developers, architects, engineering, and fellow QA engineers
● Develop automated solutions to support all aspects of Quality Assurance, including the execution of test plans to perform both functional and non-functional testing including component, regression, system testing, performance, security.
● Technical advocate in solving the intricacies around the delivery of an holistic automated provisioning tool chain to support a continuous integration / continuous deployment archetype
● Continually identify new tools and techniques and work closely with other engineers to implement them; educate the department through knowledge sharing sessions
● Contribute to the implementation of automation principles with the QA team, define best practices, support the adoption of technologies and tools that drive efficiencies throughout the team

In terms of experience, you should aim to have most of the following:
● Extensive testing experience with strong background in Software Quality Assurance
● Extensive experience designing maintainable automated testing solutions for complex, large, scalable, distributed environments for both functional and non-functional testing.
● Strong background and hands-on experience in several automated testing tools, such as JMeter, Selenium, Soapui, Robot execution framework.
● Knowledge of Continuous Integration/Delivery solutions and tools.
● Good understanding of web-based service-level interaction such as web browsers, PHP, AJAX, HTTP, HTML/XML, JavaScript etc., and ability to debug/trace low level HTTP(s) data interchange.
● Experience with server configuration and environment setup skills. Experience with VMWare is a plus.
● Thorough orientation in DBMS concepts, SQL, stored procedures, and awareness of schema and data optimization principles.

Salary is around the £48,000mark with excellent benefits package on top.

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