Test Automation Engineer

Salary: £720 – £780 per day

Role: Test Automation Engineer

Location: Newbury

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing, development, maintenance and execution of automation framework and automation scripts.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to define requirements and tests.
• Identify, record and thoroughly document bugs.
• Responsible for estimating, prioritizing and coordinating Testing Activities
• Responsible for developing and maintain automated test data
• Responsible for the timely delivery of different testing milestones.
• Responsible for the Automation CI/CD Pipeline (development and maintenance).
• Support in Defect Management process.
• Responsible for compliance and contributing to our IoT CI/CD strategy

Knowledge and skill requirements:

• Automation framework development or enhancement experience using Java, Selenium, RestAssured, PageObject Model
• Scripting experience using BDD in Cucumber for automation of REST, SOAP APIs and Web applications
• Script execution experience via Jenkins Pipeline
• Experience in JAVA with OOPs concepts using Maven build tool
• Testing experience with at least one of the databases SQL, MongoDB, or Elastic Search DB
• Good understanding of JSON, XML, XPATH, CSS Locators, JSONPath
• Working knowledge of a SCM e.g., GIT (Preferably), svn or cvs etc
• Good understanding of testing processes and tools (Jira, Confluence)
• Work experience in at least one SAFe Agile project
• Good experience of API Testing using JMeter, SoapUI or Postman
• Good experience of preparing test strategy, test planning and test scenarios from the requirements and design
• Execution of test plans/scenarios as per the test plan; update test results in HP-QC or JIRA; Preparing daily status report for the test execution – pass/failed/blocked (highlighting why test cases are blocked with possible mitigation plan and action owner)
• Analyse root cause of issues highlighted during testing to identify problem areas, reduce errors and to suggest further improvements in the development process.
• Good analytical, troubleshooting and communication skills ability to raise concerns beforehand.
• Follow up defects, design gaps with BA, Developers, Solution Designers
• Passion to learn, improve and adapt even if you don’t know all the above.

Good to Have:

• DevOps experience in Jenkins (Jobs, pipelines), Unix scripting, Groovy scripting
• Hands on experience with AWS EC2, AWS S3, AWS CloudWatch, AWS ECR, Elastic Search, Mongo DB, Kubernetes, Docker, Containerization
• Should be able to contribute individually with minimal guidance and have excellent communication skills
• Working experience with telecom domain

Diversity & Inclusion 

Capgemini Engineering recognises the benefit that having a diverse workforce brings to our projects. We value applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. In order to support diversity in our hiring process, your application will be anonymised when shared with hiring managers to be reviewed against the position. 

Benefits 

As a permanent employee of Capgemini Engineering you will have access to a range of benefits alongside your salary including. 

About Us 

Capgemini Engineering combines, under one brand, a unique set of strengths from across the Capgemini Group: the world leading engineering and R&D services of Altran – acquired by Capgemini in 2020 – and Capgemini’s digital manufacturing expertise. With broad industry knowledge and cutting-edge technologies in digital and software, Capgemini Engineering supports the convergence of the physical and digital worlds. Combined with the capabilities of the rest of the Group, it helps clients to accelerate their journey towards Intelligent Industry. Capgemini Engineering has more than 52,000 engineer and scientist team members in over 30 countries across sectors including aeronautics, automotive, railways, communications, energy, life sciences, semiconductors, software & internet, space & defence, and consumer products. 

Capgemini Engineering is an integral part of the Capgemini Group, a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided every day by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of 270,000 team members in nearly 50 countries. With its strong 50-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2020 global revenues of €16 billion.