Digital Delivery Senior Automation Tester - Newport
14 hours ago
Alresford
About the job Job summary Digital Delivery Senior Automation Tester The IPO is a modern organisation which depends on its IT services to operate and innovate effectively. In order to provide up to date services to our customers both nationally and internationally systems need to be developed, improved and maintained. You will have the opportunity to work on the latest cutting-edge cloud technologies, use modern delivery processes and work on innovative projects some including the use of AI and ML. Working alongside experts in their fields you will have the opportunity to make valuable contributions without compromising on quality. You will need the appetite to learn new technologies and methodologies for delivering high quality IT services. In this role you will work within a multi-disciplined squad using several technologies to build enterprise grade services. You will be expected to be proactive and take accountability for the squad assigned deliveries. The role will also require the investigation, diagnosis and fix of any system issues. A Senior Test Engineer is expected to contribute to the technical strategy for the department. As a multi-skilled individual, you will have the opportunities to develop and mature skills in a core role but extend this to skills typically aligned to other role types. You will have a high level of input in defining which additional skills you can develop. We are recruiting for multiple roles of which one role is slightly biased towards application testing post infrastructure changes. Working Style This role will be carried out in -line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport Office . The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office. Job description Main duties consist of but are not limited to Technical • Responsible for writing, executing and maintaining functional/non-functional automated UI and API tests/suites aligned against acceptance criteria to support our continuous deployment environment, • Be responsible for the design, coding, testing, maintenance, and documentation for robust, scalable and reusable solutions that deliver exceptional user experience using DevOps best practice, • Proactively investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, evaluating and communicating findings and recommendations to stakeholders, • Work closely with software developers to reach a common understanding of the code base and test coverage at unit level, • Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user focused and successful digital services ensuring governance standards are adhered to., • Identify and manage defects, incidents, risks and issues in line with IPO standards, • Build automated test solutions from scratch in line with IPO Test Strategy and IPO Engineering Principles, • Contribute to the design, coding, testing and documentation of small scale to large, complex or mission critical program, • Understanding yourself to be a leader (and the impact of your behaviour on others in a project team focused on results), • Engaging Stakeholders (for mutually beneficial collaborative relationships outside of the team), • Work across several multi-disciplinary teams to deliver highly focused and successful digital services, • Provide project / delivery management support when required, • Effective management and delegation of tasks within the team, • Applies "progress over perfection" principle, • Takes full responsibility for decisions and delivers, • Inner composure, recovers quickly from setbacks and learns from the experience, • Highly driven & inspires others to move things along and make things happen, • Drive your own training and self-development, keeping skills up to date and learning new skills, • Take responsibility for ensuring that the team test and build activities follow agreed governance and processes, • Promote and display the IPO and Civil Service Values, • Guide more junior members in their personal development, • Coach and mentor colleagues, • Has been a key player in delivering technical solutions as part of large projects, • Experience of working with cloud technologies including Azure, • Experience of using data models, • Experience in test documentation, such as strategies and approaches, • Experience in testing front-end and back-end web services, • Experienced with Agile delivery model, • Experience with Automation tools, including MS Visual Studio with C#, Selenium, BDD, SpecFlow, MSTest, RestSharp and JavaScript, • Working knowledge of non-functional test tools including JMeter and Azure Load Test, • Experience with Github, • Has a deep understanding of architectural principals with design patterns, • Upload an anonymised copy of your current CV. Please remove all identifying markers such as name, title, education institution etc., • Developing Self and Others, • Working Together, • Unlimited Pluralsight video learning access, • Access to Microsoft's ESI training suite, • Hybrid working with no core hours, • Substantial support for career progression, • 25 days annual leave moving to 30 days in annual increments, • UK nationals, • nationals of the Republic of Ireland, • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK, • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window), • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS), • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020