Test Engineer

Senior Test Engineer Bristol GBP50,000 - GBP60,000

We are hiring for a Senior Test Engineer to join a leading UK Defence business - this can be based out of their offices in Milton Keynes or Bristol and will be able to work remotely 3 days a week. The successful Senior Test Engineer will work within the programme to support the automation of testing of the information system and will follow defined processes and liaising with the military customer and technical experts, the candidate will be expected to develop automated test scenarios, test cases, test plans and test scripts and also, execute these tests in support of the verification and validation of the solution.

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis and creation of requirement traceability Matrix to ensure proper test coverage
• Write Test plan and perform the estimation for various projects
• Writing test scenarios and test cases, logging defects and test reports.
• Defining and maintaining the automation tests for applications.
• Liaising with programme teams to understand the changes to write test cases with appropriate test coverage.
• Perform automated and manual test execution.

Essential Experience:

• Proven track record of hands-on experience in automation testing
• Excellent Analytic skills and good knowledge of testing processes
• Experience of functional and non-functional testing (estimation, test case development, test planning, test execution, defect life cycle management, test reporting etc.)
• Experience of building Automation Frameworks from scratch is desirable
• Testing certification from the BCS (eg ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Intermediate Level) or other equivalent institute

Experience of the following tools/technologies (desirable):

• HP Quality Centre or ALM
• Selenium Web Driver/Specflow
• ReadyAPI/SOAPUI Automation (Data Driven)
• JMeter/LoadRunner
• JIRA
• GIT/BitBucket
• JSON/XML
• SQL & SQLServer
• Jenkins
• CI/CD pipeline
• TDD/BDD

To discuss this exciting opportunity in more detail, please APPLY NOW for a no obligation chat with your VIQU Consultant. Additionally, you can contact Hannah O'Toole, by exploring the VIQU IT Recruitment website.

If you know someone who would be ideal for this role, by way of showing our appreciation, VIQU is offering an introduction fee up to GBP1,000 once your referral has successfully started work with our client (terms apply).