Senior Test Engineer
- Recruiter
- American Express
- Location
- Burgess Hill
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 05 Apr 2018
- Closes
- 25 Apr 2018
- Sectors
- Engineering
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
We are looking for a high performing and enthusiastic Senior Test Engineer to join our FX International Payments (FXIP) technology team in American Express, Burgess Hill. In this challenging role you will be accountable for the excellence and evolution of testing practices for the FXIP scrum teams and system team that are developing and implementing innovative technology solutions in support of Global Commercial Payments in American Express.
The successful candidate will join and lead a team of over 30 QA Engineers that operate across multiple scrum teams and the system team, building an exciting transformation of a high profile financial platform across both UI and API environments and involving both green field and brown field development.
Skills Software Testing, Spring, JUnit, Bachelors Degree, Test Automation, Selenium, SoapUI, FinTech, ISTQB, ISEB, Computer Science Degree, Cucumber, jmeter, Postman, Test Engineer, Test NG, PhantomJS, senior test engineer, IDE, Vega, Hamcrest, computer engineering degree, sauce lab, AppScanner Sectors ???Key Responsibilities:- Responsible for quality assurance for the FXIP platform, including developing, revising and maintaining in-house standardized test and team practices, including associated processes, tools and industry best practices
- Provide technical leadership in defining, developing, and evolving test automation in a fast-paced and agile environment and plan/manage various test cycles from integration, acceptance, integration, security, performance, regression to user acceptance testing and production environment evaluations prior to production releases
- Manage a team of QA Engineers in designing and implementing quality processes and quality metrics for complex mission-critical financial systems and participating in the coordination, mentoring, training, and review of new and existing staff
- Lead process improvement activities to identify and resolve quality related issues and to drive increased efficiency across teams, eliminating duplication and maintaining a healthy, comfortable and high performance working culture
- Drive adoption of agile practices and lean thinking throughout department Quality Engineers
Required skills:
- Expert level experience in all aspects of software testing including but not limited to test automation, security, and performance
- Hands on test automation experience in developing and handling data driven, keyword driven, hybrid test frameworks & page object patterns using various technology stacks such as selenium (web driver), IDE, Cucumber, Test NG, Spring, Junit, Hamcrest, PhantomJS or Chrome Headless
- Worked with various other testing tools such as SoapUI, POSTMAN, sauce lab, any performance testing tool (such as JMeter/Load Runner), security tools (such as AppScanner/Vega) and continuous integration tool such as Jenkins
- Ability to provide technical leadership in developing and evolving test automation as well as advising teams on best practices in testing methodology
- Test automation experience in a Web based and REST assured environment using any programming languages (Preferably Java) along with experience in writing DB queries using SQL at least for test automation
- Strong people leadership skills with a good track record of building and managing successful multi-cultural, multi-sited teams
- Growth mind set and proven experience leading process improvement activities
- Able to adapt to a changing environment, handling multiple priorities as assigned and comfortable working under pressure to firm deadlines in an agile and lean way
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience required; advanced degree preferred
- Any of the following test certifications - ISEB, ISTQB - are a plus
- Private medical coverage
- Life assurance & accident insurance
- Emergency back-up child & adult care
- Child care vouchers
- Healthy living programs
- Smart spending portal
- Pension savings plans
- Cycle2work option
- Buy or sell up to 5 days annual holiday
- Diverse employee networks