Automation Test Analyst - London

Location
London, London
Salary
£40,000 - £47,000 per annum
Posted
03 Jul 2018
Closes
31 Jul 2018
Ref
1499733
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Automation Test Analyst
London
£40000 - £47000 per annum

As a Senior Automation Test Analyst, you will lead the effort to build, implement, maintain and use new test frameworks and or extend existing frameworks, enabling end-to-end testing in multi-component environments. This role involves working with other test analysts and colleagues from across the organisation, including suppliers, to design and develop a reusable architecture for the test automation.

Key Accountabilities:

* Influence the direction of the automation effort, and its scheduling and prioritisation.
* Support and improve the test processes, environments, and scripts, ensuring that tests provide high quality code assurance
* Work closely with manual test team to understand priorities and goals
* Document and improve test automation strategies for reference across the business
* Design automation frameworks and plan and implement automation test script, integrating with appropriate test management tools
* Provide a practical approach to complex product testing, specifically in the areas of the automation of test cases for the purposes of regression testing.
* Review product requirements, functional and design specifications to determine and prepare automated test cases.
* Work closely with various project and infrastructure team members to understand testing objectives and ensure that problems are resolved in a timely and efficient manner.
* Actively seek information from across projects, seek opportunities for automation and supply advice and arguments for/against each automation opportunity
* Lead on and offshore automation testers to ensure the execution and verification of reports created by the various products and services used by the organisation.
* Provide robust test strategies and briefs for automation teams to work against

Required Skills and Experience

* Extensive experience in leading automation testing across a multiple product environment
* Demonstrable expertise in being creative and proactive within a complex testing environment
* Understanding of data interrogation principles
* Knowledge of Continuous Integration methodologies esp. Jenkins
* High level knowledge of automation tools esp. Selenium with Java, Cucumber, Maven
* Strong team working skills - good at drawing out key requirements and influencing outcomes
* Proven ability to make use of current technologies to provide extensible automation infrastructures, and an interest in learning about new approaches and future technologies.
* Understanding of Agile methods and project environments