Role description:
The Senior QA Automation Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality software by driving the development and execution of robust automated testing strategies. This position involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, including Solution Architects, Product Owners, Developers, and DevOps, to design, implement, and maintain scalable testing frameworks. The Senior QA Automation Engineer advocates for Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) approaches while leveraging advanced testing tools and techniques to maximize automation coverage within CI/CD pipelines. With a focus on continuous improvement, this role combines technical expertise, analytical problem-solving, and proactive collaboration to enhance software quality and team efficiency.
Key Accountabilities:
- Collaborate with Solution Architects, Product Owners, Developers, DevOps and other QA Automation Engineers to contribute to both the testing of new product features, and the improvement of testing of existing/legacy features, using technologies and tools including :
- Testing Tools: Reqnroll/Specflow, Postman, Playwright, Swagger, Selenium
- Analyse business requirements, internal designs and non-functional requirements and estimate user stories collaboratively with the team.
- Advocating and continuing to maintain an automated Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) approach with all software solutions
- Write and execute robust test scripts, attaining a high percentage of test automation and regression within CI/CD pipelines
- Manual exploratory testing and maintenance of a clear manual test plan for any test scenarios that can't be automated
- Review logs and databases as part of the testing process, and automate this where possible
- Following industry best practices and ensure other members of the team do likewise.
Required skills and Experience
- Professional level (6+ years’ experience) as an Automation QA within a modern software development environment.
- Experience with C# .Net
- Strong experience with REST APIs and API testing strategies.
- BDD experience with high focus on test automation vs manual testing
- Strong understanding of a balanced Test Pyramid with separation of unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
- Able to describe differences and identify candidates for Unit, Integration & E2E tests
- Experience improving, refactoring, and rewriting tests.
- Experience ensuring that tests run within CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with Specflow/Reqnroll
- Understanding of SQL
- Experience with agile methodologies.
Desired skills & experience
- Previous experience in the payments industry or with PCI DSS compliance is advantageous.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS and containerisation tools like Docker and localstack.
- Experience with performance and non-functional testing.
- Knowledge of testing highly available, scalable, and business-critical systems
Required behaviors and attributes:
- Excellent knowledge of software testing methodologies and techniques
- Good team collaboration and communication skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Calm under pressure.