Automation QA Engineer, AS

Role Description

Quality Assurance (QA) is responsible for ensuring testing strategies, plans and deliverables are executed for all applications and programmes of work within their domain.

Work includes:

• Designing and conducting testing procedures and frameworks to verify software and other technical products to ensure expected functional performance
• Investigating instances where software and technical products do not perform as expected
• Designing and conducting quality assurance practices to support business development activities
• Driving the adoption of recognized best practice and policy and contributes to the ongoing improvement of methodologies and assets for the business
• Working with their counterparts across the business to raise the standard of QA across the bank
• Recording of defects and the collation of metrics and KPI information for reporting purposes
• Testing disciplines include: Performance Testing, Test Automation, Test Processes, Testing Products

Your key responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using standard testing frameworks like Cucumber BDD.
• Collaborate with development and QA teams to understand application features and create robust, comprehensive automation test suite for API and UI
• Integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins) to ensure continuous testing and deployment.
• Develop and execute performance, load, and stress testing strategies to ensure application reliability and scalability.
• Analyze test results, provide detailed reports, and work to improve test coverage, traceability, and efficiency.

Your skills and experience

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in test automation.
• Strong proficiency in Java and experience with automation frameworks like Serenity BDD, Cucumber, Gatling etc.
• Hands-on experience with version control systems (e.g., Git), CI/CD tools (e.g.Jenkins), and build tools (e.g. Gradle).
• Experience in testing RESTful APIs and web services.
• Familiarity with database testing, including SQL queries and data validation in RDBMS, Oracle DB
• Knowledge of BDD/TDD methodologies and tools like Cucumber
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.