Software Engineer Test Automation

The role:

We are looking for a test automation software engineer who is open to learning and adapting to ever-evolving techniques within our talented team of developers. We work with Mission Critical products to fine tune the experiences of millions of end users - there's nearly zero downtime, so you will need to be excellent at what you do.

As a tester, you will be crucial to each development team, ensuring top quality with each release. You need to enjoy problem solving through white-boarding and pair programming while daring to challenge the way we work.

Some interesting facts about tech at Kindred Group:

• We have an uptime of 99-95% across our sites
• We do over 4,400 production releases each year and target 10,000 releases
• Our platform consists of more than 200 micro-services
• Over 25 million transactions per day
• More than 40 game providers integrated
• Over 20 payment providers integrated
• Millions of events go to our big data platform each day

What you will do

• Learn and contribute in ways outside usual development work, including participating in internal development academies, conferences, public speaking and leadership programs
• Identify business requirements and work closely with the product owner, developers and business analysts to find solutions, providing feedback and ensuring they are fit for purpose
• Write acceptance criteria for requirements
• Design tests to mitigate risk
• Liaise with project teams in other parts of the world
• Estimate test effort for user stories, sprints and projects
• Perform manual testing (exploratory and non-functional) and log results
• Review results of automated tests and log defects
• Stress test
• Performance test
• Collaborate with the UAT test team to ensure consistent behavior and provide feedback to the team in the form of test metrics and reports
• Identify, maintain and drive bespoke test automation solutions
• Monitor and measure test coverage to improve test scenarios
• Provide feedback / input on the techniques, solutions and tools used throughout projects
• Create and maintain online documentation
• Monitor applications and software systems
• Manage and plan releases
• Work to departmental and project deadlines

How will success be measured in this role

• Regular performance reviews with your line manager
• Acting in line with Kindred Group values
• Successful completion of all relevant training and other compliance activities that support Kindred's sustainable and responsible growth

Your experience

• Use of tools and frameworks such as Cucumber and Gatling, Java or Python
• Cypress
• BDD approach to software development
• Test automation within an Agile environment
• Building and maintaining test automation frameworks
• Work with structured test methods and processes
• Use of database concepts and ability to write basic SQL queries
• Software failures and faults
• A risk-based approach to testing
• Non-functional aspects of web application testing, such as UI, Accessibility, Security and Performance