QA Engineer
About this role
Methods is driven by a desire to improve public services for the benefit of all the people who use them, leveraging current technologies to deliver user centred solutions and having an internal culture that allows our staff to express themselves and be innovative. Location: remote role with some travel to London (limited)As a QA Engineer you will be expected to work at one of our clients and perform high quality functional and non-functional testing on complex systems. You must be familiar with Agile practices and tools and able to work in fast paced CI/CD environment. You will be proactive and always look for ways to improve the automated tests to make them more efficient. You will work closely with developers, devops engineers and business stakeholders (operations, incident management and product management) to understand the positive and negative impact software can have on end users and provide accurate updates on the progress and outcomes of testing.Responsibilities: Perform functional and non-functional (performance, accessibility, security, operational/user acceptance) testing, working within an Agile team. Develop and maintain test automation solutions and scripts, promoting best practices within the development team Develop and maintain performance/load/stress testing solutions using standard or open-source tools Resolve problems and blockers as they occur and help to unlock the progress of testing Collaborate, communicate & work effectively with geographically distributed cross-functional teams Defect Management, ensuring that defects are effectively triaged and managed until resolution Promote the value of solid testing practices to all delivery stakeholders and influence adoption of best practice Experience with devising TDD/BDD or Acceptance Test Driven Development strategies using a range of tools/frameworks, ensuring test coverage and execution is in line with the project, programme or portfolio Test Strategy and Business Risk Objectives. Strong Java coding experience and knowledge of automated test frameworks e.g. Serenity, RestAssured Strong experience using API testing tools, ideally Postman Experience with integrating testing as part of the Secure-SDLC and CI/CD tooling in an DevSecOps environment using: GitHub, Jenkins, GitLab SaaS, Artifactory, Nexus etc. Experience with testing citizen facing services Experience with testing highly scalable, distributed, cloud native (PaaS/FaaS) and microservice orientated architecture applications leveraging containerisation, container orchestration, service mesh, messaging, proxies, API, persistent and ephemeral storage etc. Experience using formal Test Management tools (Jira/Confluence, ALM). Good awareness of Application Lifecycle Management and IT Service Management using tools such as Splunk, Grafana and ServiceNow. Desirable Skills & Experience: Experience of using JavaScript Automation Frameworks such as WebdriverIO, Playwright Experience of running stress/load testing using K6 and Grafana or other/similar open-source tools. Knowledge of Microsoft Azure Portal ISEB Certification in Software Testing Desirable Requirements: Experience with data migration projects Experience working in the Public SectorThis role will require you to have or be willing to go through Security Clearance. As part of the onboarding process candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard; details of the evidence required to apply may be found on the government website Gov.UK. If you are unable to meet this and any associated criteria, then your employment may be delayed, or rejected. Details of this will be discussed with you at interview.
What this role is, and what else it is called
Employers in the UK advertise this kind of work as Senior Apps QA Engineer (Android), Test Engineer, Quality Assurance Manager and Quality Assurance Engineer too, so it is worth searching more than one wording. It is a mid-level QA & Software Testing role in the UK, advertised as fully remote, so it is open to candidates working from home.
About hiring at Methodsdigital
Methodsdigital appears alongside 4 other live technology roles on this source domain, across IT Support & Service Desk, Software Engineering and Enterprise Applications. Among 2 roles with a known arrangement, 100% are fully remote and 0% hybrid. Elsewhere in its adverts Methodsdigital asks for Observability and ServiceNow. See all Methodsdigital roles, salaries and stack.
How this role compares to the market
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