Location:
Anywhere, Worldwide
We are looking for a Senior Automation QA Engineer for a British media company. You will work with the existing London and Ukraine development teams.
About the company:
Argus is a fast-growing global B2B media company providing essential information on commodity markets. As a business, we continue to grow and evolve, adding new markets, new services, new delivery options and improved analytical tools. ArgusMedia is an independent media organisation with 1,200 staff. It is headquartered in London and has 28 offices in the world’s principal commodity trading and production centers. The company produces price assessments and analyses of international energy and other commodity markets and offers bespoke consulting services and industry-leading conferences.
Key responsibilities:
- Plan to test.
- Promote and adhere to the Argus test strategy where applicable.
- Manage and maintain existing automation suites using selenium web-driver.
- Create new automation suites that provide early feedback on allocated projects.
- Determine the right proportion of UI based automation vs non-UI based automation tests implemented per project.
- Own (create, manage, edit) continuous integration on assigned projects within your role as Automation tester.
- Execute manual and automated functional and non-functional tests.
- Manage cloud-based environments.
- Guide developers on QA automation related matters.
Skills:
- Strong C# development skills in a .NET environment.
- A strong knowledge of object orientated programming principles.
- Experience of liaising between development, test and business teams.
- Self-learner, keeping abreast of changes within the testing industry and software development as a discipline.
- Test harness creation in a .NET environment .
- Advanced knowledge of selenium WebDriver.
- Adanced knowledge of playwright.
- Creating a suite of Gherkin style tests with Spec flow from requirements and or use cases .
- A working knowledge of GIT.
- Commercial knowledge and use of RabbitMQ and message queueing.
- Create automated integration tests at API level .
- A strong understanding of the technical architecture of complex web applications and web technologies including RESTful APIs.
- Strong understanding of object orientated programming.
- A strong understanding of microservices architecture.
- Debugging automated test scripts.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
- Test suite optimization (time and resources) .
- Experience of collaborating with programmers and business experts.
- A positive can-do attitude and enthusiasm, and the capability of learning new technologies.
- Ability to interrogate a database using SQL or visual tools to extract relevant data.
- Demonstrate the use and advantages of heuristic evaluation during software testing .
Additionally, the following would be valuable:
- Practical knowledge of JMeter or similar tools for performance testing .
- Cloud-formation knowledge.
Benefits:
- Annual Salary review.
- Group healthcare and life assurance scheme.
- 25 days holiday with annual increase up to 30 days.
- Free access to O’Reilly Books Online and Udemy.
- No overtime. 40 hours per week maximum.
- 1000£ to arrange your workplace.
- Managers will help to build a personal development plan and grow.
- Developer-friendly environment, clever, friendly colleagues. Minimum corporate interference.
Hiring process:
- HR Prescreen call (~30 min)
- Call with Head of QA (~1 hour)
- Test task
- Technical Interview (~2 hours)
Are you interested?
Please feel free to contact us if you need any further information.
