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What does a Senior test automation engineer do at Hogarth?
We are seeking for an experienced Senior test automation engineer who can work closely with the wider engineering team to understand the test automation requirements, ensuring lines of communication always remain open. This person has to work closely with QA Lead to implement the test automation capabilities as per QA strategy requirements, participating in product design to ensure appropriate test strategy and coverage are applied to meet the product requirements, including both functional and non-functional testing. We expect a candidate who can apply the best automated and manual test approaches to execute the required level of testing.
Responsibilities
- Working closely with the wider engineering team to understand the test automation requirements, ensuring lines of communication always remain open.
- Work with the QA Lead to implement the test automation capabilities as per QA strategy requirements.
- Participate in product design to ensure appropriate test strategy and coverage are applied to meet the product requirements, including both functional and non-functional testing.
- Apply the best automated and manual test approaches to execute the required level of testing.
- Capture and report test results and track bugs
- Setting up and maintaining test environments in the Cloud
- Run the required automated tests and perform additional manual exploratory testing checks where necessary.
- Take on leadership responsibility in the design and architecture of test automation frameworks using JavaScript.
- Maintain and extend the existing test automation set up
- Write new automated tests and update the existing tests as the product evolves.
- Building robust, scalable, and high-quality test automation solutions for functional, non-functional and regression testing which increases productivity.
- Promote best practices for using CI and SDLC tools.
- Support development teams with the adoption of tools for CI and test automation
- Drive increased test automation coverage and reporting in all areas of the product.
Reporting lines and key stakeholders
This role reports to the QA Lead, based in London.
You will work closely with other QA engineers, development teams based around the globe.
- Work with Product Managers, QA Lead, and the development team to deliver stable enterprise software product to our clients with the appropriate business value according to agreed deadlines and expectations.
- Working with QA engineers and developers to make sure the test cases are maintainable and reusable and test automation best practices are applied.
- Working with DevOps engineers to define requirements for the SDLC tools.
Requirements
- Total Years of Experience: 5 – 8 Years
- Solid understanding of QA principles and methodologies
- Experience with different functional and non-functional testing types
- Proven track record of building test automation frameworks for different types of testing
- Test automation experience using Cypress/JavaScript (other languages considered). Candidate is willing to learn JavaScript if not having current experience with the language.
- Experience with developing scripts and tooling for Non-Functional Testing
- Preferred JavaScript environment/coding/language experience, though others considered.
- Proven experience with automated cross-browser testing of web applications – essential
- Ability to work with continuous integration tools (GitHub Actions)
- Ability to analyze the testing requirements of complex enterprise systems.
- Experience with GitHub or other Git source control provider
- Working knowledge of Azure preferred but AWS considered.
- Experience reviewing code (automated tests related) and providing feedback.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
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