Technical test analyst/ automation

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Join our international team of more than 40 colleagues. As different as we are, we all have one thing in common – the curiosity about technology and knowledge. We are an experienced, motivated, purposeful, and cheerful team that is always looking forward to new challenges.

• Strong practical enterprise experience on test automation tooling and frameworks (2 years +)
• ISTQB Certification - Foundation / Advanced
• Java Selenium Framework
• Understanding of Agile techniques (e.g. BDD, TDD)
• Identification, management and understanding of Change Control Process
• Demonstrable (2 years +)and essential automation tooling experience and preferably in the following tools:
o Selenium
o Eclipse
o Github/Maven
o Bitbucket
o Jenkins
• Experience of Jira
• A good understanding of SQL, C# and object orientated programming techniques
• Problem solving skills and ability to think laterally
• Good communication skills
• Collaborative team player who can also work independently. Known as being a team player and achieving for the group rather than individual
• Very good English skills

What you will bring to the role

• Make a positive contribution to the productivity, efficiency and morale of the team;
• Make a positive contribution to the Strategic evolution of the QEA function;
• A good communicator with the ability to influence at all levels of the organisation;
• The ability to estimate, plan and prioritise testing as part of a scrum team
• The ability to collaborate with developers to propose testability and represent the quality of business requirements
• Understand business requirements in order to write automated tests primarily and occasionally manual exploratory testing as required;
• The ability to create SBE/BDD feature files
• Experience of working in an Agile CI/CD environment
• Produce neat, dated, referenced and fully documented work which is easily reviewed and can be followed up at a later date;
• Maintain an understanding of changes to pension’s legislation that may impact the functionality of our products / systems and processes / procedures;
• Review of automated and performance tests written by developers and testers, ensuring internal standards and best practices are adhered to;
• Testing responsibility for identifying project risks and giving high-level estimates for future work to high-level stakeholders during EIA and scoping sessions;
• Technical Test consultant, as required, on other projects within JLT;
• Coaching developers and testers in the UK and off-shore India team on automation testing techniques;
• Working with the technical support team on production issues;
• Facilitating team improvements through acting on items raised in retrospectives and continuous improvement roadmap backlog;
• Supporting testing conducted outside of the Agile SCRUM teams involving UAT, workshops, training, demonstrations and presentations.

What will we offer you

• We understand that life is for living and therefore offer flexible working to work around your needs and lifestyle;
• We offer a competitive salary as well as highly competitive benefits;
• An open, friendly and fun environment to work in; casual dress code, regular social events;
• We work in an Agile environment based on SCRUM and DevOps methodologies;
• We will help you develop with regular one to one meetings with your line manager to assess your career objectives with possibilities of internal growth aligned to our ‘Growing Everyday’ ethos.