Test Engineer

Test Engineer

Permanent | Hybrid working Leeds- Newcastle-Manchester | AWS | Terraform | BPSS

We are seeking an experienced Test Engineer will support a large public sector organisation in the delivery and operation of a secure, analytics platform.

The engineer will understand and be experienced with agile ways of working and will be working closely with other engineers to develop test strategy. They will need experience testing software using shift left principles, including CI/CD and continuous testing in pipelines.

They should a track record of building and maintaining automated tests for UI's and API's and driving improvements to automated test suites. They should have experience with BDD frameworks such as cucumber and UI test automation tools including either selenium, cypress or playwright, and API automated test tools such as rest-assured. Ideal experience also includes conducting and enabling non-functional testing such as Performance, Security and Accessibility.

Responsibilities:

· Plan and lead testing activities across sets of related user stories

· Design, implement and maintain automated test frameworks for data pipelines and applications

· Identify and escalate risks and quality issues identified through automated testing

· Analyse and report on test activity, results, issues and risks

· Support live services through production data analysis and root cause investigation

· Operate and support ingest and publishing pipelines and services, identifying opportunities to improve resilience and stability

· Work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, developers and data users to understand requirements

· Take ownership of understanding the end to end system and support knowledge sharing

· Coach and mentor junior engineers and testers in testing best practice

· Ensure delivered functionali...