FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a QA Automation Engineer in London to work for our client within the Energy sector. This is an initial 6-month contract.
This role requires the QA Automation Engineer to look after our client’s application frameworks, the core skills required are C#, behaviour driven development, Cucumber, SQL and Specflow. Majority of this role will be spent coding the automation framework therefore the successful applicant must have excellent C# skills with prior experience or knowledge and understanding of what testing is.
Responsibilities
- Delivering independent testing for major applications
- Manages most problems independently and has some latitude to solve complex problems
- Applies analytical thinking and knowledge of data analysis tools and methodologies
- Test case design & development, automated test case execution, test automation development, reviews of requirements, and other project artifacts
- Implementation and execution of automation test frameworks
- Assist the QA lead in the quantification and tracking of automation test coverage, designing testing KPIs, and reporting on corresponding metrics
- Acting as a quality gate before software products are delivered to our clients
- Identifying and highlighting ways to continuously optimise the way in which QA function operates to create an efficient, scalable team
- Work with the business and Production Support to investigate issues and prevent production defects
- Identifies, recommends and implements process improvements to enhance testing strategies
- Exhibits good understanding of concepts and principles in own technical area and a basic knowledge of these elements in other areas
- Resolves problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and guided by precedents