Role: Senior Test Engineer REF 105223
Contract Length: 6 months
Location: Remote with occasional travel to London
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: BPSS
About the Role
Spinwell is recruiting for a Senior Test Engineer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
Key Responsibilities
- Define, own and continuously evolve the automation-first testing strategy, ensuring frameworks, tools and approaches remain fit for purpose in a fast-paced and frequently changing environment.
- Own the identification, interpretation and communication of quality risks and automation results, ensuring they are meaningful, evidence-based and used to directly influence defect resolution, requirement gaps, delivery and release decisions.
- Work on both functional and non-functional areas of a complex system(s) built with multiple technologies.
- Be proficient in a range of coding languages and lead by example in the development, debugging and refactoring of high-quality automated test code.
- Work closely with software developers to reach a shared understanding of system design, code quality and test coverage, including influencing unit and integration testing practices.
- Collaborate with senior test analysts, product teams and user-centred design colleagues to ensure complex business scenarios and user needs are effectively covered through automated and exploratory testing
- Carry out system (ST), integration (SIT) using automated techniques.
- Manage and prioritise competing demands and workstreams to meet fixed delivery deadlines, escalating quality and delivery risks where appropriate.
- Lead on change impact assessment of all changes ensuring that test coverage mitigates any impact to external stakeholders.
- Act as peer reviewers for automation code created by other test engineers within the team, ensuring that all discrepancies are highlighted, and the appropriate action is taken using the fault management system.
- Work with the Product Owners and lead the sprint show/tell sessions where needed
Essential Skills and Experience
- Comprehensive and detailed knowledge of test tools - Cucumber, Playwright, K6
- Comprehensive knowledge of code version management tools like GitHub and Azure DevOps
- Working knowledge of Software coding language in the Microsoft stack E.g.: C#, node.js, JavaScript, Typescript etc
- Working knowledge of any other SQL and relational database
- Experience of working as an automated test engineer within the test team delivering successful outcomes
- Practical experience of testing on .NET, SQL and Microservices architecture- on prem and cloud
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