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Senior QA Engineer

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Enable

Quality Assurance
Stratford-upon-Avon CV37, UK
Posted on Tuesday, April 2, 2024
As a Senior QA Engineer, your primary responsibility will be to develop and maintain functional automation tests using our in-house framework (C#, SpecFlow, Playwright, RestSharp) to support cross-platform engineering teams to deliver with confidence. This role is ideal for a self-starter with curiosity, strong analytical skills, and a passion for upholding quality.
You should have significant experience in writing functional automation tests for various web applications and API technologies. Additionally, you will need to conduct manual regression testing of products without existing automated testing while sharing QA best practices to up-skill and mentor your colleagues.
Your extensive experience in creating a variety of tests covering end-to-end and integration layers is essential. You are expected to showcase your knowledge of QA best practices and tooling aimed at bolstering our test strategy by reducing manual testing efforts and accelerating our speed of delivery.
We want all our people to be whoever they want to be and are committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at Enable. We believe that bringing your full authentic self to work helps us to build the best quality software, and by creating a truly diverse workforce we bring innovation into everything we do.

What we are asking you to do!

  • Work as part of an enthusiastic team, prioritise testing activities for all new features and changes to the existing codebase before release.
  • Develop and maintain automated regression test suites (UI, API & DB) using our in-house automation framework (C#, SpecFlow, Playwright, RestSharp)
  • Resolves repetitive database tasks and/or test data creation and maintenance activities with automated solutions.
  • Integrate front-end automation into new CI/CD pipelines and build processes for greenfield projects. and a proficiency environment and test data setup and teardown.
  • Support manual testing where automation is not in place, defining repeatable test scripts that can be automated at a later stage.
  • Proactively report and manage bugs through Jira when expected quality is not met, monitoring and escalating issues to a satisfactory resolution.
  • Collaborate with peers across PM, Product Engineering, and Platform (Data, DevOps, QA, UX).
  • Attend daily stand-ups and other agile ceremonies regularly.
  • Implement new testing processes and provide suggestions to the wider team to prevent bugs from occurring in the first place.

What we are asking you to bring!

  • 5+ years of automation experience testing SaaS web applications using a variety of tech stacks and architectures hosted in the cloud, but we focus on skill and ability, not tenure.
  • Ability to prioritise and manage multiple QA and automation initiatives effectively.
  • Proficiency in setting up test environments and test data, test execution, defect tracking and reporting.
  • Apply expertise in testing variousAPI protocols manually, checking correct responses and security concerns.
  • Utilising database knowledge to write and execute queries for verifying and extracting data across both SQL and NoSQL databases.
  • Extensive knowledge of front-end & API automation frameworks and best practices e.g. Arrange, Act Assert. Knowledge of Page Object Model design patterns for maintaining clean and modular test scripts.
  • Experience with open-source performance testing tools, JMeter, RESTful stress etc.
  • Experience using GitHub action workflow actions to build automated quality gates in a CI/CD pipeline.
  • Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively engage with a wide range of stakeholders to achieve results. Capable of reporting on key quality metrics for a project or team while identifying new metrics that should be tracked.
  • Experience in mentoring and coaching other team members.
  • Have a strong analytical mind, excellent attention to detail and be able to absorb complex technical information quickly.
  • Knowledge of ISO 27001, SOC and GDPR