Automation Engineer QA - x 2

• Location: Dublin Office - 2 Days on site per week
• Duration: Initial 6 months - verly likely to be extended
• Full time contract 8 hours per day 5 days per week
• €350 - €475 per day (depending on experience)

I'm currently working with a Dublin based Fintech services business who focus on both B2B & B2C payment platforms & solutions to find 2 QA Engineers with strong automation testing experience. In this role you will be working closely with Developers on critical business products.

Role Overview:

• Mentor team members on quality guidelines and best practice
• Drive stories to completion including automated testing, docs, etc.
• Ensure team is working in line with quality guidelines
• Excellent product and domain knowledge
• Evaluate, assess and report on new testing tools, techniques and technologies.
• Ability to support/steer key stakeholders in the decision making process.
• Strong knowledge of the various testing techniques and how and when they apply.
• Set and achieve self improvement goals on improving skill set aligned with technology radar or career plan
• Constantly look to improve the products, team and QA function.

Requirements:

• Excellent automation skills (cucumber and java)
• Define/create automation tests in line with guidelines
• Good understanding of non functional testing like performance testing and resilience testing
• Experience creating / adding to / maintaining test automation frameworks
• Experience with cucumber & Java for automation
• Knowledge of REST principles and testing approaches
• Experience of XML, JSON, Tomcat, Linux and Web Services
• Experience with Jenkins or similar
• SQL skills

Technical Expertise Needed for the role:

• Outstanding analytical and problem solving skills
• Self-motivated, high performing and goal oriented
• Demonstrates energy, effort and enthusiasm for delivery and results
• Worked in Scrum Agile development environment
• Knowledge of transaction processing systems
• Work in a continuous delivery environment.
• Experience testing microservices
• Experience with secure development