Automation Engineer

Sanderson ,
Chester, Cheshire
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £40,000 per annum

Overview

Currently looking for an Automation Engineer on behalf of my client who are based in Chester. The role & skillset is as follows and we are looking to set up initial conversations and interviews as soon as possible so look forward to speaking to all applicants soon The Role The succesful candidate will be responsible to automate the testing of web based projects based on the requirements delivered from the business, ensuring that functionality of the system developed in-house is fully covered in the automation test suite to meet the high standards of quality expected by the business Skills: Ideally hold a testing affiliation Considerable experience in Selenium automation using Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grid, JAVA, JUnit & Maven Good knowledge on languages/frameworks such as java, junit, TestNG, C#, .Net, Nunit and scripting languages such as VB script, java script, or shell scripts SOAP & REST web API Experience Experience in writing SQL queries; SQL scripts is essential Expertise in building up/implementing page objects (POM/page factories), externally data driving tests, keyword driven set up of assertions/check points, developing core methods for re-usability and hybrid automation frameworks Excellent experience of build tools like Maven and managing automation projects using them and reporting tools like Sure-fire Test Runner Experience with Version Control Software and code repositories (BitBucket, TFS, GitHub, etc) Familiarity with Continuous Integration and associated tools (Jenkins, Hudson, Docker etc) Experience developing the automation scripts for end to end scenarios and maintaining the automation suites Experience in Code Review process and understanding of definition of done Experience working in agile environment and participating in sprint and scrum meetings Test Report production and support the other automation team members Good understanding of the testing documents and the test life cycle