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Benefex
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Southampton, Hampshire
QA Automation Tester
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Job Type: Full-time |
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Salary: £30,000 per annum |
Overview
We believe that no-one comes to work to do a bad job. It can happen through a collection of missed opportunities, not making the most of those daily interactions and experiences. We see the solution as an assortment of loops; each one refined to create seamless but tangible interactions between employers and employees, making work a rewarding place for every single one of us. Benefex is a fast-moving technology company, and one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions in the UK. To help us on our quest to be the best, we need brilliant people on board and that’s where you come in. Our Product Engineering team is reshaping; Product, Infrastructure and Engineering are combining to build the next generation of our award-winning OneHub Platform. One that will enable the creation of not just a single product, but a diverse range of products filling each part of every experience loop; anywhere in the world. What will you be doing? As a QA Automation Engineer, you will be working as part of our combined cross functional Product Engineering Tribe, ensuring the delivery and operation of our new product suite. You will be directly contributing towards our ability to provide a robust, global, multi-tenanted OneHub Platform supporting a continuously evolving set of capabilities with zero downtime. Your day to day activities will include: Design and develop test plans and test cases within the scope of a broader test strategy for a new product in the OneHub suite. Covering entire application stack, with an eye for performance, stress and load. Responsible for the execution of automated testing as part of continuous integration and agile deployment practices with input into platform architecture to facilitate testing and continuous delivery. Work alongside the Product Manager to create acceptance criteria for product features as well as understanding the systems' interfaces and their interactions. Work with the other engineers in the squad to ensure all development tasks meet quality criteria through test planning, test execution, quality assurance and issue tracking. Work closely with other QA Automation Engineers to ensure consistency by documenting procedures and processes for the technical success of the product suite. Communicate effectively with other employees both inside and outside the Product Engineering Tribe. Experience: At least 2 years’ experience of testing and working within an agile team. Analytical in approach and a strong team player. Strong understanding of the QA process, defining and implementing test strategies and approaches. Experience with programming concepts with the ability to write automated tests for web applications and REST APIs using Java or well-known other JVM languages. Competent in the use of automated test tools, such as Selenium, REST-assured plus script automation. Understanding of load, stress and performance testing. Experience of testing in a cloud infrastructure. Appreciate of manual testing and use of Postman as and where needed. Use of test design techniques (e.g. boundary analysis, equivalence partitioning, decision tables & transition) Common test automation design patterns - Page objects etc Extra points for: ISTQB qualification Load Testing with JMeter / Gatling Google Cloud Platform Kubernetes Docker MongoDB Rewards for you: Benefits including 25 days holiday (plus your birthday off) Healthcare, income protection, life assurance and access to our own award-winning online benefits scheme. Great team and innovative office environment. A competitive salary. We know that everyone has commitments outside of work, and we don’t want anyone to feel they’re not able to apply to come and work for us based on the hours they are able to work. We have people working all kinds of working patterns here at Benefex to fit around childcare, public transport, and even their Wednesday evening football match If you’re not looking for full time working hours, then come and chat to us and we’ll do our best to agree a working pattern with you that works for both you and the business. We recognise that great work is all about what you deliver for the organisation… not the hours you’re in the office.