Role purpose
Working as an Automation Test Engineer within our Moata business, you will join our growing Platform team focused on modernising Mott MacDonald’s delivery to our clients through cross-cutting technology grounded in our Moata Platform.
As a Test Automation Engineer, your job will be to navigate the Moata codebase, identify weak spots and constantly design better and creative ways to break software and identify potential problems. You'll have a large impact on the quality of Moata’s growing suite of products and services.
You will be collaborating with our software engineering team(s) to further improve the quality of our products and keep a mindful eye on how we can make them even better.
Key responsibilities
The specific duties include:
• Work within our software engineering team to ensure requirements are understood, achievable, and tested
• Investigate and debug difficult problems, and help drive them to closure
• Evaluating adequacy and quality assurance standards
• Creating detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases (end-to-end)
• Estimating, prioritising, planning and coordinating testing activities
• Designing, developing and executing automated testing scripts
• Identifying, recording, documenting in detail and tracking identified bugs
• Performing regression testing following the resolution of bugs
• Tracking quality assurance metrics
• Contributing to the creation and maintenance of technical documentation
• Be a vocal proponent for quality in every phase of the development process.
Key skills
• Good knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Experience in writing comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools and knowledge of BDD test automation frameworks (e.g. Specflow, TestNG)
• Experience with GUI (e.g. Selenium) and API testing
• Preferred programming language C#
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Azure DevOps Pipelines)
• Experience with SOA architectures and micro-services
• Interest in Machine Learning
Experience-
The successful candidate will be able to show work product from this period The candidate should have proven work experience in software quality assurance.
• University Degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of experience of software QA and automation testing experience
• Be able to execute automated tests, understand the automation code and prioritize the failures
• Self-motivated with passion for quality
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent knowledge of QA methodologies- writing test plans and test cases
• Experience in cloud computing (e.g., applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms, data)
We can offer (subject to Company’s policy):
- Agile and safe working environment
- Competitive annual leave and sick leaves
- Group incentive scheme
- Group term life insurance, Workmen’s compensation and Group medical insurance coverage
- Short and Long-term Global employment opportunities
- Global collaboration and knowledge sharing
- Digital Innovation and Transformation
Equality, diversity and inclusion
We put equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.
Agile working
At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team and personal commitments. We embrace agility, flexibility and trust.
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