Overview
The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer will play a pivotal role in enhancing the quality assurance processes for a public sector organisation on a hybrid/remote basis. This position involves collaborating with the QA Lead, business stakeholders, and development teams to create and implement functional and automation QA strategies that align with project requirements, ultimately ensuring the delivery of high-quality applications and services. The contractor will be responsible for leading QA efforts across multiple projects, contributing to the overall improvement of testing practices and methodologies.
Responsibilities
- Assist the QA Lead in developing functional and automation test capabilities and frameworks.
- Collaborate with QA teams to achieve testing goals across multiple projects.
- Work with stakeholders to design and implement automated solutions based on business processes.
- Create and maintain automated regression and smoke test packs with version control.
- Provide QA leadership on assigned projects/products and ensure high-quality test documentation.
- Execute automated tests daily across various projects and infrastructures.
- Conduct functional validation and reporting against pass/fail criteria.
- Perform root cause analysis of failures and implement rapid resolutions.
Requirements
- Extensive knowledge of testing and QA tools such as JIRA, ALM, Azure, DevOps, and Zephyr.
- Proven experience automating front-end web-based systems, mobile applications, and APIs.
- Comprehensive knowledge of automated testing tools like Selenium, Webdriver I/O, and Cypress.
- Familiarity with version control systems such as GIT and Azure DevOps.
- Minimum 5-8 years of automation testing experience within an Agile framework (DevOps, CI/CD).
- Understanding of various software architectures and cloud-based solutions, particularly Azure.
- Experience with testing methodologies including Agile, BDD, TDD, and Kanban.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with previous public sector experience preferred.