Digital Delivery Automation Tester - IPO - HEO
Government Digital & Data -
Location
Newport, NP10 8QQ
About the job
Job summary
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Digital Delivery Automation Tester
The IPO is a modern organisation which depends on its IT services to operate and innovate effectively. In order to provide up to date services to our customers both nationally and internationally systems need to be developed, improved and maintained. You will have the opportunity to work on the latest cutting-edge cloud technologies, use modern delivery processes and work on innovative projects some including the use of AI and ML. Working alongside experts in their fields you will have the opportunity to make valuable contributions without compromising on quality.
You will need the appetite to learn new technologies and methodologies for delivering high quality IT services. In this role you will work within a multi-disciplinary squad using several technologies to build enterprise grade services. You will be expected to be proactive and take accountability for assigned deliveries. The role will also require the investigation, diagnosis and fix of any system issues. Opportunities to contribute to the technical strategy are also available.
As a multi-skilled individual, you will have the opportunities to develop and mature skills in a core role but extend this to skills typically aligned to other role types. You will have a high level of input in defining which additional skills you can develop.
Working Style
This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport Office.
The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office.
Job description
Main duties consist of but are not limited to:
- Responsible for writing, executing and maintaining functional/non-functional automated UI and API tests/suites aligned against acceptance criteria to support our continuous deployment environment
- Be responsible for the design, coding, testing, maintenance, and documentation for robust, scalable and reusable solutions that deliver exceptional user experience using DevOps best practice
- Proactively investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, evaluating and communicating findings and recommendations to stakeholders
- Work closely with software developers to reach a common understanding of the code base and test coverage at unit level
- Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user focused and successful digital services ensuring governance standards are adhered to.
- Identify defects, incidents, risks and issues in line with IPO standards
- Keeping an open mind and exploring innovative ways to solve problems, working in a fail-fast fashion to provide required functionality.
- Mentor colleagues in automation/test standards and business processes following agreed governance and best practice
- Assist in implementing toolkits and APIs for purposes such as integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability
Person specification
Essential Criteria
Essential Experience
- Experience in delivering technical solutions
- Experience with modern delivery models such as Scrum and Agile
- Understanding of DevOps principles
Essential Technical
- Good understanding of mainstream testing frameworks/libraries such as Selenium WebDriver, BDD SpecFlow and RestSharp
- Experience in a mainstream development language
- Experience in Web Services, REST
- Experience of writing SQL statements
