Senior Test Automation Engineer

Location

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk | United Kingdom

Job description

Role Summary:

The overall purpose of the role is to assure quality in the software products developed by the Robotics and Prompting software team, initially working with the Robotics team.

The role holder will have responsibility for automated software testing within an Agile project environment, testing user interfaces and Web APIs running within Azure Devops VMs.

Work Location: Hybrid - 3 days a week in the office at Bury St. Edmunds.

Hours: 37.5 hours/week however this position is part of a global team therefore flexibility is offered to accommodate global communications and productivity. This is essential to the role.

Main Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Design test specifications that cover all functional, non-functional and failure mode requirements from the end user perspective
• Design, write and execute automated tests within an automated test running environment
• Maximize test coverage for the most critical features of the system
• Log and document bugs in the issue tracking system

Our Benefits:

• Competitive Pay
• Bonus Scheme
• Salary Sacrifice Pension
• 25 Days Holidays + Bank Holidays
• Flexible Working Hours
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Benefits
• Employees Sharesave Scheme
• Volunteering Opportunities
• Fund Raising Events with our ESG programme - Action4Good
• Private Medical Insurance
• Life Assurance
• Free On-Site Parking and EV Charging
• And lots more! Visit our VPS Careers for more information.

Our goal is to create a gender and culturally diverse workforce as we believe this is critical to our success. We are committed to attracting, developing, growing and retaining a diverse workforce. Talk to us about your flexible working aspirations - we're open to flexible hours to fit around family commitments.

Knowledge and Skills:

Essential:

• Ability to use own initiative to address problems and present solutions
• Professional approach
• Excellent communication skills
• Attention to detail ability
• Design test specifications that cover all functional, non-functional and failure mode requirements from the end user perspective
• Design, write and execute automated tests within an automated test running environment
• Maximize test coverage for the most critical features of the system
• Log and document bugs in the issue tracking system
• ESG as a key performance measure within our business. We are looking for individuals who share our commitment to supporting our environment, our communities, promoting diversity and operating ethically in everything we do.
• At least 3 years software testing experience with most or all of the following:
• Testing C# application UIs written with WPF
• Appium (WinAppDriver)
• Azure Devops (Repository & Pipelines)
• WebAPI
• Tasks, Async/Await
• NUnit/MSTest

Desirable:

• Postman for Automated API testing
• Jira
• Testing against multi-client systems

Education and Qualifications:

Essential:

• Relevant software qualifications

Desirable:

• Relevant degree in computing

Videndum Mindset:

Our commitment is founded on a set of core values that form the Videndum Mindset:

• Exceptional Product Performance
• Customer Focus
• Leading a Fast Changing Market
• Global Capability
• Transparency, Integrity and Respect
• Environmental Consciousness

Health and Safety is at the forefront of everything we do at Videndum Production Solutions:

All employees are expected to take care for their own health and safety and that of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions in accordance with the Company health and safety policy by using correct tools, processes and Personal protective equipment and not perform any function unless appropriately trained and authorised.

Our approach to diversity follows a strict policy of sourcing the best person for the role irrespective of race, gender, age, religion, sexual preference, or disability. Our Code of Conduct sets out an express prohibition on discrimination of any kind.

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