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Data Test Automation Engineer

Data Test Automation Engineer

DataCareersEast Sussex, England, United Kingdom
29 days ago
Salary
£55,000.00–£65,000.00 yearly
Job type
  • Permanent
Job description

Data Test Automation Engineer

Location : Brighton (1-2 days a week in the office)

Salary : £55,000 - £65,000 (plus bonus, excellent benefits)

Permanent

Skills : Selenium and / or Playwright, SQL Server, Backend Testing

In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing automated test scripts to validate the functionality of our data analytics platform. This is a largely green field opportunity, working alongside rapidly maturing multidisciplinary platform and development teams.

Within this role, you'll be operating within an exciting and dynamic company-wide technology change programme, which will see the development and delivery of new systems enabling us to support regulatory activity in the business.

Responsibilities

  • From scratch, develop the product and development teams' approach to testing - e.g. a framework for test driven development
  • Design and develop automated test scripts with a focus on SQL-based data validation, ensuring the accuracy of data flows and transformation.
  • Integrate automated tests into CI / CD pipelines, enhancing the platform's development workflow and efficiency.
  • Lead investigative work into problems and opportunities in existing processes.
  • Input into the overall TPR Test Team strategy, think creatively, ask the right questions and critically evaluate and communicate findings to the larger team.
  • Be the person on-point and overall responsible for the automation testing delivery within the Platform team.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of emerging tools and techniques.
  • Effectively work across different tools and software languages.
  • Advise on up-to-date functional and non-functional testing techniques.

Essential

  • Professional experience with manual and automation testing of back-end systems, with a strong emphasis on data validation
  • Experience of SQL scripting and proven capability of writing sophisticated queries to analyse problems, and interrogate data pipelines
  • Desirable

  • Experience with deploying automated testing within Azure DevOps based CI / CD pipelines
  • Experience with testing using Azure Data Factory
  • Experience a range of testing methodologies and techniques including agile, with the ability to write test procedures, plans and report development / implementation.