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 validationExperience of SQL scripting and proven capability of writing sophisticated queries to analyse problems, and interrogate data pipelinesDesirable
Experience with deploying automated testing within Azure DevOps based CI / CD pipelinesExperience with testing using Azure Data FactoryExperience a range of testing methodologies and techniques including agile, with the ability to write test procedures, plans and report development / implementation.