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About the Role

As a QA Engineer, you will work at one of our clients performing high-quality functional and non-functional testing on complex systems. You must be familiar with Agile practices and tools and able to work in a fast-paced CI/CD environment. You will be proactive and always look for ways to improve automated tests for efficiency. You can work closely with developers, devops engineers, and business stakeholders to understand the impact of software on end users and provide accurate updates on testing progress and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Perform functional and non-functional testing, working within an Agile team.
• Develop and maintain test automation solutions and scripts, promoting best practices.
• Develop and maintain performance/load/stress testing solutions using standard or open-source tools.
• Resolve problems and blockers as they occur and help to unlock the progress of testing.
• Collaborate, communicate & work effectively with geographically distributed cross-functional teams.
• Defect Management, ensuring that defects are effectively triaged and managed until resolution.
• Promote the value of solid testing practices to all delivery stakeholders and influence adoption of best practice.

Requirements

• Experience with devising TDD/BDD or Acceptance Test Driven Development strategies using a range of tools/frameworks.
• Strong Java coding experience and knowledge of automated test frameworks.
• Strong experience using API testing tools.
• Strong experience with Selenium, C# specFlow, BDD framework.
• Experience with integrating testing as part of the Secure-SDLC and CI/CD tooling in a DevSecOps environment.
• Experience with testing citizen facing services.
• Experience with testing highly scalable, distributed, cloud native applications.
• Experience using formal Test Management tools.
• Good awareness of Application Lifecycle Management and IT Service Management.
• Must be eligible for SC Clearance.

Skills

• Serenity
• RestAssured
• Postman
• Selenium
• C# specFlow
• BDD framework
• GitHub
• Jenkins
• GitLab SaaS
• Artifactory
• Nexus
• Jira/Confluence
• ALM
• Splunk
• Grafana
• ServiceNow
• JavaScript Automation Frameworks
• WebdriverIO
• Playwright
• K6

Location

• UK-based

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 30+ years experience

Education Level

• ISEB Certification in Software Testing

Benefits

• Autonomy to develop and grow skills and experience
• Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
• Strong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership
• A supportive and collaborative environment
• Development access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme and training
• 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme
• Social events
• Commitment to charitable causes
• 25 days a year time off
• Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
• Discretionary Company Bonus based on company and individual performance
• Life Assurance of 4 times base salary
• Private Medical Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
• Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)

About the Company

• Methods is a £100M+ IT Services Consultancy who has partnered with a range of central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK.
• Established over 30 years ago and UK-based, we apply our skills in transformation, delivery, and collaboration from across the Methods Group, to create end-to-end business and technical solutions that are people-centred, safe, and designed for the future.
• Our human touch sets us apart from other consultancies, system integrators and software houses - with people, technology, and data at the heart of who we are, we believe in creating value and sustainability through everything we do for our clients, staff, communities, and the planet.
• We support our clients in the success of their projects while working collaboratively to share skill sets and solve problems.
• At Methods we have fun while working hard; we are not afraid of making mistakes and learning from them.
• Predominantly focused on the public-sector, Methods is now building a significant private sector client portfolio.
• Methods was acquired by the Alten Group in early 2022. Alten is a global engineering firm with approximately 57,000 employees specializing in engineering and IT services.
• Methods is driven by a desire to improve public services for the benefit of all the people who use them, leveraging current technologies to deliver user centred solutions and having an internal culture that allows our staff to express themselves and be innovative.