Senior Automation QA Engineer (C#) Offline

We are looking for a Senior Automation QA Engineer for a British product company. You will work with the existing London and Ukraine development teams.

The QA Engineer will expand our Quality assurance team and work closely with the data-focused development team. The QA Engineer will be interested in all things data, and web technologies & be passionate about testing. You will report into the Head of QA, working with a team of developers across data-centric projects. Testing-related activities will include developing and designing test plans, scenarios, and acceptance criteria, production of test scripts and test execution as well as being involved in test coordination and management with a focus on data.

About the company:

Argus is a fast-growing global B2B media company providing essential information on commodity markets. As a business, we continue to grow and evolve, adding new markets, new services, new delivery options and improved analytical tools. ArgusMedia is an independent media organisation with 1,200 staff. It is headquartered in London and has 28 offices in the world’s principal commodity trading and production centers. The company produces price assessments and analyses of international energy and other commodity markets and offers bespoke consulting services and industry-leading conferences.

About the project:

Our client created five types of platforms, which help to deliver information instantly to customers. They collect and maintain complex data sets to help their customers understand the market, providing analysis, visualization, and expert opinion daily.

Responsibilities:

- Plan to test

- Promote and implement the Argus test Strategy

- Provide a means of validating the ingestion, transformation, and storage of data from various sources

- Creation and maintenance of a test pipeline around microservices

- Providing adequate detail on the quality status of a feature or features within a development cycle to the dev team and stakeholders

- Conduct functional, integration testing activities during an agile development cycle

- Guide and lead the development team in the application and design of quality measurement approaches and techniques

Requirements:

- English Upper-Intermediate or higher

- Design data quality checks against large data sets

- 3+ years of proven automation in C#/Playwright with specflow as well as a manual testing background.

- Perform advanced data mining and data analysis to measure and report on datasets as part of data discovery and test creation

- A strong background and understanding of server-side testing

- Challenge assumptions with logical reasoning

- Advanced knowledge of postman

- Strong exposure to the automation frameworks adding new tests and maintenance

- Strong SQL skills

- Design and facilitate UAT sessions.

- Experience of collaborating with programmers and business experts in data science

- Desire and capability to learn new technologies.

- Demonstrate the use and advantages of heuristic evaluation during software testing

- Knowledge of Agile methodology and processes as a tester

- Creation of and maintenance of an automation suite used as part of sprint and regression testing

Benefits:

- Annual Salary review

- Group healthcare and life assurance scheme

- 25 days holiday with annual increase up to 30 days

- Free access to O’Reilly Books Online and Udemy

- No overtime. 40 hours per week maximum

- 1000£ to arrange your workplace

- Managers will help to build a personal development plan and grow

- Developer-friendly environment, clever, friendly colleagues

- Minimum corporate interference

Hiring process:

- HR Prescreen call (~30 min)

- Call with Head of QA (~40 min)

- Technical Interview (~2 hours)

Are you interested?

Please feel free to contact us if you need any further information