Quality Automation Specialist, Appium

Join us as a Quality Automation Specialist

• In this key role, you’ll be undertaking and enabling automated testing activities in all delivery models
• We’ll look to you to support teams to develop quality solutions and enable continuous integration and assurance of defect free deployment of customer value
• Working in a fast paced environment, you'll benefit from great variety in your work as well as excellent exposure as you work closely with a variety of people across the bank
• We're offering this role at vice president level

What you'll do

As a Quality Automation Specialist, you’ll be contributing to the transformation of testing using quality processes, tools and methodologies, significantly improving control, accuracy and integrity. You’ll make sure repeatable, constant and consistent quality is built into all phases of the idea to value life cycle at reduced cost or reduced time to market, to guarantee that any defects are identified as early as possible.

It’s a highly collaborative role, in which you’ll have the chance to work with colleagues at multiple levels, and with domain, platform and feature teams, to build in quality as an integral part of all activities.

Additionally, you’ll be:

• Evolving more predictive and intelligent testing approaches based on automation and innovative testing products and solutions
• Collaborating with your team to define and refine the scope of manual and automated testing, the creation of automated test scripts, user documentation and artefacts
• Making sure decisions are based on robust data, return on investment and value measures that demonstrate thoughtful and intelligent cost management
• Enabling the cross skilling of colleagues with the skills and benefits of end-to-end automation testing

The skills you'll need

You'll need at least 12 years of experience in mobile application testing, particularly in an Agile development or CI/CD environment. You’ll be an innovative thinker who can identify opportunities and design solutions, coupled with the ability to develop complex automation code.

You’ll have a good understanding of Agile methodologies and experience of working in an Agile team, with the ability to relate everyday work to the strategic vision of the feature.

We’ll also look for you to have:

• Experience in mobile application testing both iOS and Android along with solid understanding of mobile app architectures and lifecycles
• Expertise in Appium for mobile automation along with API testing to support mobile microservices automation
• Strong proficiency in one programming language such as Java, JavaScript and Kotlin
• Experience in CI/CD tools such as Github, Gitlab, Jenkins, TeamCity and Azure DevOps

Hours

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