Test Engineer

We are looking to onboard a Test Engineer for a Central Government Organisation to join a Government Digital Service and to help enable efficient delivery of the technical solution and overall service, through efficient and effective Quality Assurance and Testing using several techniques and delivering a number of outcomes.
The role will involve:

• Functional, non-functional and integration testing (inside the solution and with other downstream systems) is in scope to ensure the service and infrastructure meets the needs of public and internal users.
• Meeting the GDS standard is critical and requires automated testing within the build and deployment pipeline.
• Analysing User Stories or Use Cases to create functional test scenarios
• Analysis of non-functional requirements to create non-functional test cases
• Creation of test scripts
• Execution of test scripts and recording of results.
• Implementing automated testing framework for the execution and reporting to enable fast efficient iterations of the solution
• Implementing non-functional testing to prove resilience for a public facing service
• Managing User Acceptance Testing involving small numbers of users/other project teams where integration to such services exists
• Defect reporting and tracking
• Attending and inputting to agile ceremonies i.e. stand up/retro/planning
• Provision of Test Plans and Test Completion Reports as required
• Creation of API test frameworks for integration within the service, and assurance of other integration testing with systems outside of delivery team scope
• Stakeholder management to ensure clear understanding of QA activity and support confidence in the service
• Ensuring Industry QAT best practices in agile are adhered too

The right candidate will need experience in:

• Working as a Test Engineer on a GDS project
• UI Testing
• API Testing
• Functional & Non-Functional Testing
• Working in an agile environment
• JavaScript / Node.js based platforms
• Creating Test Scripts
• Defect Reporting & Tracking
• Good stakeholder management

Role: Test Engineer
Rate: £400 - £550 per day (Inside IR35)
Contract: 6 months initially, view to extend
Working Pattern: Fully Remote
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