Role specifics

• Salary range: up to £50k depending on skills and experience
• Reporting to: Tech Lead
• Key stakeholders: Test Engineers, Director of Development, Platform and DX team, CTO
• Organisational Framework Level: 2 – Technical Contributor

About you/ Job Summary

As a Senior Test Engineer at Clue, you will be a critical member of an agile development team to functionality test stories using automation during each sprint and work closely with other members of the team to feedback your findings, while helping to identify and implement areas of improvement in the software quality process. Alongside this you will be technically leading and advancing test automation and integrating these into our agile development workflow. The agile team will consist of software developers, product owners and a release manager, all working together to ensure delivery of a quality product.

Clue's testing vision is for an automation first approach, and as such you will be focused on testing new and existing features using automated test techniques and critically technically leading the expansion of our automation test coverage

There will be a need to perform manual testing, but the drive is to automate where possible.

You will be a test automation advocate and have experience of leading automating testing including introducing new test frameworks.

Key Accountabilities

• Technically leading and driving an automation first mentality within the test team and increasing the automation test coverage.
• Demonstrable experience of developing and maintaining API and UI Automated tests.
• Strong Experience of testing web-based applications across the full-stack, from the front end/user interfaces, through to backend and databases
• Defining and creating test cases in line with story acceptance criteria, maintaining test plans and documenting test results in Azure DevOps
• Be an active member of a Clue agile team, attending and contributing to all agile ceremonies. Whilst regularly reviewing progress and feeding back your status.

• Provide accurate effort estimations for work based upon the Product overview and Acceptance Criteria.

• Assist with the development of automated test scripts, data, and scenarios in accordance with the documented approach.

• Embed, Run, and maintain the automated tests prescribed within the Automation Test Framework.

• Analyse (and document if needed) defects discovered during release testing.

Key role measures

• Rapid increase in automation test coverage
• Ensure automation test cases are created and followed according to the acceptance criteria on a story

• Work in an open, collaborative way with all other team members, report automation metrics and champion quality in software development lifecycle.

• Bring new ideas and improvements to the existing test process and share these with the team.

• Evaluate and improve the efficiency and stability of automated test processes

Experience and skills

Our ideal candidate would have experience in the following areas:

• Demonstrable experience as an automation first ISTQB Certified Tester and confidence with strong knowledge of Automation testing and frameworks 
• Experience of leading a small test team would be beneficial
• Demonstratable skills in non-functional automation testing
• Experience of rapidly increasing test coverage for a cloud SaaS platform

• Proven experience with test plan management, fault diagnoses, and automated testing against a web-based application.

• A proven track record of functional testing at various levels such as:

• Integration Testing
• Smoke Testing
• User Acceptance Testing
• Interface Testing/Usability Testing
• System Testing
• API Testing
• Regression Testing

• Excellent experience with using Microsoft Visual Studio and Katalon Studio for automation development JavaScript, and SQL Server.

• An understanding and proficiency in working as an active member of an agile development team, and the ability to demonstrate a good knowledge of Scrum and QA methodologies

• Proactive attitude with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. With the ability to work in a flexible and adaptable ongoing environment

• Excellent communication and coordination skills, and cooperative outlook. Good written and oral communication skills.

• Knowledge of using Azure DevOps to manage your work, as well as maintenance of build and deployment pipelines, alongside Octopus Deploy would be beneficial

• Strong test planning, time management, and change management skills, involving prioritising and reprioritising testing task across multiple functional groups and departments.

• Experience in Continuous integration and Continuous development systems in Azure.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway and tell us more about yourself. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

We believe that seeing the world from all sorts of angles makes life better for all. We want you to know that the things that make you an individual, like your identity, age, ethnicity, religion, ability and background, are things that we choose to celebrate and support.

We are a scale-up company, and as we continue to grow, we are passionate that having a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace will remain at our core. We are creating an inclusive environment where our people can thrive.

Our values are aligned and at the heart of everything we do. We are respectful, united, rigorous, relentless and ethical