Digital Delivery Test Engineer

Main Duties

• Be responsible for the design, coding, testing and documentation for robust, scalable and reusables solutions that deliver exceptional user experience using DevOps best practice
• Work closely with software developers to reach a common understanding of the code base and test coverage at unit level
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user focused and successful digital services ensuring governance standards are adhered to.
• Assist in implementing toolkits and APIs for purposes such as integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability
• Build automated tests to support our continuous deployment environment
• Identify, incidents, risks and issues in line with ITIL standards
• Drive your own training and self-development, keeping skills up to date and learning new skills
• Share knowledge and expertise with your wider team, aspire to be a role model within the organisation, champion our culture of learning, development, cross company collaboration and teamwork
• Embrace a continuous improvement ethos.
• Keeping an open mind and exploring innovative ways to solve problems, working in a fail-fast fashion to provide required functionality.
• Promote and display the IPO and Civil Service Values

Technical Skills and Experience

Essential

• Experience in delivering technical solutions
• Good understanding of a mainstream automation testing framework such as Serenity
• Experience in a mainstream development language
• Experience in Web Services, REST
• Experience with modern delivery models such as Scrum and Agile
• Understanding of DevOps principles

Desirable

• Experience with API Automation tools, such as Java, Serenity, BDD-Cucumber, Spring
• Boot and Rest-Assured
• Experience with API Performance Testing – JMeter/Java
• Experience with End to End automation – Serenity, Selenium-Web driver/Java
• Experience with running API Test Manually using tools such as PostMan
• Experience with Java and Spring
• Experience with Unit Testing
• Experience with SQL Server 2012+
• Experience with Git or another source control tool