Job Description

Job description:The Core Modernisation team follows agile principles, on a two-week sprint cadence, with multiple scrum teams forming the overall engineering team.Quality Engineers are the custodians of quality within the scrum team, who implement the Core Modernisation Test Approach defined by the QA Stream Lead. They embody the Quality Engineering approach: Ensuring quality is a full team responsibility across all test levelsGoverning and supporting the whole team to follow best practiceAchieving the appropriate level of test coverage throughout the test lifecycleEnabling the use of automated tools to ?shift left? quality assurance and reduce risk ? shortening the feedback loop for proving featuresEnsure applications are built to be tested via automation.Supports manual testing when all automation avenues have been exhausted.Main roles and responsibilities include:Designing and implementing test solutions and the automation to support these, often from scratch, bying best practice approachesing structured testing and automation approaches, utilising technologies aligned with TDD/BDDBringing a breadth of experience of testing within the CI/CD lifecycle, its supporting technologies and experience of automation testing frameworksing test approaches anding risk-based testing methodologiesUpskilling the engineering team to increase QA capability as a whole team responsibilityImplementing test design techniques, strong test analysis skillsKnowledge of databases and test data creationing best practices when identifying and managing Test data