Job Description    

This role is one that demands curiosity, a passion for learning on the job and being managed to build up a skill set that will enable the team member to confidently identify, plan, design, develop, and maintain projects and processes that can extend the reach of automation with the goal of reducing/redirecting manual testing costs while increasing product quality. As part of the Associate Automation Test Engineer role, the team member must adhere to the team processes and test standards already in place and develop an appreciation and understanding of test practices and principles. The Associate Automation Test Engineer will work closely with the delivery team to accurately record and communicate issues found during test phases and accurately record time spent on tasks during the project.
Key Responsibilities    

• Gain an understanding of how customers use the products under test
• Gain an understanding of formal testing principles, approaches and test automation tools and techniques e.g. rapid software testing, security testing, usability testing, load testing, automating principles
• Seek to learn and demonstrate a level of understanding of the system under test to allow creation of automation tests
• Follow a test plan and execute against this in a timely manner to deliver on sprint goals
• Create automation tests that maximise the efficiency of the test phase, cover all requirements and allow for a timely delivery of products and/or components
• Run and maintain existing test automation scripts for the product or component under test
• Demonstrate continuous improvement in product and/or component knowledge
• Demonstrate an understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and continuous improvement of practices in it
• Carry out such tasks as directed to meet the needs of the business
• Participate in the definition of automation test objectives, strategies, processes, standards and metrics and share with other disciplines so they understand how the automation integrates within the tasks of a project.
• Participate in the development of automation project plans, scope, schedule and implementation of test and project level architecture within the automation framework. This will involve communicating both internally and externally with cross functional areas impacted by automation.
• Interaction and support of Test Engineers and Developers within projects to understand where automation is most valuable and as part of these interactions share automation skills
• Track and analyse test results, take corrective action, report automation summaries, and update statuses
• Participate in the analysis, design, development, and ongoing maintenance of automated tests and automation architecture for ATP/XTreeM

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree/Diploma in computer science, computer engineering or a similar field