Graduate Automated Tester

Type: Graduate
Region: London

The Graduate Automated Tester will join a dynamic development team working on a range of exciting projects using cutting-edge technologies. The intention is to expand the business over the next 2-3 years.Activities will include building out the next generation of highly-scalable, reusable and performant distributed services and applications for Smarter Technologies extensive and diverse range of customers and clients. The successful candidate will need to hit the ground running, with a proven track record in software development of enterprise-class solutions that consistently exceed customer expectations.

Key Responsibilities:

Designing, building, testing and maintaining efficient, reusable and reliable unit-tested code.

Implementing solutions using a range of languages and technologies.

Assisting with understanding customer requirements, technical design and estimation.

Taking personal responsibility for ensuring all code that goes to production is of top quality and meets customer requirements and needs.

Ensuring new and existing applications are scaled to meet expected demand.

Continuously improving the software infrastructure, such as the deployment process.

Undertaking code reviews, providing constructive feedback and advising on best practice and coding standards.

Testing both backend and frontend of the application.

Develop and maintain UI and API tests and automated test frameworks

Maintain the implementation of the delivery pipeline, including test automation, framework.

Verify system functionality by executing automated and manual tests, analyzing results.

Ensure that the software meets the business and quality requirements

Review and debug code.

Collaborate with developers, and product managers to understand user requirements, business goals, and technical constraints.

Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code using a range of languages

Ability to design, implement and automate smoke, regression and performance tests

Integrate automate tests into CI / CD pipelines

Use automated solutions to ensure User Interfaces are accessible and adhere to WCAG 2.1

Assist in creating and maintaining the testing framework

Stay updated with the latest trends, techniques, and best practices in UX design and development.]

Essential Requirements, Qualifications, Skills and Abilities:

Educated to degree level, or equivalent, preferably in subjects related to Information Technology.

Delivering solutions using Agile methods (Scrum, XP, etc), utilising Test-Driven Development, code refactoring, with a strong awareness of the principles of creating clean code.

Developing and delivering software for commercial and public sector organisations, with a logical approach to problem solving.

Cloud-computing platforms and services (ideally Azure).

Using source control tools such as Git

Confident demonstrating test results in show and tells to product owner, business stakeholders and end users

The following technologies:

C# / .NET Framework, ASP.NET Core

Playwright / Selenium framework

Postman for API testing

Newman for API Automation

HTML5, CSS

GitHub Actions

Git

YAML

Understanding of Azure Technologies

Personal attributes and competencies

Passionate about software development, and producing high quality, innovative code and solutions.

A quick learning capability, easily picking up new technical concepts.

Ability to spot trends in the market and implement most efficient technologies.

A can-do, self-motivated attitude, with a strong attention to detail.

The ability to work on multiple concurrent projects and priorities.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, plus a relentless ability to come up with different ideas and initiatives that will help the business to achieve its objectives

Desirable Requirements Qualifications, Skills and Abilities:

A good understanding of working with a public sector organisation.

Experience of creating CI / CD pipelines utilising Github Actions

Understanding of backend technologies and APIs.

Knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git).

Exposure to Agile development methodologies.