Data Test Automation Engineer

Data Test Automation Engineer
Location: Brighton (1-2 days a week in the office)
Salary: 55,000 - 65,000 (plus bonus, excellent benefits)
Permanent

Skills: Selenium and/or Playwright, SQL Server, Backend Testing

In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing automated test scripts to validate the functionality of our data analytics platform. This is a largely green field opportunity, working alongside rapidly maturing multidisciplinary platform and development teams.

Within this role, you'll be operating within an exciting and dynamic company-wide technology change programme, which will see the development and delivery of new systems enabling us to support regulatory activity in the business.

Responsibilities

• From scratch, develop the product and development teams' approach to testing - e.g. a framework for test driven development
• Design and develop automated test scripts with a focus on SQL-based data validation, ensuring the accuracy of data flows and transformation.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, enhancing the platform's development workflow and efficiency.
• Lead investigative work into problems and opportunities in existing processes.
• Input into the overall TPR Test Team strategy, think creatively, ask the right questions and critically evaluate and communicate findings to the larger team.
• Be the person on-point and overall responsible for the automation testing delivery within the Platform team.
• Demonstrate knowledge of emerging tools and techniques.
• Effectively work across different tools and software languages.
• Advise on up-to-date functional and non-functional testing techniques.

Essential

• Professional experience with manual and automation testing of back-end systems, with a strong emphasis on data validation
• Experience of SQL scripting and proven capability of writing sophisticated queries to analyse problems, and interrogate data pipelines

Desirable

• Experience with deploying automated testing within Azure DevOps based CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with testing using Azure Data Factory
• Experience a range of testing methodologies and techniques including agile, with the ability to write test procedures, plans and report development/implementation.