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 pipelinesDesirable

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