Senior Automation Tester - Dundee, United Kingdom - Social Security Scotland

Social Security Scotland
Social Security Scotland
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Dundee, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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Overview:
**Senior Automation Tester | Hybrid Working with Glasgow or Dundee Base Location | £ £ £5,000 DDaT Pay Supplement after 3 month qualifying period | Full or Part Time Hours | Flexi
- time | 25 Days annual leave (increasing to 30 after 4 years' service) plus 11.5 Public and Privilege| Contributory Pension Scheme (employee contributions 5.45% employer contributions %)|**The Testing Team is part of the Technologies and Platforms branch and handles all testing services for the programme and live operations. The team consistently delivers a quality service and our QAT practice helps us maintain and improve the services needed for delivery. We're a small, diverse team with plans for future growth and we're excited to welcome new members who can help shape and develop our practice and ways of working.


What do we offer you?


We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops, and retains only the best talent.

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  • Salary between £ £49860 plus a £5000 annual Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) pay supplement after a 3 month qualifying period. This supplement is backdated and paid with your monthly salary.
  • Flexible working arrangements with potential of up to 4 days off per month.
  • You will have an annual leave allowance of 5 weeks, rising to 6 weeks after 4 years. In addition, the Scottish Government observes 111⁄2 days public and privilege holidays, dates of which are set annually.
  • Workplace adjustments for everyone that needs them to ensure your comfort and safety in your new role.
  • Learning and development opportunities to support your personal and professional growth.
  • Career progression join a rapidly growing and developing organisation with excellent opportunities for career advancement.
  • Contributory Pension Scheme (employee contributions 5.45% employer contributions %).
  • Health and wellbeing support including 24 hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme, plus counselling support available for all.
  • Discounts on gym memberships and retail outlets.

DDaT

Pay Supplement

Hybrid Working

About Us

  • Social Security Scotland is an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government. Our benefits help people from all walks of life in Scotland. We are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce that is representative of the clients we serve.
Find out more about us here


Responsibilities:


As a Senior Automation Tester, you will:

  • Ensure quality and minimise risk of technology products.
  • Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to create and improve test plans and cases.
  • Estimate, prioritise, plan, and coordinate testing activities.
  • Design, develop, and execute automation scripts.
  • Identify, record, document, and track bugs during the software development lifecycle.
  • Provide thorough regression testing when resolved.
  • Lead and support junior staff on projects.
  • Present project output to senior stakeholders.
  • Implement test frameworks and mentor team members in testing.
  • Have strong experience in industry standard techniques and understand Test Heuristics.
  • Experience using deployment tools such as Jenkins and ADO to trigger automated test execution.
  • Experience Working with Selenium and Cucumber
  • Identify automation opportunities and understand Agile, DevOps, and continuous testing approaches, as well as onpremise and cloud architectures.

Qualifications:
No specific qualifications are required for this post.

As a Senior Automation Tester, you will have:

  • Relevant qualifications or experience in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
  • Extensive experience in software testing, with significant experience as an Automation Tester.
  • Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
  • Excellent analytical and problemsolving skills.
  • Strong communication skills and able to work collaboratively as part of a team.
  • Ability and previous experience mentoring and coaching team members.
  • Proficiency in collaborative development tools such as Github, Confluence, and JIRA.
  • Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.

How to apply


In addition, please record your Personal Statement (no longer than 750 words) explaining why you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience suitable for this role, with particular reference to the essential criteria below.


  • Broad experience of quality assurance testing, functional; and automation.
  • Experience of designing and executing a wide range of testing techniques and communicate test results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience of defining and implementing risk based QAT strategies/polices for an agile delivery.
  • Experience of working with a supplier QAT as part of the overall QAT.
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