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QA Automation Specialist

Job Req ID: 33724

Posting Date: 22 May 2024

Function: Software Engineering

Unit: Digital

Location:

RMZ Ecoworld, Devarabeesanahal, Bengaluru, India

Salary: comeptitive

Why BT?

We’ve always been an organisation with purpose; to use the power of communications to make a better world. You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world’s first telecommunications company. At our heart we’re a technology company with research and innovation in our bones and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - those are the values we live by whilst also creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.

Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale capable of achieving great things. From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe and secure, to delivering large scale technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport.

Today in this fast changing, always on, digital world our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulation and competition we face are tougher than ever before. So if you have the drive, optimism and resilience to help propel us forward we’ll offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things and pursue new careers. If that’s you and what you’re looking for, we’d love you to be part of our future.

Why this job matters

In this job, you’ll be responsible for the test automation approach and methodology for quality assurance of BT/EE platform solutions. You’ll provide technical leadership and strategic direction to automation or qa engineers, resolving the test project issues, and ensuring effective test process improvement feedback. You’ll be critical in ensuring that test architecture and test plans are up to date relative to changes in the Digital landscape. You’ll confidently lead and share knowledge with a team of engineers. You’ll be involved in planning and monitoring the execution of automation tests in CI/CD environment. You’ll define the automation first approach within development sprints, identify issues with the manual activities whilst using your own initiative to find the right solution for any faults found in dev, test and production. Excellent communication skills are required as you will be liaising with wider engineering team including operations and product teams. You will also be responsible for implementing latest technology, in line with our continuous integration and delivery goals. Working collaboratively across both QA and Engineering to achieve testability, maintainability and scalability of our software products, providing technical guidance and coaching throughout.

What you’ll be doing

• Define the test automation driven QA approach and methodology for BT/EE platform solutions

• Be Agile, Test Driven and a highly technical tester.

• Steering the direction of the automation test framework

• You will work directly with Technical Architects and define automation approach, write test plans but can still deliver hands on technically. Whether that be API testing or building test frameworks from scratch.

• Analyse competitive products and technologies with appropriate suggestions to influence product / technology direction.

• Collaborate with test and development engineers on application & testing architecture, to ensure that the approaches and technologies applied to the current implementation are sound and fit for purpose.

• Coordinating the tasks within sprints and looking at ways to automate manual activities within software delivery process.

• Design / architect and implement regular robust full build / deploy / test automation process across our digital platforms along with sub system integrations

• Coordinating test automation activities within projects, including planning and delivering the test phases on time and within budget while meeting all quality objectives.

• Understanding of programming principles and best practice (e.g. DRY, SOLID for creating re-usable code, best practice etc)

• Own the end-to-end code quality and code performance KPI’s

• Proactive monitoring of Production estate code.

Skills and Experience Required

Experience

• Experience architecting and building test automation frameworks

• Experience with cloud technology such as AWS, Azure etc.

• Experience with BDD or TDD

• TMMi experience or certification (desirable).

• ISTQB (Advanced)

• Experience working with offshore and onshore teams

• Test Management experience across major IT projects & programmes.

• Overall testing strategies and implementation experience

• Good to have People management experience

Skills

• Automation testing experience (Minimum 7 years)

• Worked with Service Virtualization of Enterprise level API driven front and backend systems

• Expertise in testing methodologies, test techniques and agile QA practices

• Experience in defining and creating API mocking/stubbing.

• Good communication skills of test status across engineering team and stakeholders

• Knowledge of Java, JavaScript, React, Flutter, NodeJS, Python, Typescript, Selenium and mobile technologies

• Expertise with automated testing tools (such as Applitools, Cypress.io, TestCafe, Selenium, Karma, Saucelabs / Browserstack)

• Background in DevOps tooling for execution of automation tests such as Jenkins, GIT, PAAS, Monitoring / Log aggregation

• Line Management of squads various QA team members

• Experience of integrating test scripts into Continuous Integration Pipelines

• Working knowledge of JIRA / Confluence

Our leadership standards

Looking in:

Leading inclusively and Safely

I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.

Owning outcomes

I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:

Delivering for the customer

I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.

Commercially savvy

I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:

Growth mindset

I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.

Building for the future

I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.