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Automation Tester

Employer
BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Closing date
16 Feb 2022
Reference
101677

Job Details

We are recruiting for an experienced Automation Tester to join our team working for a Central Government client.  The role of Automation Tester is to create technical solutions to improve test process efficiency and validate the quality of the system.  It's important that our Automation Testers are able to apply prior technical experience and techniques to develop test frameworks/products, automated tests and enable continuous delivery.

Key Responsibilities

  • Experience automating functional testing of software, writing scripts in Java, using tools such as Selenium, Cucumber, Rest-assured or Wiremock and/or Experience working with users to design and conduct manual testing
  • Experience in designing and implementing integration, security, performance, resilience or operational testing.
  • A proven track record of testing software developments in a structured environment
  • Work closely with development teams to reproduce and resolve defects
  • Ability to work in a changing environment, adapting to changing requirements and priorities

Requirements

  • Experience of working with Agile (Scrum/Kanban) delivery methodologies.
  • TDD, BDD Continuous integration and release management.
  • Developing tests for functional and regression testing that includes manual, automated, performance and ad hoc testing
  • Comprehensive understanding of Automated Testing best practices.
  • Ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively within a software development team
  • Experience using testing frameworks (e.g. TestNG, xUnit) to script tests
  • Working knowledge of test case management tools (e.g. JIRA) to track defects and manage tests
  • Knowledge of both the Software Testing life cycle and the Software Development lifecycle
  • Working with cloud environments and tools e.g AWS

Life at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence 

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day. By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance wellbeing.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Applied Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential. 

About BAE Systems Applied Intelligence

We use our intelligence-led insights to help defend Governments, Nations and Societies from cyber-attacks and financial crime. Our customers depend on our evolving capabilities to help them safely grow their organisations. Our unprecedented access to threat intelligence, world-leading analysts and market-leading technology means we can help them to adapt, evolve and stay ahead of the criminals.

Division overview: Government

At BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Government contracts are an area we have many decades of experience in. Our Government business unit houses four of our critical client groups: UK National Security, Global National Security, defence and central government. Government and key infrastructure networks are critical targets to defend as the effects of these networks being breached can be devastating.

As a member of the Government business unit, you will defend the connected world and ensure the protection of nations. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.

Company

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,800 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 16 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we believe that digital technology is the key to unlocking our customers’ advantage. By advancing digital technologies, we open doors to worlds of opportunities, together. We work across 6 main areas, Cyber, Defence, Delivery & Advisory, FinCrime, Intelligence and Space. Come visit us at the expo, or our website, to learn more about our opportunities.

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