UKEF is committed to be a more customer-centric organisation, making it easier for customers to deal with us, offering improved response times, quicker decision-making and improved case-processing. To enable this, UKEF is committed to using digital as a primary means for managing relationships with a wider range of stakeholders. Focusing on developing end-to-end services that meet user need and enable business outcomes, this is an exciting new role showing the growth and drive of UKEFs digital ambition.

This role requires you to develop and maintain automated testing frameworks, define and document test plans and cases, identify and report defects, lead performance, end-to-end, API and load testing, and document test activities and progress reports.

As a QA Analyst (Automation Testing),your main responsibilities would be:

• Develop, implement, and maintain automated testing frameworks and test scripts.
• Define and document test plans, test cases, and test scripts for various applications and platforms.
• Identify and report defects and issues found during automated testing.
• Create and maintain automated regression test suites.
• Participate in the preparation and execution of user acceptance testing (UAT), End-to-End and API testing.
• Lead the creation and execution of performance, load, and stress testing.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure that automated tests are integrated into the continuous integration and deployment pipeline.
• Ensure that test automation best practices are followed and continuously improved.
• Monitor and analyse test results, identify trends and issues, and communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Continuously improve the quality of test automation by researching and adopting new tools and techniques.
• Participate in the development of user stories and acceptance criteria to ensure testability.
• Review and analyse business and technical requirements to ensure that they are testable and complete.
• Work with stakeholders to prioritize testing efforts based on risk and business impact.
• Identify opportunities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the testing process.
• Participate in the evaluation and selection of testing tools and technologies.
• Review requirement specifications and determine their suitability for defining appropriate tests.
• Define test environment and test data requirements.
• Prepare test environments and test data.
• Record incidents arising during system and integration testing and re-test after application of remedial measures.
• Document test activities and production of progress reports/metrics.

You’ll have relevant experience in:

• You will need to hold active SC Clearance to be considered for this role.
• Using test automation tools, including Telerik Test Studio, Tricentis, or TestRigor.
• Preparing test design documents and evaluating test outcomes.
• Structured testing techniques, full test lifecycle and risk-based testing in context of testing complex line of business applications.
• Writing automated API, End-To-End, Regression and Performance testing.
• Working in an Agile environment.
• Using Postman and CI/CD tools (such as DevOps or Github).
• Writing automated test cases for Salesforce CRM.
• Writing Test Strategies.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know on rebecca.nolan@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

In applying for this role you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.