Senior Automation Engineer

The Role

PTX is a business payments platform that allows businesses and organisations of any size in the UK to make payments using Bacs, Faster Payments, cheques and to receive payments via Direct debit. 

As a QA Automation Engineer, you will work within an agile SCRUM team for PTX, on Bottomline’s innovative Payments and Financial Document Automation SaaS solutions. You will bring enthusiasm, and experience to the role, while working with current technologies to build innovative functionality and evolve our class leading solution into a micro-service based, ‘public cloud ready’ solution and participate in investigating new technologies, developing prototypes, new products, features and architectural discussions. 

How you will contribute

• Provide functional and technical expertise within a product domain area.
• Develop and maintain tests in an existing test automation framework.
• Develop tests for Rest APIs and Messaging systems like Kafka.
• Work as a full partner with the development team to include all hooks and debug tools that will help to drive quality. 
• Participate in all planning and estimation practices. 
• Produce status reports and quality metrics.
• Contribute establishing, revising, and verifying quality standards, processes, and procedures.  
• Create and analyse testing artefacts - test plans, test cases, and user scenarios. 

What will Make you successful?

• Working experience with software testing 
• Experience and solid understanding of Agile practices (SCRUM) 
• Ability to perform tests against Web applications, both front-end UI as well as back-end databases, application servers, and services 
• Working knowledge and experience with JIRA, Confluence and UNIX/LINUX 
• Test reporting knowledge. 
• Experience in working Gitlab/Jenkins 
• Ability to read, write and analyse SQL database queries (Oracle/Postgres)
• Bi-Lingual (English)