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Senior Test Automation Engineer
£45,000 - 53,000
Hudson Shribman
Station Road, Cambridge
£45,000 - 53,000
Requirements
Must:
- Significant experience in test automation within a software engineering environment
- Strong experience testing APIs and backend services
- Hands-on experience writing automation in Python
- Experience with Java, JSON, XML, and web services
- Comfortable working in a Linux development environment
- Strong troubleshooting skills across both black-box and white-box testing
- Solid understanding of authentication and authorisation mechanisms
- Experience using source control and defect tracking tools
- Experience with commerce, payments, or financial systems is advantageous
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field preferred
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and execute automated and manual tests for backend systems and APIs
- Analyse requirements and produce detailed test plans and test cases
- Maintain and extend an existing Python-based automation framework
- Develop and execute API and SDK tests, including regression, negative, and backward-compatibility testing
- Identify, log, and verify defects and work closely with engineers to resolve issues
- Contribute to quality, reliability, and testability improvements across the platform
- Test applications deployed in cloud environments
Description
We are recruiting for a Senior Test Automation Engineer to join our engineering team working on large-scale backend platforms and SDKs. This permanent role offers a hybrid or remote working option and focuses heavily on API testing and Python-based automation. We seek experienced engineers with a strong technical QA background to contribute to quality and reliability improvements across our platform.
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