QA Automation Engineer

* QA Automation Engineer
- Python
- Automation
Our client is looking for an QA Automation Engineer - who has a little Python experience to join the team. Their products have revolutionised certain aspects of video and broadcast.
Based in London our client are offering a hybrid option and a great benefits package including the ability to work anywhere in the world for 10 days a year.
This is a great opportunity for some with 2+ years within Automaton, Python.

**Responsibilities**:

- Participate in selecting the most appropriate test tools and test techniques for the business
- Use risk-driven techniques to develop, maintain and execute automated test suites
- Review requirements, agree acceptance criteria and refer to project/system documentation to clarify and define the necessary tests
- Scheduling and requesting use of test environments, appropriate test data to support Test Plans.
- Perform testing cycles including System Tests, Functional/Non-functional Tests, Exploratory Tests, End-to-End Tests etc.
- Creation and maintenance of regression test packs, including an automated E2E and acceptance test suite to be run nightly
- Communicate to relevant stakeholders the latest status, issues and risks of test activities (escalating as appropriate)
- Actively participate in agile ceremonies providing the QA perspective and input into every user story and refinement session
- Must have confidence to speak up and hold developers to account where necessary.
Qualifications:
Skills and Experiences:

- At least 2 years proven software testing experience: automated and manual
- Appium - cross-platform test automation tool for native, hybrid and mobile web and desktop apps
- Browser and HTML5 testing
- C/C++
- REST API solutions
- Use of at least 1 BDD testing tool (eg Spock, Cucumber), Cucumber preferred
- Use of standard Agile techniques (eg Scrum, Kanban etc.) and tools (eg JIRA)
- Continuous integration environments covering: source code repositories; version control; build creation; unit, integration and system tests.
Desirable skills:

- Has experience of JUnit, JMeter
- Has exposure to pytest, google test framework
- Has worked with AWS cloud solutions
- Strong technical experience and fluent in technical communications
- Expertise in the end-to-end software development life cycle
- Demonstrable track record in a delivery-focused role
- Should have some hands-on experience with modern databases like mysql, postgresql, mongoDB
- Should understand system architecture and basic concepts of networking for networking traffic testing the debugging.
- Good understanding of the Linux operating system.
- Strong analytical frame of mind
- Knowledge of Embedded systems.
- Understanding of video and common compression features, particularly video - lossy, lossless, quality metrics, colour spaces.
- Understanding of broadcast video techniques and technology - HD-SDI & 3G-SDI Over IP