Ecommerce Test Automation Specialist

3 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Waterstones Full time
Quality Assurance Engineer Role at Waterstones

We are seeking a skilled Quality Assurance Engineer to join our Ecommerce team at Waterstones Head Office in Piccadilly, London.

About the Role

This is a hybrid role based between home and office, offering a great work-life balance. As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you will be responsible for testing web, desktop, and mobile applications to ensure high-quality products and an excellent user experience.

The successful candidate will have functional testing experience across multiple platforms, including Ecommerce, mobile, and app environments. You will understand cloud-based environments and be confident in multi-tasking.

You will be part of our dynamic Ecommerce team and will work closely with colleagues to achieve our goals.

Key Responsibilities
  • Programmatically test and report on new features and projects within an ecommerce environment.
  • Participate in release planning and sprint planning, providing test effort estimation.
  • Collaborate in requirements specification and backlog-grooming sessions.
  • Identify areas of improvement and build upon best practices.
  • Produce and regularly update technical documentation.
  • Identify, record, document, and track defects.
  • Participate in defect triage meetings.
  • Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to stakeholders.
  • Capture and track quality assurance metrics.
  • Escalate issues, risks, and impediments appropriately and in a timely manner.
  • Measure and report on the coverage and quality of the Platform.
  • Provide insightful input to retrospectives.
Requirements

To succeed in this role, you will need:

  • In-depth knowledge of testing paradigms and processes.
  • Knowledge of Agile, Iterative development process, and methodologies.
  • Knowledge of test methodologies, tools, and processes.
  • Experience of Functional Testing and regression testing.
  • Experience of Atlassian suite of tools (Jira & Confluence).
  • Experience of automated-testing of web-applications.
  • Experience of device testing for Web and Mobile applications.
  • Experience in test automation, refactoring code, debugging, and testing frameworks.
  • Java/JavaScript programming skills.
  • Ability to work with undocumented or sparsely documented systems.
  • Experience with Java-Selenium-based test automation.
  • Experience using IntelliJ, Maven, and Git.
  • Experience developing new automated frameworks and adding to/improving existing automation suites.
  • Experience with device farms such as SmartBeat and BrowserStack.
  • Experience using Playwright tool.
  • Experience with automated testing of Mobile applications.
  • Experience in the retail industry.
What We Offer

As a Quality Assurance Engineer at Waterstones, you can expect a competitive salary of £60,000 - £80,000 per annum, depending on experience.

We strive to deliver exceptional customer service, whether recommending a book or a gift, keeping our shops beautifully stocked, helping out in our lovely Café W's, or keeping the wheels turning efficiently behind the scenes.



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