QA Automation Engineer

At Cornmarket, we look after the financial wellbeing of public servants and their families. We’ve been focused on public sector employees for over 50 years, learning how to bring our clients the best financial services – from car, home, health and life insurance, to income protection, retirement planning and beyond.

Role Purpose

We are seeking a highly skilled QA Automation Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and implementing automated testing solutions to ensure the quality of our software products.

Ensuring product quality across the product lifecycle, through requirement reviews, development, UAT and release cycles is an important aspect of this role. Strong stakeholder management skills with a commitment to collaborative problem solving with the delivery team and the business is essential.

The ideal candidate will have experience with building and maintaining strong robust test automation solutions and experience with Selenium, C# and SQL. Experience with Azure Dev Opps, Git and other automation technology framework is desired.

Accountabilities of the Role

• Lead and develop the automated testing processes.

• Assess and analyse test requirements and improvement opportunities.

• Liaise with Application Architect and Software Development Manager to ensure all developed solutions are tested effectively.

• Leverage and utilise industry test design patterns to deliver scalable and extensible solutions.

• Display excellent problem solving and strong communication skills.

• Deliver robust and high-quality testing solutions

Skills & Knowledge Required:

• 3+ years’ experience in automated software testing and demonstrated experience in test practices and technologies

• Experience in testing infrastructure across multiple teams and platforms

• Experience in automated / manual testing of web-based applications

• Experience in Azure DevOps, Selenium (with C#), NUnit, MSTest, Visual Studio

• Experience in testing for system integrations and APIs

• Experience in the full lifecycle of defect management, setting priority and severity of defects, Root Cause Analysis etc.

• Experience of working on multiple full release cycles

• Automated Testing Frameworks

• Exposure to Single Page Application frameworks (Angular, React)

• SCRUM / Agile Experience

• Strong documentation skills

• Eligibility to work in Ireland on a permanent basis

   

Desired:

• Experience with Postman, Swagger and JMeter

• Experience with Salesforce

• Continuous Integration with DevOps experience

• API Test Automation (preferably with Rest Sharp)

• Exposure to Load Testing

What We Can Offer You?

• Flexible working from home options as part of our Cornmarket Flex ways of working

• Significant investments in your professional development (e.g. insurance qualifications, professional qualifications relevant to your role)

• Annual leave (increases based on service)

• Flexi leave (option to take additional annual leave)

• Attractive & flexible pension contribution rates

• Health insurance or wellness subsidy

• Fully paid family leave types (maternity/paternity/surrogacy)

• Performance based bonus/commission

• Income protection

• Life cover

• Discounts on financial products

• Comprehensive health & wellbeing programme

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Active Sports & Social Club

Behavioural Competencies

• Expertise in troubleshooting and analyzing problems

• Strong documentation and organization skills.

• Clear communication style and ability to interact effectively and responsive to needs of business partners.

• Self-motivation, flexibility and able to work on own initiative as well as in a team.

• Sound judgment and ability to quickly weigh up relative priorities and act accordingly.

• Process driven and focused on quality.

• Experience of remote management of installed systems/applications, client-server based infrastructure

  
  

Equal Opportunities & Data Privacy Notice

Cornmarket is committed to building an inclusive workplace environment, We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, striving to create a welcoming environment. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, disability, ethnic background, family status, gender identify or expression, martial status, membership of the Traveller Community, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in the employment application process. To request an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team. To review our data use practices, visit our Recruitment Data Privacy Notice.