Automation Tester at Mansion House Consulting, London, £425 per day

*London/Hybrid*

Are you a passionate and confident QA Tester, with recent experience working in Financial Services, ready to make a significant contribution working for one of the UK\'s fastest growing Financial Services Consultancies?

Then read on!

MHC Overview:

MHC are an award-winning IT and Business Consultancy, specialising in Change Management initiatives, which we deliver working in a collaborative way with our Clients. We are currently working on a wide variety of assignments that include some major Digital Transformation initiatives, Regulatory and Compliance Programmes and Tools adoption projects where we are providing specialist technical and business services to a client base of primarily Tier 1 Banks.

You will have the confidence and the capability to step straight into a specialist consultancy role within one of MHC\'s Practice areas to provide effective and efficient solutions that support our Clients\' business requirements, while working constructively with senior MHC and Client managers and other staff.

Role holder will be responsible for analysing the functionality of products and designing automated tests to validate their performance.

Test Automation Engineer will work with the Business Analyst to ensure that Quality Assurance is planned in the delivery and achieved.

Main Duties

• Automate the existing backlog of manual API tests
• Build automated API tests using Java, Selenium and Rest Assured
• Build performance simulations using Gatling (Scala based)
• Build/improve the current test automation frameworks
• Work with the test lead and existing testing resources to improve test automation capabilities
• Perform test assurance activities - ensuring agile tea ms are meeting quality assurance standards

Essential Skills & Experience

• Must have minimum 5 years in testing with most of the roles in test automation/development
• Degree in Computer Science/Engineering with ISEB qualifications
• London based resource (may be required to come into London Canary Wharf office 1 day a week)
• API Scripting/programming experience with REST, Cucumber and Java
• Experience with Performance testing tools - Gatling
• Recent experience with HP Performance Center/LRE is a plus
• Experience with BDD and Gherkin driven agile methodology
• Working experience with CI/CD tools such as Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Jira and Confluence
• Strong manual testing skills with postman and SQL queries
• Excellent problem solving skills in relation to finding simple solutions to problems
• Business Knowledge
• Experience of working in the Control/Conduct space - advantageous
• Experience of time - critical regulatory remediation projects in Banking - advantageous

If this sounds like something that could be of interest, please apply for consideration.