Mobile Automation Test Engineer

About Us:

Solirius Consulting delivers technical consultancy and application delivery to our clients in order to solve real world problems and allow our clients to respond to an ever-changing technical landscape. We partner closely with our clients, embedding our consultants into their businesses in order to provide a bespoke service, allowing us to truly understand our clients' needs.

It is this close collaboration with our clients that has enabled us to grow rapidly in recent years and will drive our ambitious future growth plans. We currently have over 400 consultants working with a variety of key clients from both the public and private sectors such as the Ministry of Justice, FCDOS, UEFA, International Olympic Committee and Mercedes Benz; with plans to increase our client base further in the near future.

We operate as a flat organisation and believe in trusting and supporting our team to operate independently. We pride ourselves on being specialists at what we do, making the most of our consultants' expertise in their fields in order to provide a best-in-class service to our clients. All our consultants have the opportunity to work on a range of different projects, providing a broad range of knowledge on which to develop their careers and progress in the direction they choose.

About You:

You are enthusiastic, motivated, and have a genuine interest in accessibility and technology.You are a proactive and experienced professional with a passion for accessibility and inclusivity. You excel at leading teams, managing testing processes, and working collaboratively with clients and stakeholders to deliver exceptional digital services.

The Role:

We are looking for an experienced mobile tester to work with our government clients on delivering critical projects. You will be instrumental in delivering testing projects, working directly with clients and stakeholders and working closely with wider testing and technical teams.

You will ideally have a strong understanding of test planning and delivery and be able to apply this in a hands-on approach. You should be happy to travel to the Coventry office every Wednesday and Thursday.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist with planning, execution and coordination of all testing activities
• Analysing test requirements, designing and producing reusable test scripts.
• Creating and managing test regression packs.
• Test data creation to plan and manage test scripts.
• Overcoming obstacles, such as working with the team on clarification of requirements or seeing bugs through to resolution to deliver quality testing on time.
• Reviewing test artefacts produced by peers.
• Reviewing test results and modify the test suites as necessary.
• Capturing, reporting & supporting the analysis of software bugs.
• Executing test scripts from plans and accurately reporting where requirements are not being met.
• Defining and implementing key test KPIs to ensure high quality standards are achieved
• Contributing to release, deployment and change planning.

Key Skills & Experience:

• Excellent communication skills both oral and written. Ability to raise and manage issues/defects to stakeholders.
• Proven experience of Functional Testing: running and managing appropriate tests to ensure requirements are met.
• Experience in mobile automation testing utilising Appium/Specflow/.Net
• SQL/DatabricksAn understanding of CI/CD and agile working environments
• Hands-on working experience in a .NET environment
• Previous use of Azure DevOps, JIRA, or similar tool
• Ability to identify, research and implement effective testing techniques and tools.
• Experience in creating and managing Test Data.
• Proven experience of defining and implementing test improvement strategies.
• Flexibility and ability to adapt to changing objectives and able to work well under pressure
• Strong decision making and problem-solving skills.

Desirable Skills

• Proven experience of improving processes, setting strategy, delivering improvements, maintaining a quality service, and driving change.
• Experience with API testing utilising HttpClient or similar
• Experience with BDD, LambdaTest, Playwright, C#
• Experience with performance testing, Jmeter & Accessibility testing

What We Offer:

• Competitive Salary
• Private Healthcare Insurance
• 25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
• Up to 10 days allocated development training per year
• Bonus Scheme
• Statutory & Contributory pension
• Free Gym Membership
• Flexible Working
• Annual Away Days
• Monthly Company Socials

Equality & Diversity:

Solirius Consulting is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that supports, celebrates, encourages, and respects all individuals and in which all processes are based on merit, competence and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexuality, age, disability, ethnicity, marital status or any other protected characteristics.

Should you require further assistance or require any reasonable adjustments be put in place to better support your application process, please do not hesitate to raise this with us.