Automation Tester

Job Description

Location(s):

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Location: Leeds (or London) – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Grade: GG10

Referral Bonus: £5000

Job Summary

We are recruiting for Automation Testers to join our team in Leeds. The role of Automation Tester is to create technical solutions to improve test process efficiency and validate the quality of the system. It's important that our Automation Testers are able to apply prior technical experience and techniques to develop test frameworks/products, automated tests and enable continuous delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain automated scripts for black and white box tests
• Establish a technical understanding of the system under test
• Manage the execution and reporting of automated test suites (sometimes including performance tests)
• Design and implement technical solutions to improve test process/efficiency
• Work closely with development teams to reproduce and resolve defects
• Collaborate with and present improvement and ideas to other members of the test team
• Define standards and continually develop frameworks for automated testing to be used company wide

Requirements

• Strong desire to understand and resolve difficult technical issues
• Experience writing good quality object-oriented code (e.g. using Java)
• Knowledge of build automation systems (e.g. Ant, Maven), version control (e.g. Git, SVN) and continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins)
• Ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively within a software development team
• Strong quality drive – experience working in test is not essential

Advantageous knowledge/skills/experience

• Experience using testing frameworks (e.g. TestNG, xUnit) to script tests
• Experience using defect and test management tools (e.g. JIRA) to track defects and manage tests
• Experience using web based automation tools (e.g. Selenium)
• General technical automation tools (e.g. Puppet, Chef, Vagrant)

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

Division overview: Government

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Government contracts are an area we have many decades of experience in. Government and key infrastructure networks are critical targets to defend as the effects of these networks being breached can be devastating.

As a member of the Government business unit, you will defend the connected world and ensure the protection of nations. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.