QA Engineering Specialist

Job Description

Why this job matters

Working in this role you will play a critical part in the operation of the BT Enterprise SRE & QA function. In Business Quality Assurance team, we advocate for Quality across all the phases. As a Automation Engineer Specialist in the Business Digital unit, the responsibility includes - implementing the data ingestion framework between the New IT Components to execute a seamless Sales and Fulfilment Journey to accelerate the E2E test Automation for maximum Functionality and Feature Coverage in SIT/BETA environments to achieve the rapid product launch.

The Automation Engineer Specialist should be
• Having extensive E2E knowledge on the Strategic/New IT systems for key products w.r.t to Sales and Fulfilment

• Having strong knowledge on the Data Automation/Ingestion to the New IT Systems

• Able to Collaborate with BT Components across BT Unit/LOBs and understand the data model and automate the data ingestion

• Having good knowledge on the SAAS and COTS products like Sales Force, Velocity CPQ/COM, Ciena Blue Planet, Pega and Service Now., documents the risk and mitigation measures, track & monitor the progression of deliverables, drives automation across the phases of QA, tracks the QA efforts within the defined test points.

• Working as part of a team of highly skilled specialists, you will play a vital role in creating capabilities that enable the QA function to deliver its commitments across business Unit within the stipulated timeline. Will work closely with the Requirement leads/Business stakeholders, Solution Design, Engineering, Delivery & In-life teams to ensure we deliver the requirements into production with Quality as per agreed milestone.

• Having strong knowledge and experience with Data Seeding/Data Automation/Data Ingestion into different systems to enable QA to perform testing seamlessly.

What you’ll be doing

• Contributes to the design and development of test data automation solutions that validate the functionality of applications for E2E Test cases for Strategic IT Products within Business Digital
• Leads the full lifecycle integration testing to support complex projects to define and drive the deliverables required
• Delivers complex analysis to understand the impacts and causes of defects and issues, driving the team of QA analysts to investigate, identify and define advanced solutions
• Executes a range of testing activities inclusive of test case creation, diagnostics and test data strategy for portfolios in strategic IT, and is accountable for first/second level diagnostics enabling test
delivery to time, cost, quality across multiple workstreams.
• Understand the testing effort by analysing the requirements of project.
• Provide inputs on high-level test scenarios, challenges, risks, resources, test estimates, etc., during test planning meetings
• Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan.
• Collaborate and Implement Test Data Automation in to required systems for E2E Test.
• Write and execute test cases to find system bugs like UI and usability issues, etc.
• Arrange the Hardware (physical/device/lab setup requirements) and software requirement for the Test Setup.
• Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing as per standards defined by the organization.
• Check / Review the Test Cases documents.
• Keep track of the new requirements / change in requirements of the Project.
• Escalate the issues about project requirements and blockers (Software, Hardware, Resources) to Project Manager / Sr. Test Manager.
• Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report (Daily, weekly etc.) to the Stakeholders
• Track and prepare the report of testing activities like test testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines etc.
• Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones.
• Prepares/updates the metrics dashboard at the end of a phase or at the completion of project.
• Knowledge on test tools and automation, focus on Automation at every possible stage of SDLC phase.
• Develop Automation scripts and focus on Automation first approach for all the new functional requirements
• Contribute for continuous improvement of their own team through retrospective findings

The skills you’ll need

MANDATORY
• Familiarity with entire SDLC/STLC
• Extensive working experience with data automation/ingestion/seeding
• Working on an agile project as part of an agile team.
• Experience in writing automation scripts.
• Experience on implementing Test Script Generation for UI/API.
• Proven experience of driving Test automation projects
• Extensive Professional Test experience
• Knowledge on testing phases and concepts
• Telecom domain knowledge
• Hands on experience on Automation
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Testing Concepts: Understands non-functional testing including: performance, resilience, usability, security penetration. Experienced in implementing a number of these. Aware of the tools that available to support these kinds of testing. Understands end-to-end and multi-system testing issues and techniques

• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns
• Skill for writing reusable Java libraries
• Knowledge of concurrency patterns in Java
• Familiarity with concepts of MVC, JDBC, and RESTful
• Familiarity with Java GUI frameworks {{such as Swing, SWT, and AWT depending on project requirements}}
• Knack for writing clean, readable Java code
• Experience with both external and embedded databases
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Basic understanding of JVM, its limitations, weaknesses, and workarounds
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests

PREFERRED
• Experience working on any latest test automation tool.
• Agile exposure
• Non-functional test experience
• Knowledge CI-CD and Continuous testing
• ISTQB Certification - Foundation level

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

About us

BT Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK’s most recognised and cherished brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.

Over the next two years, we will complete the UK’s largest and most successful digital infrastructure project – connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other.

While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come. This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK’s best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country’s biggest infrastructure companies.

Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented. BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.