AMS PSR

On behalf of UKRI, we are looking for a Salesforce Test Automation Engineer (Inside IR35) for a 4 Month remote contract based with occasional visits to Swindon.

As a Salesforce Test Automation Engineer, you will influence quality at all stages of the project, driving continuous improvement and getting involved with requirements, analysis, design, testing and release of enterprise level software applications. You will work to ensure the successful delivery of the major platform work items from different IT projects through robust integration and test processes.

The ideal candidate for this role will be able to demonstrate experience with Acceptance testing (Including UAT), Exploratory Testing and Automation of functional and non-functional requirements. You will need to have an aptitude to pick up new skills quickly and a desire to provide coaching and mentoring to other testers within the team and other areas of the organisation.

Experience of Salesforce projects and SFDC platform experience is required for this role.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Identify and raise awareness of risks arising from the automation test results.
• Identify new and implement existing test frameworks to improve confidence in testing.
• Work closely with salesforce developers to reach a common understanding of the code base and test coverage at unit level.
• Collaborate with analysts to make sure the required business scenarios are covered in the acceptance test scripts.
• Propose solutions to clients, when needed
• Manage, plan and perform exploratory and automation activities throughout the project
• Ensure that quality issues and defects are appropriately identified, documented, tracked, and resolved in a defect tracking system.
• Own and manage the release process to deliver the product effectively.
• Update and maintain regression suites as the products evolve

Essential Experience: 

• Working Experience of Playwright and other test frameworks – (BDD, cucumber)
• API testing with Rest Assured or Postman
• Be able to plan and prioritise all testing activities in alignment to operational objectives and to agreed deliverables
• Understand a variety of testing methods including the current / latest testing methods and tools
• Experience in testing JavaScript and React-based applications.
• Experience in functional and integration testing of Salesforce applications.
• Knowledge of software best practices like test-driven development (TDD), behavioural driven development (BDD), continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Working experience of Conga templates
• Working experience of FinDock & GoCardless payment gateway.

Desirable –

• Experience of delivering digital projects is a benefit
• Java or JavaScript (knowledge of reading and scripting)
• Apex

Skills:

• Functional testing. You can design and execute a wide range of testing techniques and communicate test results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. You know how to make decisions on the environment for testing and coach others. You can identify defects, alerting the business to them, and you can help prioritise them based on defect severity.
• Non-functional testing. You can design and execute a wide range of non-functional testing techniques and communicate non-functional test results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. You can make decisions on running types of non-functional testing. You know how to coach and mentor others. You can identify defects, alerting the business to them, and help prioritise them based on defect severity.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, UKRI guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".