QA Test Automation Engineer
12 month contract - day rate
Hybrid - Dublin
The ideal candidate will have 4+ years’ experience working in a test automation role. They will be confident to hit the ground running and take ownership of automation projects assigned to them.
Why this role is important to us
The purpose of this role is to contribute to the core trading and investment applications, the end users of which include internal staff as well as external third-party clients. Tasks will include automated test design, creation and maintenance, working closely with QA test analysts and project development teams.
What you will be responsible for
· Participate in all project related meetings to get better understanding of core applications and requirements from Business Team.
· Create and / or maintain automated test suites for a wide variety of new and existing investment systems for ongoing application releases: functional, API and regression testing.
· Ensure accurate reporting of all test results, communicate to development, business analysts, project managers and business sponsors.
· Input and enhancement to QA test automation strategy.
· Liaise with IT operations and development teams in accordance with release procedure, as required.
Essential Experience
· 4+ years proven background as a test automation engineer.
· Expertise with test automation tools and scripting languages.
· Java
· At least one of: Selenium, PlayWright, Cypress or another similar tool for web UI automation
· CI/CD tools: Jenkins, Git, etc.
· BDD: Development with Cucumber / Gherkin or similar.
Desirable Experience
· Automated API test development
· AI assisted development tools: Codex, Claude, etc.
· Desirable but not essential: SmartBear TestComplete
· Agile methodology and tools
What we value for the role
- Ability to learn on the job to take ownership of all aspects of automated testing.
- Attention to quality and detail.
- A history of working to tight project schedules and delivering successfully.
- Motivated, enthusiastic individual with ability to work on own initiative.
- Team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to grasp and work with financial and newly developed in-house applications as well as overall understanding of system development lifecycles.
- Financial/Asset Management experience is an advantage.
- Comfortable working alongside both business users and IT technical staff.
- Confident in dealing with clients – both internal and external – professional attitude at all times.
Education & Preferred Qualifications
Expected third level qualification in a technical or business-related discipline.
For more information call Michael on 016146058 or e: [email protected]
