Financial Services Automation Tester Inside IR35

La International; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

An Automation Tester with Financial Services experience is required for an initial 8 month contract. This is a hybrid role with 3 days per week on site in Sheffield and is inside IR35 so will require working via an FCSA accredited umbrella company.

Essential Skills and Experience:

1. Very strong coding skills in Puppet, Ansible and Python, as well as exposure to Cucumber, Gherkin, Git/GitHub and other pipelines used for testing purposes.
2. Have a good understanding of traditional infrastructure.
3. This role will be to automate a new customer environment, using well-defined existing frameworks.
4. You will need to be a quick learner to understand the existing environment.
5. Architect a build a provisioning pipeline to support the new initiative.
6. Creation of management dashboards and integration to existing portal tools will be necessary.
7. Adhere to change management processes - Change management automation.
8. Sufficiently comment your code during creation to allow for supportability in the future.
9. Understand performance implications for your code, and create new code to be as performant as possible.
10. Must be able to work as part of a team, and be able to receive and implement enhancements for code you have written from others.
11. Ability to work within the Agile frame using Jira.
12. Must have experience working in a finance background with adherence to strong change management practices.

Beneficial Additional Skills:

1. Exposure to Ruby, Vagrant, Virtual Box, Visual Studio, SPLUNK, Powershell and deconstructing external API's to present an internal customer API will be useful.
2. Understand 'bigger pictures' and code towards a longer-term architecture rather than just for a short-term fix.
3. Experience in working in a large enterprise environment with thousands of end-points.
4. Create and maintain documentation of the patching architecture.
5. Update confluence and Jira tickets to reflect any changes or updates you make.
6. Work within a release schedule, adhering to strict change management rules.
7. Must have the 'soft skills' to be able to work in a larger team environment and contribute in team meetings/huddles.