Apprentice Automation Software Developer
- Employer
- Rakuten Marketing Europe Ltd
- Location
- Frederick House, 42 Frederick Place, Brighton, BN1 4EA
- Salary
- £18,000.00 - £24,000.00 annually
- Closing date
- 16 Jul 2019
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- Specialism
- IT
- Sector
- Unspecified
- Role Type
- Apprenticeship, Higher
- Start Date
- July
- Duration
- Permanent
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Responsibilities
QA Activities.
Requirements and prospects
Desired skills
The candidate would be expected to demonstrate skills/knowledge in a majority of the following areas
Personal qualities
As above
Desired qualifications
Future prospects
There is a full time job after this apprenticeship for the right candidate.
- Develop and execute test plans and test cases with a strong emphasis on using code to solve technical challenges and shorten the test cycle through automation.
- Estimate test efforts, analyse and communicate test results and participate in day to day
QA Activities.
- Add to our company's performance and scalability testing efforts and improve the test frameworks, tools and technologies used by the organization to maintain a high quality bar.
- Work with Development, Test and Product Management to design and implement test and validation strategies.
- Execute and manage test cases and results; report on test and defect metrics.
- Create, execute and troubleshoot automated test scenarios across our systems.
- Contribute to robust, scalable, and high-quality test automation solutions for functional, regression and performance testing
- Contribute to the building of a continuous Integration (CI) environment and ongoing process improvement activities.
- Identify required improvements in the test and development processes; make contributions to our automation tools that address specific needs.
- Maintain a high-quality bar in a complex and constantly evolving workspace.
Requirements and prospects
Desired skills
The candidate would be expected to demonstrate skills/knowledge in a majority of the following areas
- Experience with software testing and automated test techniques with a strong focus on quality throughout the entire software development cycle.
- Proven ability to translate functional requirements and use cases into working test plans and test cases.
- Strong customer focus, excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
- Passion for improving code quality through interaction with development team.
- Demonstrated skill in using coding standards and being an active participant in code reviews.
- Experience with excel or data analysis.
- Basic development skills in Python or Java and JavaScript.
- Experience with Selenium, Postman and/or Cypress.
- Proficient working with relational databases such as Hbase, Postgres SQL.
- Experience building highly automated environments using virtual and cloud resources is strongly desired.
- Experience with Jira.
- Experience working in an agile environment preferred.
- Experience with Linux or Windows.
- Some knowledge of continuous integration practices, preferably using CircleCI
Personal qualities
As above
Desired qualifications
- Relevant computer science.
- Software engineering academic achievement or experience.
Future prospects
There is a full time job after this apprenticeship for the right candidate.
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