Automation Test Specialist
CBS Butler Limited
Lawley and Overdale, United Kingdom
2 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Temporary contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Compensation
£ 123KJob location
Lawley and Overdale, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Agile Methodologies
Business Analytics Applications
Automation of Tests
Code Coverage
DevOps
JUnit
Openshift
Scrum
SAS (Software)
Selenium
Systems Integration
Visual Analytics
Test Scripts
GIT
Pytest
Gitlab-ci
Integration Tests
Kubernetes
Software Version Control
Data Pipelines
Sas Visual Analytics
Jenkins
Job description
We are seeking a proactive Test Automation Specialist to join an IT consultancy and digital transformation organisation working on a long-standing UK government programme. You'll focus on designing, developing and maintaining automated test frameworks and pipelines to support analytics solutions on the SAS Viya 4 platform., * Working as part of an Agile team participate in ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning, retrospectives, demos and reporting.
- Utilise strong Stakeholder Management and communication skills to collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers, and Business Analysts to ensure test coverage aligns with business requirements and technical specifications
- Ensure that appropriate automation tooling is implemented and utilised to meet business and technical needs.
- Design and implement automation test strategies and plans for SAS Viya 4 applications, for UI based Visual Analytics (VA) and Intelligent Decisioning (ID), as well as for integration testing of data pipelines.
- Develop and maintain test scripts using appropriate automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, PyTest, JUnit) and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines.
Requirements
- Strong experience in test automation for data-driven or analytics platforms.
- Hands-on experience with automation frameworks such as Selenium, PyTest, JUnit (or equivalent).
- Experience testing UI-based applications (ideally SAS Visual Analytics or similar BI tools).
- Proven experience with integration testing of data pipelines and services.
- Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests using tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams, contributing to ceremonies and sprint delivery.
Technical Environment (Desirable):
- Experience with SAS Viya 4 (or SAS Viya 3.x) platforms.
- Knowledge of SAS Visual Analytics (VA) and Intelligent Decisioning (ID).
- Understanding of containerised platforms such as OpenShift or Kubernetes.
- Experience with Git-based version control and branching strategies.
