Role Overview & Mandate
Executive Summary
We are looking for a QA Engineer to join the Infrastructure team in Arm's Partner Enablement group on a 12-month fixed-term contract. Our...
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About the role
Are you excited to be part of an engineering team with a varied estate of latest technology and legacy applications, and want to utilise your experience, creativity, and pragmatism to bring the required level of quality and automation to the work we do on all of our applications? As the Test Automation Analyst at Arm, you are responsible for the creation and execution of all forms of software testing throughout the agile development lifecycle of our web application suite. This is a good opportunity for an experienced Test Analyst with knowledge of automation who can follow the best testing practices and implement the right testing processes within the team.
What the role look like
We work closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, business owners and Software Engineers to fully understand the business. We hold regular scrum ceremonies, such as sprint planning, which everyone actively participates in to ensure progress is transparent.
You will:
- Automate functional tests using web test automation tools.
- Assess and continuously report application quality to the team, building and implementing automated tests.
- Scope all planned testing work through Agile estimating and sprint planning.
- Create BDD test scenarios and follow the test strategy using current testing methodologies, ensuring that there is traceability between the testing implementation and the requirements / acceptance criteria.
- Ensure that all application and technology testing is carried out according to testing standards defined in the strategy.
- Create and complete manual, automation, or non-functional test cases and ensure that test status, risks, and issues are reported in a timely manner using the agreed reporting standard.
- Create, validate, and report defects in accordance with the defect life cycle.
What will you bring to Arm
As a diligent, enthusiastic, and confident individual who is committed to continual assessment and improvement requirements, you will feed them into effective test cases. With excellent communication skills, the ability to empathise with the team’s need to balance pace over excellence, you will be good at achieving positive outcomes.
- Experience in automating web application tests using Selenium WebDriver and C#/Java Frameworks.
- Experience in building Selenium automated tests using Page Object Model and BDD.
- Knowledge in Object Oriented Programming languages, preferably C# or Java.
- Experienced in Integration, System, and User Acceptance Testing.
- In-depth knowledge of testing types, techniques. and practices.
Desirable skills:
- Build tools: Jenkins / Azure DevOps / Gitlab
- Non-functional testing: Performance (Blazemeter), Accessibility testing
Arm’s hybrid approach to working is centred around flexibility, where we split our time between the office and other locations to get our work done. We empower groups/teams to determine their hybrid working pattern, with an expected minimum attendance in the office of 20% per month, depending on the work, level of experience and team’s needs. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution.
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Equal Opportunities at Arm
Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of any characteristic.
Hybrid Working at Arm
Arm’s hybrid approach to working is centred around flexibility, where we split our time between the office and other locations to get our work done. We empower groups/teams to determine their hybrid working pattern, with an expected minimum attendance in the office of 20% per month, depending on the work, level of experience and team’s needs. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution.
