Software Developer in Test

ASA Recruitment's client, a Public Sector organisation in Glasgow (hybrid working), are currently looking to recruit a Software Developer in Test, for an initial 6 month contract (with potential extensions) on a rate of up to £500/day outside of IR35 (based on experience).

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a small team of Software Developer in Test specialists ensuring test plans are understood, integrated, delivered and automated where possible
• Coordinate and manage test schedules
• Build and maintain testing artefacts, looking ahead for future opportunities or blockers, and ensuring decisions by teams align with the strategy
• Identify operational improvements and work to ensure a stable service that can be enhanced
• Anticipate and mitigate against project challenges or risks
• Work with and support third parties in providing testing services
• Create test frameworks and automation tests for in house applications and help in assuring releases for the team.

Experience

• Best Practice test approaches
• Test Automation in CI/CD pipelines (specifically, GitHub Actions)
• Playwright and/or Selenium/WebDriver test automation (ideally some exposure to Playwright is desired)
• Java and JavaScript
• BDD test tooling (Gherkin/Cucumber)
• Proficient around Linux based environments
• AWS environment experience
• Mariadb/Oracle/Mysql/AWS Aurora experience (2 or more)
• 2+ years (within the past 5 years) of MySQL scripting
• Ability to translate technical concepts between infrastructure, delivery management and service management so they are understood by all
• Able to speak on behalf of technical and service management teams and facilitate the relationships with indirect stakeholders

ASA Recruitment is one of Scotland's largest independent multi-sector recruitment agencies. We specialise in providing effective tailored solutions for permanent, contract and temporary employment requirements for our Clients and Candidates. We are members of the REC and are ISO certified.

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