Test Automation Engineer (UiPath POC)
City of London
Hybrid (3/2 split)
Contract
£610 - £685 per day (via Umbrella)
cer Financial are working alongside an international bank who are based in the City of London. They are seeking a Test Automation Engineer to work with them on a contract.
The responsibilities of a Test Automation Engineer will include:
- Design and implement a POC framework for test automation using UiPath.
- Develop and maintain automated test scripts for financial software applications using industry-standard automation tools and frameworks.
- Execute automated test suites to validate software functionality, performance, reliability, and security.
- Participate in the review and refinement of software requirements, specifications, and design documents to ensure testability and adherence to quality standards.
- Contribute to the establishment and maintenance of Test best practices, standards, and guidelines tailored to the finance industry.
- Evaluate UiPath’s capabilities in test automation, including integration with CI/CD tools.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand project requirements, define test scenarios, and design test cases that ensure comprehensive test coverage.
- Consulting with BA team, reviewing test requirements and identify use-cases for validation.
- Act as a key facilitator within the team, acting as a bridge between the client stakeholder, BA, PM, and the software development team.
- Collaborate with QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders to gather requirements and feedback.
- Present findings and recommendations based on POC outcomes.
- Provide technical guidance and support to other team members.
- Manage and fulfil expectations of key stakeholders, Project Lead, Head of Innovation, Head of QA Automation, and project team.
The successful Test Automation Engineer will have:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Finance, or relevant working experience.
- A solid experience in IT industry with hand-on-experience on delivering automation for IT projects.
- UiPath certifications (e.g., UiPath Certified Advanced RPA Developer or Software Testing Engineer Professional) is preferred.
- Proven experience in UiPath development, including test automation.
- Strong understanding of RPA concepts, test automation strategies, and QA methodologies.
- Proficiency in Java, VB.NET or C#, and experience with UiPath Studio, Orchestrator, and Test Suite.
- Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git) and CI/CD tools (e.g., Bitbucket, Azure DevOps).
- Proven track record of integration and end to end testing skills.
- Experience of testing integrated financial based Front office, Middle office, and Back-office Applications is preferred.
- Experience of capital markets and investment banking is preferred.
- Experience with automated testing tools beyond UiPath (e.g., Selenium, Cucumber, Postman) is preferred.
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.