Backend API QA. Senior Software Engineer
Hanson Regan
Job Title: Back-end API QA
Country: Remote
Contract or Perm: Contract
Rate: Negotiable
Job Description:
- Strong experience (2-3 yrs) of API testing, both manual and automated, developing automated acceptance tests for APIs in Java and Typescript (We are using Typescript predominantly but still have a small need for Java to maintain legacy systems until we have fully moved over to Typescript)
- Experience of Typescript
- Experience writing tests using BDD, Gherkin techniques
- Experience of using GitHub or a similar tool
- Experience of working collaboratively in Agile Scrum teams
- Effort estimation, planning, prioritisation, and time management on an agile team
- Automation code refactoring experience
- Writing test approaches for functional testing and exploratory test charters, and communicating test outcomes
- CI/CD experience, deploying builds (we use AWS CodePipeline and GithubActions, but experience of Jenkins would be useful)
- Experience of AWS services and AWS tools (e.g. S3, EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc)
- Experience using Postman, Bruno, Insomnia or similar API testing tools
- Clear and effective verbal and written communication for reporting, documentation, etc.