Skillset - Automation Tester | Agile | Selenium or QTP





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Yet another interesting test automation profile :


Are you a technical tester? Do you want to work with the best? Are you looking for a challenging and energising role where you can learn? If the answer is yes to all 3 questions read on!


An Automation Tester / Test Automation Specialist is required by a leading and financial systems company in Central London. As a highly successful business they are completely unrivalled in their bespoke financial systems solutions that they provide for the world's most exclusive Investment Banks, Brokerages and Trading companies. My client pride themselves on being one of the most technically astute testing teams in the UK and firmly encourage knowledge sharing amongst it's testing team enabling their consultants to be best they possibly can be. If you are a Technical Automation Tester looking to gain experience at the top end of the financial services market and continue developing your skill set with a great team and exciting business then this is the perfect opportunity!

To begin the successful Automation Tester / Test Automation Specialist with experience of testing tools such as QTP, Selenium, WebDriver, JUnit, JMeter, NUnit or Rational Robot. To utilise these automation tools the successful applicant will have an in-depth knowledge of at least one programming language to build complex test automation frameworks. Desired languages consist of Java, C#, Ruby, Perl or Python and SQL. The successful Automation Tester / Test Automation Specialist will have recently worked in CI (Continuous Integration) projects and have built unit tests.

Other broader skills needed to be a successful applicant includes experience in Agile, Scrum, TDD or BDD development lifecycles as my client works to short sprints and have a great name as an Agile business. Knowledge of Unix, Bash, ksh, Windows, Oracle and SQL is also highly advantageous.

This is a superb opportunity for a skilled Automation Tester to gain experience with a highly respected team and work on fantastic financial services projects.

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