QA Resource

Methods is a 100M IT Services Consultancy who has partnered with a range of central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK. Established over 30 years ago and UK-based we apply our skills in transformation delivery and collaboration from across the Methods Group to create end-to-end business and technical solutions that are people-centred safe and designed for the future.

Our human touch sets us apart from other consultancies system integrators and software houses - with people technology and data at the heart of who we are we believe in creating value and sustainability through everything we do for our clients staff communities and the planet.

We support our clients in the success of their projects while working collaboratively to share skill sets and solve problems. At Methods we have fun while working hard; we are not afraid of making mistakes and learning from them.

Predominantly focused on the public-sector Methods is now building a significant private sector client portfolio.

Methods was acquired by the Alten Group in early 2022. Alten is a global engineering firm with approximately 57000 employees specializing in engineering and IT services.

Methods is driven by a desire to improve public services for the benefit of all the people who use them leveraging current technologies to deliver user centred solutions and having an internal culture that allows our staff to express themselves and be innovative.

As a QAEngineeryou will be expected to work at one of ourclientsand perform high qualityfunctional and non-functional testingoncomplexsystems. You must be familiar with Agile practices and tools and able to work in fast paced CI/CD environment. You will be proactive and always look for ways to improve the automatedtests to makethemmore efficient.

Youcanwork closely with developersdevopsengineers and business stakeholders(operations incidentmanagementand product management) to understand the positive and negative impact software can have on end usersand provideaccurateupdates on the progress and outcomesof testing.

Responsibilities:

• Performfunctional and non-functional (performance accessibility security operational/user acceptance) testing working within an Agile team.

• Develop andmaintaintest automationsolutionsand scriptspromoting best practices within the development team

• Develop and maintain performance/load/stress testing solutions using standard oropen-sourcetools

• Resolve problems and blockers as they occur and helptounlocktheprogressof testing

• Collaborate communicate & work effectively with geographically distributed cross-functional teams

• Defect Management ensuring that defects are effectively triaged and managed until resolution

• Promote the value of solid testing practices to all delivery stakeholders and influence adoption of best practice

KeyRequirements:

• Experience with devising TDD/BDD or Acceptance Test Driven Development strategies using a range of tools/frameworks ensuring test coverage and execution is in line with the project programme or portfolio Test Strategy and Business Risk Objectives.

• StrongJavacodingexperienceand knowledge of automated test frameworks e.g. SerenityRestAssured

• Strong experience using API testing tools ideally Postman

• Experience with integrating testing as part of the Secure-SDLC and CI/CD tooling in anDevSecOpsenvironment using: GitHub Jenkins GitLab SaaS Artifactory Nexus etc.

• Experience with testing citizen facing services

• Experience with testing highly scalable distributed cloud native (PaaS/FaaS) and microservice orientated architecture applicationsleveragingcontainerisation container orchestration service mesh messaging proxies API persistent and ephemeral storage etc.

• Experience using formal Test Management tools (Jira/Confluence ALM).

• Good awareness of Application Lifecycle Management and IT Service Management using tools such as Splunk Grafana and ServiceNow.

• Must be eligible for SC Clearance

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• Experience of using JavaScript Automation Frameworks such asWebdriverIOPlaywright

• Experience of running stress/load testing using K6 and Grafana or other/similar open-source tools.

• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure Portal

• ISEB Certification in Software Testing

DesirableRequirements:

• Experience with data migration projects

• Experience workinginthe Public Sector

By joining us you can expect:

• Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
• Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
• Strong inspiring and thought-provoking leadership
• A supportive and collaborative environment.

As well as this we offer:

• Development access to LinkedIn Learning a management development programme and training
• Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme
• Social Breakfast Tuesdays Thirsty Thursdays and Pizza on the last Thursday of each month as well as commitment to charitable causes
• Time off 25 days a year
• Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
• Discretionary Company Bonus based on company and individual performance
• Life Assurance of 4 times base salary
• Private Medical Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
• Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)