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• Junior Automation Engineer

• Permanent
• Full time
• £35,000 - £38,000
• Hybrid (M1 4BT, Manchester, United Kingdom)
• QA

As a Junior Automation Engineer at AccessPay, you will play a vital role working within a cross functional team, participating in the quality assurance of our software with a primary focus being on the testability and performance of our service offering. You'll actively participate in the entire software development lifecycle, including manual testing, setting up automation suites, creating test plans, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The emphasis is on creating robust, scalable, and maintainable systems to address the unique challenges of this field. As a member of a small, agile team, you'll directly impact project success and contribute to the growth of our software engineering capabilities.

AccessPay leads the way in payments operations excellence for finance and treasury teams. Our cloud-based platform seamlessly connects corporates to their banks, and in turn modernises banking operations processes, minimises the risk of fraud and error, enhances payments efficiency and optimises cash visibility.

Thousands of organisations partnering with AccessPay integrate their ERPs to over 11,000 banks, domestically and internationally, automate their bank statement retrieval, and de-risk their payments operations through embedded security enhancements like Confirmation of Payee and Sanctions Screening.

Headquartered in Manchester, UK, and established in 2012, AccessPay is a pioneering force in the banking industry, providing an unparalleled embedded banking experience and leading-edge solutions for its clients.

*Please note salary is subject to experience*

All employees live by the following Access Pay values

Always Learning: Our team are a naturally inquisitive bunch, always striving to become experts in our field. We are committed to sharing knowledge and skills with our colleagues and customers. AccessPay provides an environment that fosters personal development and professional growth for all of our people.

Supportive: Helpfulness sits at the heart of our culture – when we win, we win as a team. We agree on shared goals, collaborate constantly, and drive relentlessly in pursuit of those goals. We also understand the importance of fun, both working hard and celebrating our successes.

Driven to Achieve: We are passionate and energetic – whatever the mission. When we encounter challenges we show courage, resilience, and initiative to overcome them.

Committed to Excellence: Through our technical prowess, creativity, personal integrity and accountability, we deliver exceptional outcomes and exceed expectations time and time again.

Key Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for the evaluation, implementation, maintenance, and on-going improvements of our test automation solutions, ensuring standards are followed and the solutions are tailored to deliver quality time and time again
• Help define test plans / executions / cases
• Verifying acceptance criteria using automated and manual strategies
• Working with the engineering and product teams to help deliver high quality features using test suites such as Cypress / UseBruno
• You will help devise and assist with automation training plans and material to ensure the wider team start to build test automation knowledge and UI test compatibility
• Work with software engineers in sprints to conduct a suite of manual and automated tests to ensure quality, maximise defect detection prior to deployment and verify feature requirements are met
• You are consistently coming up with new ideas and ways of working within automation
• You will help with promoting and increasing visibility of the QA function and its technical capabilities with the wider team
• Working knowledge of JavaScript / Cypress implementation

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Experience automation testing of APIs using UseBruno
• Experience using Cypress for UI automation testing
• Understanding of common data formats (JSON, XML and YAML)
• A self-starter, have the ability and motivation to learn about new tools and technologies
• Sound understanding of various test methodologies and what good test automation looks like (functional and non-functional) in supporting the end-to-end testing process

Desirable Skills

• Passionate about technology and eager to learn C# test automation / development
• Awareness of C# unit testing frameworks
• Knowledge of database technologies (SQL or PostGres)
• Knowledge of event driven architecture (RabbitMQ or similar)
• Understanding of statement and payment files within fintech
• WCAG testing knowledge
• Hold an ISTQB or equivalent qualification

Job benefits:

• You will be entitled to 25 days’ holiday + 8 bank holidays increasing with length of service.
• Birthday off work
• 2 Volunteer days a year.
• The option to purchase additional days holiday.
• We operate a salary exchange pension scheme which you will be auto-enrolled into from day one of employment.
• Free Gym Membership with Pure Gym or £240 yearly Wellbeing Allowance
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• Share option scheme after probation
• Cycle to work scheme after probation
• Health cash plan
• Free breakfast & lunch food when in the Manchester office
• Discounted Parking in Manchester
• Access to training – both internal and external
• We plant a tree for every new starter that joins us!
• We are a dog-friendly office
• Free massages in office every quarter