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• Junior Automation Engineer

• Permanent
• Full time
• £30,000 - £35,000
• Hybrid (M1 4BT, Manchester, United Kingdom)
• QA

Summary
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.

Our company specializes in revolutionizing financial operations for businesses of all scales. With a primary focus on facilitating millions of payments, we offer a cutting-edge solution that replaces manual banking processes with highly efficient automated workflows. Our innovative approach not only reduces the risk of fraud and errors but also provides enhanced visibility into financial data. By streamlining finance operations, we empower companies to navigate the complexities of payment processing with ease, ensuring a secure, efficient, and transparent financial ecosystem.

All employees live by the following Access Pay values:

Always Learning
They are naturally inquisitive, always striving to become an expert in our field.
Supportive
Helpfulness sits at the heart of your culture, when they win, we win as a team.
Driven to Achieve
They are passionate and energetic - whatever the mission. When they encounter challenges they show courage, resilience, and initiative to overcome them
Committed to Excellence
Through their technical prowess, creativity, personal integrity and accountability, they 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
• Defining detailed test plans / executions / cases that adhere to our software development lifecycle
• Verifying acceptance criteria using UI and API test suites
• 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

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Understanding of automation testing of APIs
• Understanding of automation testing UIs
• Experience using debugging tools like Chrome DevTools
• Experience using common data formats (JSON, XML and YAML)
• Experience with either C# or JavaScript (or similar)
• Experience with Git
• Understanding of agile within development
• Understanding of API design and API integration
• 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

• Any experience in software development (Software Engineer or Frontend Software Engineer)
• Knowledge of database technologies (SQL or PostGres)
• Demonstrate a level of interest and understanding in C# .NET development
• Awareness of C# unit testing frameworks
• Good knowledge of frontend testing frameworks (such as React Testing Library)
• Understanding of statement and payment files within fintech

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 joiner that joins us!
• We are a Dog-Friendly office
• and many more!

Check out our Company page on the Great Place to Work website: Working at AccessPay | Great Place To Work® UK