- Location
- London, ENG, GB
- Type
- Contract
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Senior
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- iCIMS
Description
Overview
Expleo is seeking an experienced Senior Test Automation Engineer to join our Digital Assurance practice, supporting a key client within the energy trading sector. This role will be responsible for defining and implementing robust test automation solutions, ensuring the quality, reliability and performance of business-critical applications and data platforms.
The successful candidate will combine strong automation engineering capabilities with excellent analytical skills to deliver high-quality testing solutions across complex systems, data integrations and event-driven architectures.
Responsibilities
- Define test strategies, coverage models and acceptance criteria from functional and non-functional requirements.
- Design, develop and maintain automated test frameworks and regression test suites.
- Develop test automation solutions using C# and BDD methodologies.
- Create and maintain robust Gherkin scenarios and step definitions.
- Determine the optimal balance between manual and automated testing, typically operating within a 70:30 automation-to-manual testing approach.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and development workflows.
- Perform testing of large datasets, data flows and data mappings.
- Execute test cases, analyse results and clearly communicate defects, issues and risks.
- Utilise approved AI-assisted tools to support test design, exploratory testing, automation development, analysis and reporting.
- Critically review and validate AI-generated outputs to ensure adherence to quality, security and development standards.
- Collaborate closely with developers, analysts and business stakeholders within Agile delivery teams.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives while adhering to the client's development lifecycle and quality standards.
Essential skills
Programming & Platforms
- C#
- .NET
- ASP.NET Core
- SQL
- JSON
- XML
Testing & Automation
- Reqnroll / SpecFlow
- Microsoft Playwright
- WireMock
- Postman
- Newman
- Bruno CLI
Development & Delivery
- Visual Studio
- Git
- Azure DevOps Repositories
- Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines
Event Streaming & Messaging
- Apache Kafka (Aiven)
- Schema Registry
- Avro
- JSON Messaging
- RabbitMQ
Data & Observability
- Microsoft SQL Server
- OpenTelemetry
- ClickStack / HyperDX
- ClickHouse
- ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
Desired skills
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Strong stakeholder communication and collaboration skills.
- Familiarity with Azure DevOps, TFS, Jira or similar Application Lifecycle Management tools.
- Exposure to observability and monitoring platforms.
- Knowledge of event-driven and microservices architectures.
Experience
- Proven experience in test automation engineering within Agile environments.
- Strong experience in C# test automation development.
- Experience creating and maintaining BDD frameworks and behaviour-driven test suites.
- Demonstrable experience building automated regression test packs and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong SQL skills with experience validating complex data structures and integrations.
- Experience testing APIs, event-driven systems and distributed architectures.
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering and testing tools.
- Experience within energy, utilities or trading environments.
- Experience working within regulated enterprise environments.
Benefits
- Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
- We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
- Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
- Competitive company benefits
- Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo
- As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
- Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
- Communicating and promoting vacancies
- Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
- Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
- Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people
“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.
We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive