Senior API Test Engineer

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Senior API Test Engineer to join our Application Development team. Application Development are responsible for the development of our award-winning websites, Jet2.com and Jet2holidays as well as our internal business apps. We deliver scalable, robust and high-performance solutions to support the continued growth of the business.

This is a home-working role, allowing you the ability and scope to work flexibly without the need for travel.

As our Senior API Test Engineer, you’ll have access to a wide range of benefits including:

• Access to a generous discretionary profit share scheme
• 26 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays)
• Annual pay reviews

What you’ll be doing:

As a Senior API Test Engineer, you will assist and coordinate with Business, Test Specialists, Lead Test Engineers and Architects to understand the Test Requirements and Test Architecture to ensure the System is designed with quality in mind and are testable. You'll also: 

• Take Responsibility for writing/implementing/maintaining high quality and robust API, designing/developing frameworks from scratch.
• Undertake requirement analysis and validation, transforming the business requirements into different layers of testing with an appropriate justification (Unit, Acceptance, E2E Testing)
• Champion BDD process (example mapping, writing scenarios, reviews) to essentially act as a bridge between dev, test, and business)
• Work closely with Test Specialists and Lead Test Engineer to support in setting out the overall Test Strategy, Test Approach/Standards, run POCs.
• Engage with the Test Community, sharing ideas, thoughts and solutions to help evolve as a QA team.
• Coach and mentor the junior Testers, Test Engineers and help the management/leadership team in nurturing internal talent.
• Explore different tools, processes, ways or working as per the industry standards and help to implement such ideas.

What you’ll have:
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Our Senior API Test Engineer will have previous experience of automating RESTful APIs and have strong experience in a programming language (ideally in .NET). Previous experience in coaching, mentoring and developing Junior Test Engineers/Testers would be beneficial. You’ll also have:

• Experience in creating/maintaining automation tests and can debug through tests.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong experience with BDD framework tooling (SpecFlow/Reqnroll, Cucumber)
• Knowledge of Mocking Mechanism with exposure of Wiremock, Interceptor Pattern or any equivalent tool.
• Experience in building/designing test frameworks.
• Good experience in overall defect management, root cause analysis, triage and reporting.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner.
• Experience with Git based source control tools and working in an agile environment.
• Ideally you’ll have a good working knowledge of containerisation, with exposure to Docker or any equivalent tool.
• Knowledge of In Memory Hosting of a System Under Test is preferable.

Join us as we redefine travel experiences and create memories for millions of passengers. At Jet2.com and Jet2holidays, your potential has no limits. Apply today and let your career take flight!

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