Lead Automated & Performance Test Consultant

Company Description

Hitachi Solutions Europe is a global Digital, Data and Technology consultancy, Microsoft Gold partner and Cloud Services partner, specialising in end-to-end transformation.

As a global consultancy firm working across the private and public sectors, we specialise in Dynamics 365 Business Applications, Power Platform, including Azure, Application Modernisation and Data & Analytics.

Our highly skilled team help drive improvements, creating efficiency and growth within organisations. We are committed to Microsoft technologies, with a mission to revolutionise modern businesses. To achieve this we employ the best, most dedicated talent to deliver outstanding technology solutions to both our local and global clients.

Be part of our Hitachi family

We place value on collaboration, open communication, and transparency. We emphasise the importance of team spirit, cohesion, and appreciation - And through our talented people, innovative culture, and technical and business expertise, we deliver game changing outcomes every day. Our learning culture and flat hierarchy are our recipes for success. But don't take our word for it - Have a look at what our employees are saying: Hitachi Solutions: Recruiting the best talent and offering outstanding career opportunities (hitachi-solutions.co.uk)

What to expect, your benefits

Hitachi Solutions offers competitive compensation packages (incl. bonuses), pension and benefits plans. Work/Life balance is an essential part of our culture, and all our employees are home workers, although you will be expected to come into our or customer's offices regularly. We operate a comprehensive career development programme that includes mentoring and training plans to ensure that you will continue to grow and develop your career at Hitachi.

Job Description

We are growing our consulting team and looking for a Lead Automated & Performance Test Consultant to join us on our exciting journey and be part of the Hitachi Solutions family.

Key Accountabilities

• Accountable for overall test automation script delivery
• Accountable for building performance/load test framework
• Adhering to the published methodology and project controls
• Reporting to the Test Lead or Senior Test Manager
• Ensuring the work submitted by themselves and junior members of the team meets the required Quality standards of the project

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for preparing automation scripts and automated test scripts execution successfully
• Responsible for preparing Load and performance test framework and scripts
• Ensuring that the testing process is followed, and that all deliverables are adhered to
• Providing a junior Test Lead role on smaller projects
• Support best practice in CI and QA
• Responsible for ensuring that all identified test risks, issues and actions are captured
• Responsible for providing support for Incident Management

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Selenium Grid & WebDriver C#, Microsoft Easy Repro, Playright
• Significant experience in one or all of the following performance testing tools : Loadrunner, Karate, Gatling
• Experience in DotNet C#, ASP .Net MVC, Entity Framework Core
• Experience in Appium, Win Driver Protocol and mobile app testing
• Experience in HTML & CSS
• Javascript experience
• Good exposure to SOAP, REST based APIs
• Good exposure to SQL
• Good exposure to DevOps / Test Plan APIs
• Good exposure to .Net entity framework
• A good understanding of the software test and development process and the business approach
• The ability to work in a team and as an individual, working under pressure and to tight deadlines

Diversity and Inclusion at Hitachi Solutions

Diversity is the wellspring of our innovation and our growth engine, and we believe that creativity is fuelled by diversity. To be truly user centric, we need to ensure that the teams developing products and services are representative of the communities they serve. Our collective success is achieved by fostering and respecting our employees' and customer's individualities coming together as One Team. Hitachi strives to create an environment not only where genders, races, cultures, sexual orientations, and identities can work together, but where the beliefs and views of those participating feel equally represented.

If you are interested and want to know more about this opportunity, apply directly and have a chat with us.

Additional Information

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