Sr Analyst Automation Test Engineer

Job Description:

Automation Test Engineer

Location: Cheltenham/Gloucester will be on site 5 days per week.

At DXC Technology, delivering excellence for our customers and colleagues is more than just a motto, it’s something we strive towards constantly through our work. Every day we deliver mission critical services in a secure environment whilst promoting our people first agenda, a real sense of community and a healthy work-life balance. Our consistently positive customer feedback and continuous growth helps us cement our place as one of the world’s leading IT solutions enterprises, helping us deliver services and solutions in both challenging and exciting situations.

We believe that hiring a diverse team is crucial to our success and our recruiting decisions are based on your skills and experience as an individual. We actively encourage consistent growth on our journey towards a culture of inclusion and recognise that the people we employ are vital to providing a great customer experience. As such, we have a variety of training, support, and tools available to aid in your continual personal and professional development. Our ongoing goal is to drive innovation and modernise operations across the board, which includes furthering the skills of our colleagues. At DXC, building a better you, builds a better us.

At DXC, one of our platinum accounts has an opening for an Automation Test Engineer.  The successful candidate will work within multiple teams and will be highly organised, with excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail. Your role will include executing functional tests and authoring significant revisions to test materials as necessary.

Role responsibilities:

• Contribute to test planning, scheduling, and managing test resources; lead formal test execution phases on larger projects

• Define test cases and create integration and system test scripts and configuration test questionnaires from functional requirement documents

• Maintain defect reports and update reports following regression testing

• Adhere to and advocate use of established quality methodology and escalate issues as appropriate

• Understand the functional design of software products/suites being tested and their underlying technologies to facilitate authoring testware, diagnosing system issues, and ensuring that tests accurately address required business functionality

• Apply basic industry and functional area knowledge related to the software product being tested and applicable regulatory statutes to determine whether system components meet business specifications

• Develop specified testing deliverables over the lifecycle of the project

What you will bring to the team:

• Excellent organisation and time management skills

• Effective analytical, planning, and problem-solving skills

• Good personal computer and business solutions software skills

• Great communication and presentation skills with both peers and Client.

• Ability to write lengthy procedural, step-based narrative test materials including the necessary testbed set-up steps

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively

Desirable Skills and Technologies

• Knowledge of varied OE; Windows, Redhat, Linux

• Exposure to Cloud and virtualisation technologies; AWS, Azure, VMWare

• Experience working with configuration management, defect tracking, query tools, software productivity tools, and templates used to create test scripts, trace matrices, etc.

• Experience working with software product testing and applicable regulatory statutes

• Experience in Oracle, SQL/PL_SQL, MongoDB, or other relevant programs.

What we will do for you:

• Competitive compensation

• Pension scheme

• DXC Select – Our comprehensive benefits package (includes private health/medical insurance, childcare vouchers, gym membership and more)

• Perks at Work (discounts on technology, groceries, travel and more)

• DXC incentives (recognition tools, employee lunches, regular social events etc)

At DXC Technology, we believe strong connections and community are key to our success. Our work model prioritizes in-person collaboration while offering flexibility to support wellbeing, productivity, individual work styles, and life circumstances. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.

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