Senior Test Automation Engineer

at  Searchlight Cyber Ltd

WHO ARE WE?

Searchlight Cyber provides organisations x with relevant and actionable dark web threat intelligence, to help them identify and prevent criminal activity.
Founded in 2017 with a mission to stop criminals acting with impunity on the dark web, we have been involved in some of the world’s largest dark web investigations and have the most comprehensive dataset based on proprietary techniques and ground-breaking academic research.
Today we help government and law enforcement, enterprises, and managed security services providers around the world to illuminate deep and dark web threats and prevent attacks.

ABOUT THE POSITION

The Senior Test Automation Engineer will have the exciting opportunity to join our Cerberus or DarkIQ teams to build new and extend existing test automation frameworks. This person will report directly to the QA Manager.
We’re looking for someone with experience creating automation frameworks from scratch for UI and API tests, for SaaS based products ideally. The role is crucial in ensuring that we reach and maintain sufficient test automation coverage across UI, API and non-functional testing.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• Experience creating automation frameworks from scratch using Javascript or Typescript, ideally using Cypress or Playwright
• Previous experience in maintaining a QA provision to support SaaS products.
• Exceptional communication skills - able to translate technical issues and concepts for potentially non technical stakeholders
• Experience in building provision would be advantageous, whoever the role would also suit someone that has held a senior QA position for some time and is now looking for the next step in their career
• A history of becoming embedded in both product and software development teams, becoming a trusted advisor on all things QA
• Our applications are built using Python, PHP, Laravel and Vue; experience testing this technology stack would be beneficial
• Knowledge of Agile and commercial development processes
• Experience of developing and creating automated testing procedures and CI/CD would be advantageous
• Demonstrate a security-first approach
• No certifications are required for this role, however a certification such as ISTQB or similar would be beneficial

Please refer the Job description for details