**SC CLEARANCE REQUIRED, 2 DAYS ONSITE IN TELFORD**
Project Overview:
This role will form part of a new scrum team within Minerva Platform to develop and deliver the Ingestion and Risking within the SAS Platform including IDP.
We are seeking a skilled and proactive Test Automation Specialist to join our core build delivery team. This role will be instrumental in designing, developing, and maintaining automated test frameworks and pipelines to support the deployment and validation of analytics solutions on the SAS Viya 4 platform.
Key Responsibilities:
Working as part of an Agile team participate in ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning, retrospectives, demos and reporting.
Utilise strong Stakeholder Management and communication skills to collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers, and Business Analysts to ensure test coverage aligns with business requirements and technical specifications Ensure that appropriate automation tooling is implemented and utilised to meet business and technical needs.
Design and implement automation test strategies and plans for SAS Viya 4 applications, for UI based Visual Analytics (VA) and Intelligent Decisioning (ID), as well as for integration testing of data pipelines.
Develop and maintain test scripts using appropriate automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, PyTest, JUnit) and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines.
Confirm the test data strategy to be used Maintain and evolve the test automation suite to support regression, performance, and integration testing.
Support the integration of test automation into Git-based CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).
Troubleshoot and resolve issues in test environments, including SAS Viya containerized deployments (e.g., OpenShift, Kubernetes).
Contribute to test data management and environment provisioning strategies Ensure that appropriate defect management is undertaken Ensure results and progress are clearly articulated to relevant stakeholders.
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