Senior Automation Test Specialist

<p><span>At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive.   We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. </span></p><p></p><p><span>As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other. </span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><h2><b><u>Job Description</u></b></h2><p><span>This is a great opportunity to join the Opayo Technology Team and be part of the exciting projects and engineering changes we make to ensure the Opayo payment processing gateway continues to be best in class. This high performing team ensures that all changes are implemented successfully across all the Opayo Face-to-Face Payment Gateway.</span></p><p></p><p><b>Test automation</b> is key to this role so we’re looking for somebody to create and maintain test cases using our automated testing frameworks. This role will also provide insight into the lifecycle of how transactions flow through our business and visibility into key business processes and procedures from a testing perspective.</p><p></p><p><span>As a tester you will be embedded into a <b>SCRUM team</b>, working with business analysts and product owners to clarify business requirements for the team.  You will be a pivotal member of the team ensuring that deliverables have fulfilled all functional and non-functional requirements</span></p><p></p><p><span>You will be expected to learn the details of payment processing and with collaboration from BAs guide the developers.  You should have an excellent eye for detail and confidence to hold experienced engineers to account when required.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><b>CORE FUNCTIONS OF ROLE:</b></p><ul><li><p><span>Improving and maintaining (or replacing) existing automation frameworks/tests</span></p></li><li><p><span>Being a strong influence on the Test Team’s decision making and direction</span></p></li><li><p><span>Designing and implementing automation tests cases</span></p></li><li><p><span>Performing exploratory testing, identifying defects and co-ordinating resolution.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Identifying and writing acceptance criteria for user stories</span></p></li><li><p><span>Executing regression testing on software releases</span></p></li><li><p>Review and validate findings, providing feedback and results to scrum team, scrum master and management.</p></li><li><p>Issue test completion and sign-off documentation, ensuring no unexpected impacts to merchants or production system.</p></li><li><p>Be an active participant in Agile ceremonies including daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint retrospective, sprint demo, backlog refinements etc.</p></li><li><p>Assist other business area teams, monitoring and responding to inquiries and questions, tracking and logging calls relevant to test environment.</p></li></ul><p></p><p><b>SKILLS NEEDED:</b></p><ul><li><p>Strong desire to use technical knowledge and learn new systems and business processes</p></li><li><p>Strong development background.  <b>Tests are written in Python</b></p></li><li><p>Software Testing &amp; Quality Assurance skills</p></li><li><p>Analytical &amp; troubleshooting skills</p></li><li><p>Excellent verbal and written communication skills including creating quality <span>documentation/diagrams</span></p></li><li><p>Comfortable with standard development tools such as Git, IDEs, Confluence/Jira</p></li><li><p>Experience with Windows Server</p></li><li><p>Database experience (SQL Server preferred)</p></li><li><p>Ability to multi-task and test a number of projects in parallel</p></li><li><p>Effective management of time and priorities to ensure commitments are met</p></li><li><p>Self-motivated with the energy, drive and ambition to succeed</p></li><li><p>Organised and methodical approach with good attention to detail</p></li><li><p>Good organization skills and ability to manage time and tasks with minimum supervision</p></li><li><p>Should be able to work effectively in fast paced, multi-tasking environment, under time pressure, in an agile/scrum environment with a desire to achieve