Senior QA Engineer - Automation

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About MWI

MWI is a company owned by AmerisourceBergen that operates out of the United States and the United Kingdom. We support customers in achieving their goals through:

Wholesale Services - Fast access to veterinary pharmaceuticals and supplies through temperature controlled fleet of vehicles, warehouses and an ordering experience through the MWI online store.

Practice Management Technology (Merlin) - Web/mobile solutions that support the core workflows of your veterinary business from warehousing to patient management, appointments and communication.

Job Details:

As a Senior QA Engineer, you’ll be joining one of our engineering teams in terms of delivering specific technical projects, while working closely with the QA group for driving and participating in system wide quality assessment and improvement initiatives. We’re in the process of re-engineering our cloud-based Merlin Practice Management Platform to be more “cloud native”, splitting out a core set of services (Java, Spring Boot) on Azure using App Services, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Redis etc. We are striving to test smarter and faster to deliver solutions our customers need. You will work on a mixture of automated test frameworks and tests, while carrying out manual verification and critically assessing where test coverage should be placed. You will be at the forefront of ensuring what our customers get is Quality.

This is a hands-on automation tester role for someone with deep experience of using both Java and Javascript for automation testing. You should have experience of working with cloud platforms (Azure preferred, but not essential), a good understanding of agile principles, and software testing best-practices. You will coach more junior QAs and take the lead on test initiatives while working closely with the Team Lead as part of refinement and 3 Amigo sessions.

Our teams are distributed around the UK with offices based in Camberley and Castle Cary. There are 60 people in the UK today across three divisions: Product, Engineering and Support. We are scaling to over forty people within our department with significant investment from our parent company. This is a mostly remote position with occasional (monthly) visits to one of our two offices.

Responsibilities:

• Design, create and augment test frameworks for cloud-based solutions in a multi-tenanted environment.

• Work with multiple teams to ensure both functional and non-functional requirements are defined and understood, ensuring efficiency in implementation and test.

• Work on testing our applications to ensure high quality as well as performing load, stress and security testing with the team.

• Introduce new tools and carry out POCs to drive our test suite forward.

• Provide coaching and support to junior QA’s in the team.

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Requirements:

• Strong technical background

• Analytical and methodical approach

• Ability to learn quickly and hit the ground running

• Considerable experience with Selenium, Cypress, Cucumber and JMeter

• Experience of testing Web Applications, Web Services and Microservices

• Knowledge of good practices and design patterns in test code

• Experience in API testing with tools such as Postman and WireMock

• Working knowledge of SQL

• Working knowledge of relational databases

• Knowledge of ISTQB standards

• Experience writing clear and concise test plans and test cases

• Experience working within a development team in an agile environment

• Experience with JIRA or similar workflow and defect tracking systems

• Experience working with Git based source control systems

Desirable:

• ISTQB certification

• Experience with other web automation tools apart from Selenium

• Exposure to Java unit testing Junit/Mockito

• CI knowledge such as Jenkins

What Cencora offers:

• Remote position with optional office time

• Be part of a supportive, collaborative team and have the opportunity to work with various tech-focused teams

• Opportunity to progress and grow into a more senior role later on

• Support our veterinary practice clients in enhancing patient care by creating effective tools for their daily operations

What Cencora offers

​Benefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.

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