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Job Title: Automation Tester
Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne
Salary: Competitive + package (dependent on experience)
Hybrid Working: This role will require you to work from our Newcastle, Cobalt Business Park office 3 days per week.

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person.

As a team, our Advanced Technology Centre is a thriving technology and innovation hub from where we deliver high quality services to a number of private and public sector clients. You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.

In our team you will learn:

• How to provide solutions to real world problems across a variety of industries.
• How to help transform leading organisations and communities around the world.
• How best to develop your skills and hone your talents within an innovative technology environment.

Job Qualifications

The following skills and experience are essential for this role:

• Experience automating functional testing of SaaS software, writing scripts in Java.
• Experience in using other test tools such as Selenium, Cucumber, Karate, Rest-assured or Wiremock.
• Experience working with users to design and conduct manual testing, developing a good understanding of the requirements, user needs and solution design in order to differentiate between defects and enhancements.
• A proven track record of testing software developments in a structured environment.
• A complete understanding of the Defect Management lifecycle and knowledge of one or more defect management tools e.g. JIRA, Bugzilla or HP ALM.

Set yourself apart:

• Ability to communicate effectively with clients across a range of industry sectors.
• Proven history of working within a complex and diverse delivery environment.
• Experience working in Agile (Scrum, Kanban or SAFe) environment/teams.

What’s In It For You