QA Automation Test Engineer CGEMJP00337230

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Role Title: QA Automation Test Engineer

Duration: contract to run until 30/09/2026

Location: Mainly remote odd day in London for workshops

Rate: up to £483 p/d Umbrella inside IR35

Clearance required: SC eligible, 5 years in the UK and less that 28 days outside of the UK

Role purpose / summary

Skilled QA automation Engineer to design, build and execute selenium-based load-testing scripts to validate PowerBI Fabric capacity and Visualisation performance, scalability, and reliability and develop regression test scripts.

The role involves modelling user behaviour at scale, automating test scenarios, and ensuring Fabric-backed workloads perform optimally under expected and peak usage conditions.

Key Responsibilities:

Load Test Script Development

Develop Selenium WebDriver scripts and test cases that simulate hight level user interactions across PowerBI Fabric experiences.
BuildScalable automation flows that mimic:
Report and dataset opening
Navigation actions
Refresh events
Create parameterized and data-driven scripts to vary user patterns, concurrency levels, and execution timing.
Develop regression test script pack.

Performance & Capacity Testing

Design and execute load, stress and endurance tests specifically targeting PowerBI Fabric capacity limits.
Capture metrics such as response times, resource consumption, and capacity exhaustion behaviour.

Framework & Tool Integration

Integrate Selenium tests with performance-oriented tools i.e. JMeter
Configure distributed/parallel Selenium execution
Ensure automation runs effectively at scale across multiple browsers and sessions.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Skills

Strong hands-on experience with Selenium WebDriver and UI automation frameworks
Proven experience designing and executing load, stress, and scalability tests
Proficiency in one or more automation languages (Python, Java)
Knowledge of:
Distributed workload execution
Multi-threading and parallelisation concepts
REST API testing and validation
Familiarity with Microsoft PowerBI, Fabric workloads, or similar analytical tools

Soft Skills

Strong attention to details and analytical thinking
Excellent problem solving and debugging skills
Clear communicator able to articulate findings to engineering, delivery manager and leadership teams
Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively in cross-functional environment

Microsoft Power BI performance testing desirable

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply
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Location:
London
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
IT

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