Quality Assurance Engineer

Company Description**Informa PLC is a leading international events, intelligence and scholarly research group.**Our purpose is to champion the specialist. Through hundreds of powerful brands we work with businesses and professionals in specialist markets, providing the connections, intelligence and opportunities that help customers grow, do business, make breakthroughs and take better informed decisions. Informa is listed on London Stock Exchange and a member of FTSE 100, with over 11,000 colleagues working in more than 30 countries.Each of our five operating divisions has a distinct focus:**Informa Connect** aims to provide expert content you cannot Google, and access to specialist networks and communities, through major branded annual events and specialist digital communities and content services.**Informa Markets** creates global platforms for industries, specialist markets and customers to trade, innovate and grow, delivering over 550 events annually, specialist digital content and actionable data solutions.**Informa Tech **aims to inspire the global technology community to design, build and run a better digital world by providing research, media, training and events to specialist technology communities worldwide.Our fifth division is **Global Support**, which provides shared, efficient business services and function-specific expertise to each of Informa's operating divisions.**Job Description**:Quality Assurance Engineer **gathers, interprets, and uses complex data to develop actionable testing steps** that will improve processes ,optimize results, in order produce high quality products.The role combines Quality assurance skills with high analytical end-to-end testing skills.- Performing requirements analysis.- Conducting meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings.- Effectively communicating insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.- Ensuring solutions meet business needs and requirements.- Performing user acceptance testing.- Performing Quality Assurance Activities- Managing projects testing, developing testing plans, and monitoring performance.- Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint- Design and develop test automation using internal and opensource tools & infrastructure.- Develop testing strategy, plans, estimates, and schedule, to support projects and product releases.- Design, create and maintain testing framework(s) as needed.- Track the development process of the product from start to finish.- Collaborate with software engineers to understand product architecture and features and build code in a clean and testable manner.- Execute end to end front end testing and backend BDD testing.**Qualifications**:- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, IT (related field) or equivalent work experience.- Mid-level years of software QA experience.- Experience in writing test plans, test automation, and test cases.- Strong experience testing RESTful APIs (Postman, RESTAssured, ARC etc.)- Experience with functional UI test automation frameworks like Selenium and Applitools.- Experience with app test automation frameworks like Appium.- Experience writing E2E tests (with Cypress) and writing BDD tests with Cucumber- Certified Scrum Master or experience in Agile process and iterative developmentAdditional Information**Key skills**- Critical thinking and problem-solving skills- Attention to detail- Teamwork skills- Written and verbal communication skills- Interpersonal skills- Flexibility- Adaptability- Initiative