Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate. Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 47,000 staff across a network of more than 900 independent companies in over 50 countries and operating more than 800 laboratories. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing.

In 2019, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 4.56 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Edge Testing Solutions are seeking Automation Consultants to work on client sites across The Midlands and the wider UK. The roles requires an experienced Automation test professional with demonstrable experience of using, maintaining and building test automation frameworks. Experience of working in agile or DevOps projects desirable. The successful candidate will be able to work independently with great team skills and problem-solving abilities. A deeper understanding of modern system architectures such as cloud-based system would also be beneficial.

Key Skills required include:

• Experience of test analysis and design
• Expertise with a modern automation tool, for example Selenium, Appium, SoapUI, Cucumber
• Ability to develop code in a relevant language, for example Java, JavaScript, C#
• Agile experience, for example Scrum, Kanban, DSDM, SAFe
• Experience of multiple tools, languages and agile methods advantageous
• Understanding and experience of modern development methods e.g. TDD, BDD, CI/CD
• Ability to work independently and proactively
• Strong organisational skills, able to work to deadlines
• Strong analytical skills with good attention to detail
• Good team working skills
• Excellent communication and reporting skills
• Knowledge of development tools such as version control, environment build, deployment desirable
• Knowledge of monitoring or non-functional test tools (e.g. JMeter) desirable

Location – candidates will be based in Birmingham but flexible to travel and work on client sites across the UK when safe to do so.

Edge Testing, established in 2007, has grown fast to become the UK’s largest independent software testing company. Our talented workforce includes some of the UK’s premier testing thought leaders and experts, who help deliver exceptional services to our clients in the financial services, telecommunications and media, utilities, retail and the public sector.

Our portfolio includes Managed Testing, Consultancy, Performance Testing, Test Automation and Cyber Security as well as our successful Digital Test Hubs and the Edge Academy. It is our broad range of services and the way we do business, that sets us apart from the competition.

In 2018 Edge Testing became part of Eurofins Digital Testing, a Eurofins Scientific division, the world’s leading Testing and Quality Assurance (QA) specialists, who operate globally with test lab facilities in the UK, USA, Belgium, Poland, Sweden and Hong Kong.