After application, had call with HR followed by another call with the QA team lead. All good so far. Was asked to complete a technical challenge however the challenge given appeared to be aimed at a application developer role and did not test any of the skills or technologies listed on the job description. Completed to the best of my ability but felt it wasn’t a very fair test as a Test Automation Developer would never be asked to produce algorithms of the type found in the test. Also at no point in the test was “quality” mentioned - surely a QA engineer would be asked about how close should be tested or how a complex test automation framework should be constructed. Also the practice scenarios were completely different to those in the actual test. Followed up with an email saying I wished to discuss the content of the test. Was told another call would be arranged and I shared a list of times and dates that worked for me. Three weeks later I am still waiting on a response. I have chased twice. Like many other reviews on here, I appear to have been ghosted by HR! Very unprofessional process and I was since told by a recruiter that this is a recurring problem with the Belfast BV team.