Test Automation Engineer – Principal & Senior Roles

Overview

In this role, you will lead automation efforts to support Scrum teams and enable an automation-first approach. You’ll extend and maintain test frameworks, explore new tooling, and ensure rapid, reliable testing across a growing portfolio. You’ll drive best practices, collaborate with the QA Centre of Excellence, and mentor team members to uplift the testing capability. This is a chance to shape our test automation capabilities within a fast-paced, data-driven, digital insurance environment.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexible working – hybrid
• Competitive bonus scheme
• Private medical insurance (PMI)
• 4x salary life assurance
• Matched pension contributions up to 10%
• 27 days annual leave + bank holidays

Responsibilities

• Provide automation capabilities to support Scrum Teams and the Automation Only approach, extending automation frameworks.
• Identify opportunities to enhance/test automation tooling and support evaluation, decision-making, implementation, and maintenance.
• Maintain tooling to meet growing demand and enable early, continuous testing by Scrum Teams.
• Deliver timely and accurate Test Automation MI and quality measures to support continuous improvement.
• Define and maintain test automation best practices and drive collaboration within Scrum Teams and the QA community via the Centre of Excellence and engagement activities.
• Mentor direct reports, junior staff, and new joiners to develop necessary competencies.

Key requirements

• Proficient practical experience in Testing Automation
• Extensive experience in an agile environment
• Transformational leadership skills with ability to influence tooling/process changes
• Strong mentoring skills for staff development
• Proficient with Jira or Octane for backlog/test case management
• Excellent knowledge of declarative Gherkin for business rules and automated tests with Cucumber
• Strong coding skills in Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or C#
• Experience with UI automation tools such as Selenium, Selenium Grid, Playwright, or Cypress
• Ability to test APIs via code or tools like SoapUI, Postman
• Experience with CI platforms such as AzureDevOps or Jenkins

• Transformational leadership
• Mentoring
• Collaboration
• Jira/Octane backlog and test management
• Gherkin/Cucumber
• Java/JavaScript/TypeScript/C# coding for tests

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