Principal Test Automation Engineer

Overview

We are a digital insurance provider with ambitious plans to become the best and biggest in the UK market. Over the past years we have made significant investments in data and tech capabilities, especially within our CIO function. Our CIO team is at the forefront of driving innovation and ensuring our technology infrastructure supports our ambitious goals. We have nurtured our 4

Cs culture fostering collaboration, creativity and continuous improvement.

• Provide automation capabilities that support the Scrum Teams to deliver on the Automation Only approach reducing the percentage of tests that cannot be automated through designing and implementing extensions / adjustments to the Automation Frameworks.
• Identify new opportunities to enhance / extend our test automation capabilities with new and/or updated tooling supporting the evaluation decision making implementation and maintenance of these tools.
• Managing the ongoing maintenance of the tooling to meet the growing demand increasing performance and allowing the Scrum Teams test early and often on a continuous basis.
• Provide capabilities to support the provision of timely and accurate Test Automation MI for all Scrum Teams which includes quality measures where possible supporting continuous improvement.
• Define, implement and maintain test automation best practices and drive proactive collaboration and engagement within Scrum Teams and the wider QA community through the Centre of Excellence as well as regular Brown Bag sessions and other means of engagement.
• Mentoring all direct reports, junior staff and new joiners to achieve the necessary competencies to progress.

• Proficient practical experience working in a Testing Automation role
• Extensive experience working in an agile environment
• Transformational leadership skills being able to influence decision making and implement new tools, processes and procedures in support of the company’s vision
• Good mentoring skills to support direct reports in their ongoing development

• Proficient knowledge of at least one agile methodology (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
• Familiar with backlog and test case management in a system of record such as Jira or Octane
• Excellent knowledge using declarative Gherkin to capture business rules run as automated tests with Cucumber
• Strong coding skills to implement automated tests in one or more of Java, JavaScript, Typescript, C#
• Comfortable with source control using Git Hub
• Skilled in UI automation with Selenium & Selenium Grid, Playwright or Cypress
• Ability to implement tests against API either in code or via tools such as SoapUI, Postman
• Good understanding and experience using continuous integration platforms such as Azure Dev Ops or Jenkins (or equivalent)

Join us and you’ll find a different way of doing things. We call it the 4

Cs. We focus on getting it right for our colleagues, customers, company and community. As one of our colleagues you’ll be helping to drive our growth so in return we’ll give you all the support, training and development you need, not to mention plenty of recognition and rewards and the scope to voice your ideas and put them into practice.

• Competitive salary and £5,000 car allowance
• Flexible hybrid working approach
• Annual 4
  
  Cs performance bonus scheme
• Private medical insurance (PMI)
• Life assurance cover, income protection at no extra cost and matched pension contributions up to 10%
• Discounts, cashback, free independent mortgage advice and free access to financial wellbeing support
• Thriving mental health programme and 24/7 support
• 27 days annual leave, bank holidays with options to buy or sell a week, health care cash‑back plans, dental plans, discounted health assessments, Cycle to Work and tech schemes, free onsite facilities and social events throughout the year

Regrettably we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

Hastings Group is an equal opportunities employer which means we treat people fairly. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status. We provide a thorough referencing process that includes credit and criminal record checks. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment and encourage applicants to request reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process.