Senior Test Automation Engineer

We have an opportunity for an experienced Senior Test Automation Engineer to develop and manage test automation frameworks for a variety of applications within our Data and Analytics tribe. You will work within the Data and Analytics tribe comprised of Software Engineers, Data Analysts, Cloud Engineers and Data Scientists whose primary focus is to design and develop innovative technology solutions for a variety of internal stakeholders.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and curious individual, who can think creatively to solve problems and meet user requirements. You must have a keen interest in testing and quality assurance, applying shift-left, test-first principles with hands on experience of automating testing, designing, and implementing testing automation frameworks.  Experience of working in an integrated team, refining, and prioritising a backlog and delivering in an Agile methodology is a must.

Main Duties 

As part of a multi-discipline team challenged with building in a cloud data platform, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality of the services and applications we are developing. This will include:

• Defining tools and frameworks to develop and maintain test automation.
• Lead QA in refinement and 3 Amigos, with examples of Acceptance Criteria for all test types.
• Identification of test automation opportunities.
• Work closely with the development team to define strategy and best practices.
• Looking for opportunities to “Shift left” testing and test automation.
• Providing clear and accurate documentation for the tests and test automation.
• Contributing towards the continuous improvement of testing and test automation practices.
• Integrating automated tests with the CI/CD pipeline.
• Sharing Best Practice and owning the testing process is in all cadence ceremonies.
• Mentoring Engineers, Graduate and Junior population.
• You will also be expected to keep your skills up to date by following advancements in testing and test automation.

Skills and Experience

Essential:

• At least 3 years of experience in building complex test automation framework from scratch using Java or Python.
• Automated API/component integration testing with experience with Postman or similar tooling.
• Experience in integrating automated testing into a CI/CD pipeline – especially any experience with Azure DevOps or Jenkins.
• Strong experience in BDD with Cucumber or similar framework.
• Experience with non-functional testing with JMeter or similar.
• Experience of working in an agile environment and the role of QA in agile ceremonies.
• Experience stubbing and creating automation for microservice architecture at distributed scale.
• Experience with Data Analytics, Big Data or similar.
• Working knowledge of JIRA, and git.
• Real passion for clean code, automation testing and continuous delivery.

Desirable:

• Experience with automating tests within Cloud Platform.
• An enthusiastic mentor for team to adopt automation as a definition of done.
• Leading test automation strategy and mentoring testers on the automation testing process.
• Experience of software development.

Interview process:

An online test followed by a two-stage interview process; one interview around the online test/experience and another interview involving a 3-amigos session and competency-based questions.

Admiral: Where You Can

We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We’re committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service.

Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.

We’re proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We’re fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.

Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here.

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