Test Automation Engineer

Admiral Money are recruiting a Test Automation Engineer to join our growing delivery team.

Hyrbid working pattern is ideally 1 day a week but will consider remote (occassionally travel to site required).

About us

Admiral Money is a growing financial services business within the Admiral Group. We combine the freedom and innovation of a smaller, agile organisation with the stability and support of a well‑established parent company.

Since launching our first products in 2017, we have continued to expand and evolve, with a strong focus on customer experience, quality, and responsible lending. We are passionate about building reliable, well‑designed digital products and creating an environment where our people can collaborate effectively and deliver meaningful outcomes.  Admiral Money is an FCA-regulated consumer lender, which means our software must meet strict compliance and governance requirements. Quality and security are embedded in everything we do.

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About the Role

We are looking for a Test Automation Engineer to join one of our delivery teams and contribute to the quality of our applications through effective automated and exploratory testing.

In this role, you will be responsible for building, maintaining, and executing automated tests within a product or team area. You will work independently on automation tasks while collaborating closely with developers, product owners, and analysts to ensure testing is well integrated into the delivery process.

This role suits someone who is confident with test automation in a commercial environment and is comfortable taking responsibility for their own work without being expected to define strategy or lead others.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated UI test suites using Cypress and Selenium
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of Python‑based automation frameworks
• Create and execute API automation tests to validate backend services and integrations
• Carry out manual and exploratory testing to support effective coverage and investigate complex scenarios
• Work closely with developers, product owners, and analysts to understand requirements and agree appropriate test approaches
• Participate fully in Agile ceremonies, including refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
• Integrate and maintain automated tests within existing CI/CD pipelines
• Monitor test execution, investigate failures, and contribute to improving test reliability and maintainability
• Support test data management and test environment configuration where required
• Ensure test artefacts and documentation are accurate, clear, and kept up to date
• Continuously improve test coverage and automation effectiveness within the team
• Support less experienced test engineers through pairing, code review feedback and practical guidance on automation best practice.
• Maintain accurate time tracking and test automation metrics in Xray to support capacity planning and quality visibility.
• Handle sensitive financial and personal data appropriately in test automation; ensure test practices comply with data security and FCA regulatory obligations.
• Support formal release and change processes; validate automated test execution in pre-production environments.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Commercial experience working as a Test Automation Engineer within an Agile delivery team
• Strong hands‑on experience with Cypress
• Experience using Python to support automated testing and frameworks
• Solid experience with API testing and automation
• Ability to analyse functional and technical requirements to determine appropriate test coverage
• Experience maintaining and extending existing automation suites
• Confidence working independently on automation tasks with minimal supervision
• Experience troubleshooting automated tests, particularly within CI/CD pipelines
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain testing outcomes to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• A pragmatic, quality‑focused mindset with a good understanding of when automation adds value
• Understanding of financial services regulation and data security requirements in an FCA-regulated lending environment; awareness of handling sensitive financial and personal data appropriately.
• Familiarity with test pyramid principles, shift-left testing and risk-based test coverage.
• Ability to challenge requirements and acceptance criteria for testability; proactive mindset focused on continuous improvement and pragmatic quality delivery.
• Experience with Postman (or Bruno) for API testing; familiarity with Xray, Jira and Confluence.

Desirable Experience

• Experience working in financial services, fintech, or other regulated environments
• Experience with BDD approaches (e.g. Gherkin)
• Cross‑browser and cross‑device testing experience
• Experience working with third‑party or offshore development teams
• Exposure to test automation in complex or legacy systems

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.

As a Disability Confident Leader, for candidates with a disability or long-term health condition, that opt into the Disability Confident scheme, we’ll invite a fair and proportionate number of applicants that meet the essential requirements of the role to the first stage of our selection process.

If you need any adjustments or support with your application or during the recruitment process, just let us know. Please do email georgia.farmer@admiralgroup.co.uk or contact us on   07780038264. This number is dedicated to supporting candidates that require reasonable adjustments or support during the application process.

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