Test Automation Engineer

The Admiral Group is a multinational financial services provider, where data and technology are key to our success. We have an opportunity for an experienced Test Automation Engineer to develop and manage test automation frameworks for a variety of applications within our Digital tribe.

You will work within the Digital tribes comprised of multi-disciplined squads whose primary focus is to design and develop technology solutions that support our Digital applications for a variety of stakeholders.

About You

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.

As we work within the Scaled Agile framework, we are looking for someone who can work both independently and as part of a team within a fast-paced and changing environment. This requires an individual who can deliver to agreed timelines, communicating effectively, and thinking innovatively.

Experience of working in an integrated team, refining, and prioritising a backlog and delivering in an Agile methodology is a must.

Responsibilities:

As part of a multi-discipline team, 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.
• Performing exploratory and manual tests where applicable.
• 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.

You will also be expected to keep your skills up to date by following advancements in testing and test automation.

Skills and Experience:

• Experience in building complex test automation frameworks.
• Experience of Automated API/component integration testing and API tools such as Postman and SoapUI.
• Experience in integrating automated testing into a CI/CD pipeline – especially any experience with tools such as Jenkins or Azure Cloud.
• Strong experience in Java, Selenium and 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.
• Working knowledge of JIRA, and Git.
• Real passion for clean code, automation testing and continuous delivery.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• 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.
• Understanding of the different types of Automation Frameworks e.g., Data Driven, Keyword, Process etc.
• Proven knowledge and application of SQL.
• Understanding of web frameworks such as Angular or React.
• Understanding of javascript or typescript
• Experience with Browserstack.
• Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes.
• Experience with Chai.
• Experience with JSON / XML and executing server requests.
• Understanding of REST and SOAP.
• Understanding of Node.js and NPM.

Interview process

There will be a one stage interview  (Technical and Competency based) for this role. Interviews will take place throughout September and October). 

Our Commitment to You

At Admiral, we are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. Admiral is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment.

Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance

We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to Work For in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here.

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