Automation Test Engineer

Requirements of the role

Our Test team works with our Agile teams to deliver positive outcomes on a range of projects and programmes for both the organisation, and saver, for years to come.

Our team is dedicated to ensuring that our software and applications work correctly and meet quality standards. Within this role, you’ll be operating within an exciting and dynamic company-wide technology change programme, which will see the development and delivery of new systems enabling us to support regulatory activity in the business.

We are looking for a Test Automation Engineer to join us across a variety of programmes.

As Test Automation Lead, you’ll work as a key member of a DDaT Service Delivery team designing, developing, and delivering effective Automation Testing during the development process in a long-lived continuous improvement team.

We will also provide you with support and further training to keep you up to date with the newest technologies to develop your skills further.

Responsibilities

You will:

• lead investigative work into problems and opportunities in existing processes
• lead and advise automation testing with a strategic understanding of IT trends and technologies and how they relate to TPR development and delivery, driving the collection of information and the creation of recommendations for improvements
• input into the overall TPR Test Team strategy, think creatively, ask the right questions and critically evaluate and communicate findings to the larger team
• be the person on-point and overall responsible for the automation testing delivery within a Service Delivery/Automation Test Pool/Platform/enabling team
• devise plans for transforming currently existing manual test scripts into automated test processes
• demonstrate knowledge and effectively work across different tools and software languages
• set up frameworks based on the needs of the team
• lead, assess and peer-review the work of others
• coach/mentor others and support the upskilling and training of Manual Testers
• write functional and non-functional test approaches for Service Teams/Projects and provide guidance/recommendations on risk approaches with the Test Lead and/or Delivery Managers
• devise plans for transforming currently existing manual test scripts into automated test processes

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