Quality Automation Specialist

Join us as a Quality Automation Specialist

In this key role, you’ll be undertaking and enabling automated testing activities in all delivery models

We’ll look to you to support teams to develop quality solutions and enable continuous integration and assurance of defect free deployment of customer value

You’ll be working closely with feature teams and a variety of stakeholders, giving you great exposure to professional development opportunities

What you'll do

Joining us in a highly collaborative role, you’ll be contributing to the transformation of testing using quality processes, tools, and methodologies, significantly improving control, accuracy and integrity. You’ll make sure repeatable, constant and consistent quality is built into all phases of the idea to value lifecycle at reduced cost or reduced time to market. It’s a chance to work with colleagues at multiple levels, and with cross-domain, domain, platform and feature teams, to build in quality as an integral part of all activities.

Additionally, you’ll be:

Supporting the design of automation test strategies, aligned to business or programme goals

Actioning and evolving more predictive and intelligent testing approaches, based on automation and innovative testing products and solutions

Collaborating to refine the scope of manual and automated testing required, the creation of automated test scripts, user documentation and artefacts

Designing and creating a low maintenance suite of stable, re-usable automated tests, which are usable both within the product or domain and across domains and systems in an end-to-end capacity

Applying testing and delivery standards by understanding the product development lifecycle along with mandatory, regulatory and compliance requirements

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with experience of automated testing, particularly from an Agile development or CI/CD environment. You’ll be an innovative thinker who can identify opportunities and design solutions, coupled with the ability to develop complex automation code.

You’ll have a good understanding of Agile methodologies with experience of working in an Agile team, with the ability to relate everyday work to the strategic vision of the feature. It would be ideal if you have knowledge of the FinTech industry in areas like Payments and Cards.

We’ll also look for you to have:

Experience in end-to-end and automation testing using the latest tools as recommended by the enterprise tooling framework

Hands-on experience in automation frameworks like Playwright and Appium

Hands-on experience on working on SaaS based devices such as Sauce Labs, Browser Stack and using it for test automation

Hands-on experience in either of the programming languages such as JavaScript, Java or Python

A background of designing, developing and implementing automation frameworks in new environments

Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to management level colleagues

Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills