Role Purpose
The Automation Engineer plays a crucial role in implementing and maintaining automation solutions to improve the efficiency, consistency, and effectiveness of the software development and delivery lifecycle.
This role requires a strong technical background in test automation and the ability to work collaboratively with developers, business analysts, product owners, QAs and other stakeholders.
Responsibilities
* Automation Design and Development: Design and develop automation scripts and frameworks to support testing, deployment, and other aspects of the development lifecycle
* Tool Integration: Integrate automation tools and frameworks into the software development lifecycle, ensuring they are used to their full potential.
* Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD): Work on enhancing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ensuring automated builds, tests, and deployments are efficient and reliable.
* Collaboration: Collaborate with developers, testers, and other stakeholders to understand their needs and provide automation solutions that add value.
* Maintenance and Troubleshooting: Maintain existing automation frameworks and scripts, troubleshooting and resolving issues as they arise to ensure continuous operation.
* Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of automation scripts, frameworks, and processes, ensuring they are understandable and accessible to other team members.
* Training and Knowledge Sharing: Provide training and share knowledge on automation tools and best practices within the team and across the organisation.
* Quality Assurance: Ensure that automation scripts and frameworks meet quality standards, conducting code reviews and other quality assurance activities.
* Continuous Improvement: Actively seek opportunities to improve automation processes and tools, staying up to date with industry best practices and emerging technologies
* Drive an automation first approach to all testable items, using discussion, debate and risk to find the right balance between automated and non-automated testing. Promote and implement a Shift-Left approach to Testing and Automation.
Skills and Experience Required Essential
* Minimum of 2 years experience in test automation engineering, automation tools, scripting languages, and test frameworks.
* Experience in automation skills/knowledge:
o API/UI testing
o .NET C#
o Selenium
o SpecFlow/ReqnRoll
o Git
o CI/CD practices
o Browser test automation using Browserstack
o ATDD, BDD & TDD
o Postman/SoapUI
o Agile Test Quadrants and the Automation Test Pyramid
* A passion for quality and a continuous improvement mindset
* Demonstrable automation first mentality and adept at finding the right balance between automated, exploratory, functional, and non-functional testing
* Strong technical & interpersonal skills
* Experience working in both agile squads and project teams
Desirable
* Understanding of the UK General Insurance market
* Experience in designing and implementing an automation framework for performance testing
* Experience using Ruby
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