Job Description
Role Purpose: The Senior Automation Engineer holds a pivotal role in enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of software development and delivery processes through the design, development, and implementation of test automation solutions. This role requires a strong technical background in test automation, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with developers, business analysts, product owners, QAs, and other stakeholders.
Responsibilities
1. Automation Design and Development: Design, develop, and maintain automation scripts and frameworks to support testing, deployment, and other aspects of the development lifecycle.
2. Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and guidance to other automation engineers, helping to solve complex automation challenges and promote best practices.
3. Tool Evaluation and Integration: Evaluate and integrate automation tools and frameworks into the software development lifecycle, ensuring they are used to their full potential.
4. Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD): Work on enhancing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ensuring automated builds, tests, and deployments are efficient and reliable.
5. Performance Testing: Design and implement automation scripts for performance testing, ensuring software performance meets required non-functional requirements.
6. Collaboration: Collaborate with developers, testers, and other stakeholders to understand their needs and provide automation solutions that add value.
7. Troubleshooting and Optimisation: Troubleshoot issues within automation scripts and frameworks, optimising them for performance, reliability, and maintainability.
8. Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of automation scripts, frameworks, and processes, ensuring they are understandable and accessible to other team members.
9. Training and Knowledge Sharing: Provide training and share knowledge on automation tools and best practices within the team and across the organisation.
10. Quality Assurance: Ensure that automation scripts and frameworks meet quality standards, conducting code reviews and other quality assurance activities.
11. Mentorship: Mentor QA team members, sharing knowledge and best practices to enhance the overall capabilities of the QA team.
12. People Management: Manage a small number of Automation Engineers and be responsible for career development, objectives, performance reviews, and other people management responsibilities.
13. Continuous Improvement: Actively seek opportunities to improve automation processes and tools, staying up to date with industry best practices and emerging technologies.
14. Automation Approach: 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
1. Essential: Minimum of 3 years’ experience in test automation engineering, automation tools, scripting, and test frameworks.
2. Expert level test automation skills/knowledge: API/UI testing, .NET, C#, Selenium, SpecFlow/ReqnRoll, Git/Azure DevOps CI/CD practices (Pipelines), Browser test automation using Browserstack, ATDD, BDD & TDD, Postman/SoapUI, Performance testing – design and implementation using JMeter, K6 or equivalent.
3. Demonstrable: ‘Automation first’ mentality and adept at finding the right balance between automated, exploratory, functional, and non-functional testing.
4. Strong: Technical leadership & interpersonal skills.
5. Extensive: Experience working in both agile squads and project teams.
6. Desirable: Understanding of the UK General Insurance market, experience using Ruby.
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