Job Description

Test Automation Engineer
Location: Brighton (1-2 days a week in the office)
Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 (plus bonus, excellent benefits)
Permanent

Skills: C#, Selenium and/or Playwright, SQL Server

We are looking to recruit a Test Automation Engineer with experience of designing, developing, and delivering effective Automation Testing during the development process in a long-lived continuous improvement team.

There will be some elements of line management, which 1- 3 people will report into you, however management experience isn’t an essential.

This is a permanent position based in Brighton, with at least 1-2 days a week in the office.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead investigative work into problems and opportunities in existing processes.
• Lead and advise automation testing with a strategic understanding of IT trends and technologies.
• Absorb large amounts of conflicting information and use it to determine solutions.
• 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/Platform/enabling team.
• Demonstrate knowledge of emerging tools and techniques.

• Set up frameworks based on the needs of the team

• Effectively work across different tools and software languages.
• Advise on up-to-date functional and non-functional testing techniques.
• Lead, assess and peer-review the work of others.
• Coach and mentor others with some line management if required.
• Write functional and non-functional test approaches for major projects and provide guidance on risk approaches.
• Devise new functional and non-functional test techniques and provide recommendations in conjunction with the Delivery Test Lead or Test Manager.
• Devise plans for transforming currently existing manual test scripts into automated test processes.

Qualifications:

• Professional experience with manual and automation testing of web-based applications, ideally using Selenium and/or Playwright.
• Experience crafting automation tests and demonstrating test frameworks collaborating with some of the following: RESTful services, Message Queues, Relational Databases.
• Experience of SQL Server and C# and proven capability to write sophisticated queries to analyse problems and prepare data.
• Experience a range of testing methodologies and techniques including agile, with the ability to write test procedures, plans and report development/implementation.
• Extensive experience in automation framework outlining and script coding.