Senior Automation Test Engineer
Permanent
Location: London / Home (Hybrid)
Salary: £75,000 – £85,000 + benefits

Skills: Test Automation Leadership, Integration Testing, API Testing, SQL, BDD (Gherkin / SpecFlow), CI/CD, Azure Pipelines

We’re recruiting a Senior Automation Test Engineer for a leading software company that develops advanced solutions for trading and risk management across global financial and energy markets.

This is a hybrid role, requiring regular travel to central London.

The Role

As a Senior Automation Test Engineer, you will provide technical leadership and hands-on expertise across automated testing within agile scrum teams covering the full trade lifecycle.

You will:

• Lead the design, implementation and optimisation of automated test frameworks
• Implement and customise the Triangle Test Automation product
• Remain hands-on with automated test design, execution and reporting
• Provide leadership, mentoring and standards governance for test engineers
• Integrate end-to-end testing into release and deployment processes
• Drive best practice across automation, tooling and quality engineering
• Work closely with developers, testers and business stakeholders

You’ll play a key role in ensuring quality, reliability and scalability across complex, business-critical trading systems.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong experience in test automation within complex, business-critical systems
• Experience leading or mentoring test engineers and driving standards
• Hands-on expertise with SpecFlow (Reqnroll)
• Strong API and integration testing experience
• Solid SQL skills
• Experience with GIT and Azure Pipelines
• Desire to remain technically hands-on
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset

Desirable:

• Experience within Energy Trading or Capital Markets
• Experience with Python, .NET or data testing
• Experience testing event/message-driven architectures (e.g. Kafka, Azure Service Bus)
• Configuration of test data and pipelines (YAML, JSON, XML)
• Bash or PowerShell scripting
• Exposure to performance, stress or security testing
• Degree in Computer Science or related discipline