QA Lead & Automation Engineer

Description

Job Title QA Lead & Automation Engineer

The company is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

The company in the UK is proud to be named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality and has been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers .

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We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are the company Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.

Conditions

Corporate Title Assistant Vice President

An exciting opportunity for a driven Test Automation Engineer, to define and impact the strategic test

automation approach across a cutting-edge, award-winning department in the Bank’s Technology, Data & Innovation (TDI) division.

As the QA Lead Automation Engineer for Archiving Technology, working with Test Engineers and Product colleagues, you will play a key role in ensuring a thorough and consistent approach to Test Automation across our domain.

You will lead the development and maintenance of Test Automation frameworks and scripts across Archiving Technology for both Functional and Non-Functional testing activities, analysing results and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:

Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them

Competitive salary and non-contributory pension

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days

Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family

A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits

The opportunity to support a wide-ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

Standardisation, Continuous Improvement & Maintenance of Test Automation Framework across the Archiving Technology including coding guidelines

Standard automation test approach to test the different layers of the Product i.e. UI, API, Database, etc.

Automated Test Automation Dashboards for Archiving Tech

Coach and mentor the junior Quality Engineers on Test Automation

Knowledge sharing of approach and solution to Test Automation issues/challenges by demonstration

Standardising the definition of Non-Financial Risk (NFR) & related performance Testing approach; Adherence to Bank’s Performance monitoring standards

Your skills and experience

Experience of defining & implementing Test Automation strategies in large IT organisations, ideally working in an Agile framework operating a CI/CD DevOps approach

Thorough understanding of TDD and BDD techniques including Gerkin, Cucumber syntax

Understanding of Automated design patterns – Page Object Model; Factory Design Pattern, FaçadePattern, Singleton Pattern

Significant experience of following tools: - Selenium & Serenity Automation framework; TestNG; Junit; LoadRunner/Performance Centre; JMeter; Integrating test automation with Jenkins & Team City

Demonstrable experience of defining Non-Functional Requirements and developing performance testing automation frameworks

Good working knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint online, O365, ServiceNow

Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs

How we’ll support you

Training and development to help you excel in your career

Coaching and support from experts in your team

A culture of continuous learning to aid progression

A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs