Automation Engineer

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

11/11/2024

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.
  
  

Essential

Skills and Experience Required

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in test automation engineering, automation tools, scripting languages, and test frameworks.
• Experience in automation skills/knowledge:
• API/UI testing
• .NET C#
• Selenium
• SpecFlow/ReqnRoll
• Git
• CI/CD practices
• Browser test automation using Browserstack
• ATDD, BDD & TDD
• Postman/SoapUI
• 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