Automation Test Lead

Our client seeks an Automation Test Lead to join their team. Role Purpose: Responsible for the adoption, design, implementation and maintenance of the frameworks, artefacts and tooling required to facilitate automated quality assurance across application paths to live. The primary focus is on creating robust automation frameworks and maintaining test suites to support the software development life-cycle. You will collaborate with cross functional technology teams to understand software requirements and design efficient automated testing solutions for each target application, focusing on creating test scripts and frameworks for functional, non-functional, regression and end-to-end automated scripts for products front-end and back-end applications. Working closely with engineering, DevOps and product owners to proactively integrate automated tests into automated CI/CD pipelines across cloud hosted environments (Azure). Engaging with suppliers, product owners and internal technology teams to deliver component, integration and E2E tests that ensures all requirements, features, or stories have been fully tested and accepted by the stakeholders prior to deployment to production services. Using established and emerging technologies to verify the quality, integrity, security, and scalability of deliveries, working closely with technology teams in a highly collaborative environment to deliver software of high value and quality. Key Responsibilities: Design, develop, and maintain scalable and maintainable automated test scripts and frameworks using tools such as Selenium or similar technologies to cover functional, regression, and performance testing. Collaborate with development teams to understand requirements, define test strategies, and identify test scenarios suitable for automation, ensuring comprehensive test coverage. Develop and manage test data sets required for automated testing, ensuring data integrity, consistency, and relevance for different test scenarios. Implement monitoring protocols to demonstrate quality improvement over time. Identify opportunities for efficiencies by implementing best practices, optimising processes, and proactively evaluating emerging technologies, tooling and automation. Mentor and train other members of the team and wider business. Key Skills and Experience: Experience automating various test types (integration tests, chain tests, functional tests, unit tests) for both back-end and front-end systems; Extensive experience in test automation, having worked with frameworks/tools such as Rest-Assured Cucumber, Selenium, Node.js, Postman. Competent building test suites in modern programming languages (i.e Java or JavaScript/Python). Experience working in an agile environment, collaborating with various product, technical and delivery teams. Experience defining test coverage for manual and automation scripts. Demonstrated experience building pipelines, preferably in Azure DevOps, Microsoft .NET; Knowledge of CI/CD, test automation, tooling around test automation; Jenkins, Bit bucket, Github. Previous experience of software development in the financial markets or Fintech (Preferable but not essential). Good communication skills and proactive: on the way to production you work together with other teams and partners.
If you have the required skills please apply online at searchandselect.com quoting reference number: 15870.