QA Lead & Automation Engineer

Robert Walters is working in partnership with a global financial services institution. Operating as a global investment bank and financial services company, offering a wide range of products and services to corporations, institutions and clients. Due to continued growth of the Birmingham offices, they are keen to appoint an experienced QA Lead & Automation Engineer, paying a salary range of £60,000 to £62,000 plus benefits, with a hybrid working model from the central Birmingham offices.

As an experienced QA Lead & Automation Engineer, you will work with test engineers and product colleagues - ensuring a consistent approach to Test Automation across the domain. In addition, you will lead the development and maintenance of Test Automation frameworks and scripts across Archiving Technology for both Function & Non-Functional testing activities, analysing results and identifying areas for continuous improvement.

QA Lead & Automation Engineer: Duties

• 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 ie UI, API, Database
• Automated Test Automation Dashboards for Archiving Tech
• Knowledge sharing of approach and solution to Test Automation issues
• Standardising the definition of Non-Financial Risk (NFR) & related performance Testing approach

QA Lead & Automation Engineer: Experience

• Essential experience of large-scale automation projects
• Essential experience in Selenium and Java based automation
• Taking the lead and ensuring automation is adhered in every product (12 products in domain)
• Need to be good with layers of testing - API's, file steams, file validations
• Developed frameworks from inception
• Design comprehensive framework for API, UI, and database testing
• Experience of automation-first approach
• Experience of defining & implementing Test Automation strategies in large IT organisations
• Working in an Agile framework operating a CI/CD DevOps approach
• Good working knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint online, O365, ServiceNow

The permanent opportunity for a QA Lead & Automation Engineer will pay a salary range up to £62,000 with a hybrid working model form the central Birmingham offices.

This is an opportunity to join a global financial services industry leader that has grown year on year. For further information, please apply with an updated CV and reach out to Ajay Hayre on (see below)

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