Automation Engineer

at  Peoples Partnership

DESCRIPTION

Automation Engineer (7 Month FTC)
About People’s Partnership:
At the heart of our not-for-profit organisation is a commitment and a motivation to make the future-saving experience a simple one for our members. We champion fairness and simplicity, not profit-chasing. Imagine a financial adventure where everyone’s a winner, fuelled by our exceptional service and brought to life by the fantastic individuals who work for us. We’re a diverse employer with a flexible, hybrid working approach, ensuring everyone gets the opportunity to come to work and be the best version of themselves.
What you’ll be doing:

In collaboration with other business areas and stakeholders, the Automation Engineer will be responsible for delivering against the test strategy and devising test plans relating to the strategic change programme. They will also need to support the programme through effective communication at all levels of the organisation including our partners. The role will involve testing across all software phases: system, regression, integration, performance, user acceptance testing and automation.

• Assist the Test Manager and Test Leads in planning and delivering all test activities for the programme
• Collaborate with internal & external partners to deliver against the agreed test activities and deliverables in a timely manner
• Actively participate in planning activities and provide test effort against the work required to be carried out
• Responsible for producing test collateral and gaining sign off from the appropriate parties/individuals/business areas
• Responsible for test planning and leading execution of the test plan

What we’re looking for:

• 3+ Years of test automation using Selenium web driver or similar
• Excellent programming experience using Java or C#
• Experience of designing and implementing automation frameworks\solutions
• Experience of automation using cloud-based test solutions such as BrowserStack\SauceLabs
• Proven experience and knowledge of working with Cucumber/Specflow
• Good knowledge and experience of DevOps and/or Jira
• Proven experience in API testing using Postman or similar tools

What you can expect from us:

• Generous pension contributions with an employer contribution of up to 14%
• Real living wage
• Income protection, critical illness cover & death in service insurance
• Employee healthcare
• Parental and adoption leave
• Learning & development opportunities and study support
• Travel season ticket loans
• Subsidised restaurant in our Crawley office
• Volunteering days and charity payroll giving
• Onsite gym
• Ride-to-Work scheme
• Social clubs and events

You can learn more about how we support our employees on our website
Disability Statement
People’s Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to treating all our people (and all who apply for a role at People’s Partnership) equally and enabling them to perform at their best and demonstrate what they have to offer. We are a disability committed employer, please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment process (application, selection assessments where relevant, and interview) to enable you to show us the best “you”.

• Assist the Test Manager and Test Leads in planning and delivering all test activities for the programme
• Collaborate with internal & external partners to deliver against the agreed test activities and deliverables in a timely manner
• Actively participate in planning activities and provide test effort against the work required to be carried out
• Responsible for producing test collateral and gaining sign off from the appropriate parties/individuals/business areas
• Responsible for test planning and leading execution of the test pla