Test Automation Engineer

What is the opportunity?
This is a phenomenal opportunity to be a key member of our UK Engineering & Delivery Team. You will be responsible for leading the technical test team to ensure testing objectives are delivered on our UK Mortgage Platforms. Our ambition is to deliver flexible, scalable, and simple solutions that are secure, engaging and enable our customers, colleagues, and communities to thrive!
In this Role, you will
The Test Automation Engineer will be responsible for producing automated test scripts to support key software applications with automation a key factor and embedding within our Mortgage IT estate. Close interaction with stakeholders will be integral to the role, including business owners, Enterprise Service colleagues and other partners.

1. Become an Integral and effective member of the IT delivery team to develop a strong understanding of project and testing objectives
2. Attend regular meetings & sprint ceremonies
3. Contribute to implementing automated testing within the DevOps (CI/CD) pipeline.
4. Implement test automation framework in Java using Selenium, Cucumber, Eclipse, Jenkins and Maven
5. Coding and developing automated integration, system and regression tests.
6. Build test conditions and scripts to address business and technical use cases
7. Enforce to all the Group controls, processes and solutions to minimise business and IT risk.
8. Operate in compliance with all Group, Legal and Regulatory requirements and standards.

Essential Skills & Experience
Experience of test automation frameworks with practical knowledge and experience in coding Selenium and Java.

1. Experience developing in Java, Microsoft and/or Oracle SQL and working within Agile development environment, including Test Driven Development / Behaviour Driven Development
2. Understanding and experience of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Testing (CT)
3. Experience applying Software Security standard processes.
4. Capacity to operate on a standalone basis on some activities yet work collaboratively with others as required – self-motivated and driven individual.

What will make you stand out?
Experience in C# .Net, Gherkin and/or Spec Flow, Knowledge of Extent Reports.

1. DevOps experience (Jenkins or Azure)
2. Knowledge of Mortgage systems

Essential Qualifications
There are no specific qualifications or minimum educational requirements needed for this role.
More about the team
The UK IT Engineering & Delivery team are part of the Enterprise Services within Bank of Ireland and are responsible for the full end-to-end delivery and support of a wide range of Mortgage applications. Services provided by the highly skilled UK IT team range from systems integration architecture, design, security, application and API delivery including platform tooling and support. We deliver flexible and scalable technology that is secure to enable our customers, colleagues and communities to thrive.
Why work with us?
The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with an opportunity for flexible working, along with 23 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy and working parent supports. Your wellbeing is important to us; we have an employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches available. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and improve your career!

Key Competencies

1. Customer Focused – Self
2. Agile – Self
3. Accountable – Self
4. Manage Risk – Self

Where Agency assistance is required Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.

We’re on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email. Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.

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