QA Automation Engineer in Southampton

Who are Benifex? We are a fast-moving technology company, and one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions in the world. We believe that everyone deserves an exceptional experience at work, every day, and build workplace technology that makes this happen. Benifex’s mission is to build remarkable experiences that employees love. Today Benifex supports more than five million employees in over 3,000 organisations across more than 100 countries. To help us on our quest to be the best, we need brilliant people on board and that’s where you come in.

Why should you apply?

• Challenge: We are currently implementing a shift-left quality strategy and this is a key hire in terms of bringing other teams along on that journey.
• Impact: You will be driving a quality transformation in Engineering and collaborating with other teams to deliver.
• Mission: A key pillar of our global growth plan is automation and this role is a key part of delivering that pillar moving forward.

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship and require people to be based in the UK or Ireland for this position.

Great benefits:

• £40,000-50,000
• Flexible work – choose a working setup that works for you, our only ask is to see you once a month in the office and you must be based in the UK or Ireland.
• Full access to our comprehensive benefits package, including discounts from hundreds of high street brands, salary sacrifice schemes across Finance, Health, Tech, and more.
• 25 days holiday plus your local bank holidays.
• Your birthday off.
• Two half day wellbeing days.
• Healthcare cash plan to cover the costs of day-to-day healthcare.
• Employee Assistance Plan 24/7 365 support.
• Income Protection (75%) and life assurance (4x salary).
• Referral bonuses.
• Enhanced parental leave package - 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
• Work from Anywhere policy for 90 days.
• Buy and Sell scheme for holidays.
• £50 monthly allowance to spend on whatever takes your fancy, your very own Benifex card will be topped up at the start of each month!

Role Overview:

The QA Automation Engineer, day to day, will be working closely with the other Engineers in the squad ensuring the product is evolving to meet the overall roadmap and strategy, as well as working closely with the QA Chapter to build out our automation test frameworks and best practices. You will help evangelise test automation within the squads, be hands on with test automation initiatives and play a crucial role in supporting our agile software development lifecycle. You will also be championing our shift-left strategy within the team. Collaborating with the QA Chapter, you will design and create a suite of automation scripts, document test cases, conducting functional and non-functional testing across both performance and scalability that comes with supporting millions of users and is growing globally.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for championing automated testing.
• Define and run exploratory and automated test cases.
• Hands-on collaboration with the squad Engineers to refine, design and deliver new Product features.
• Identify new areas of automation testing to improve quality.
• Proactively improve processes with a shift-left on quality mindset and approach.
• Manage quality gates releases in the squad.
• Contribute to the wider QA strategy, architecture, and tooling across all products to ensure consistency.

What are we looking for?

• Passionate about your craft, and excited to learn and adopt new technology.
• Use of tools and frameworks - Cypress or Selenium, Playwright, Junit, Postman, Saucelabs.
• Thrive working as part of a close-knit team, making decisions together to deliver the most valuable experience to our customers.
• Experience working within a fast-paced agile environment.
• Experience with shift-left strategy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Enjoy working with remote colleagues.
• Good understanding of testing and the testing pyramid framework.
• Understanding of manual and automation testing.
• Knowledge of programming languages ideally Java, Golang, JavaScript.
• Experience using Jira, Confluence, and other agile tooling.

Bonus points for:

• Experience of testing in a cloud infrastructure.
• Load Testing with JMeter / Gatling.
• Kubernetes / Docker.
• MongoDB.
• TypeScript.
• SwiftUI.
• React Native.
• Open-source collaboration.

Even if you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply! We are looking for talented and passionate individuals who are eager to learn and grow. We also offer a variety of other roles, so please check out our careers page to see if there is something else that might be a good fit for you.

Our interview process:

• Initial informal call with the Talent team.
• Online tests in numeracy and logical reasoning.
• Interview with the hiring manager and a member of the team.
• Final interview with the Director.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected. We believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to our success, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are a proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme. If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during the recruitment process, please let us know with your application.