Automation Engineer Job in Bexhill-on-Sea

We’re a digital insurance provider with ambitious plans to become The Best and Biggest in the UK market. Over the past few years, we've made significant investments in our data and tech capabilities, particularly within our CIO function. Our CIO team is at the forefront of driving innovation and ensuring our technology infrastructure supports our ambitious goals. We’ve nurtured our 4Cs culture, fostering collaboration, creativity, and continuous improvement.

We provide insurance to nearly four million customers, but we know there’s even bigger opportunity out there. Our CIO team plays a crucial role in this journey, working on cutting-edge projects that enhance our digital presence and improve customer engagement.

Job Details

You will leverage AI tools to accelerate test automation while maintaining high standards of quality and reliability. You will critically assess AI-generated outputs, contribute to the testing and continuous improvement of AI-enabled solutions, and apply AI in a secure, responsible and effective way.

• Use AI tools to support the development and maintenance of test automation and test cases, helping to improve productivity, quality and delivery outcomes.
• Create clear prompts to achieve useful results from AI tools and review AI-generated outputs to confirm they are accurate, relevant and fit for purpose before use.
• Apply AI in accordance with organisational standards for security, privacy, and responsible usage, including costs.
• Support the testing of AI-enabled solutions and actively develop knowledge of emerging AI testing techniques and tools.

You will be working as an individual collaborator on one of many sprint teams alongside colleagues that cross multiple disciplines. You will be actively taking part in sprint ceremonies; sharing updates and blockers in daily standups, estimating and committing in sprint planning or helping your team move forward in their behaviours by providing input in sprint retrospectives.

You will ensure user stories are captured in accordance with your teams’ definition of ready, because you know how important that is to the quality of a delivered feature.

Skills we would love you to have:

• Apply a curious mindset to understand systems, customer needs and technical challenges, proactively exploring new approaches and technologies that improve testing efficiency, quality and delivery outcomes.
• Comfortable collaborating on an Agile sprint team in at least one of its forms: Scrum, Kanban, Safe.
• Confident and vocal in sprint ceremonies like stand-ups, planning, retrospectives, 3-amigos and backlog elaboration.
• Familiar with contributing to backlog management in Jira or Octane, collaborating with colleagues to define work items, and recording your own activity in tasks.
• Familiar with test case management in tools such as Octane or X-Ray, ensuring your test scenarios and test results are traceable to work items for features.
• Confidently collaborate in writing acceptance criteria using declarative gherkin to capture business rules that you can then run as automated tests with Cucumber.
• Strong coding skills that you can demonstrate in implementing automated tests in one or more of Java, JavaScript, Typescript, C#.
• Comfortable with Source control using GitHub to collaborate with others and share your code.
• Skilled with user interface automation with Selenium & Selenium Grid, Playwright or Cypress.
• Able to implement tests against API either in code or via tools such as SoapUI, Postman.

What we offer:

• Attractive salary based on experience (pay reviews also completed each year).
• Flexible Working – We champion a flexible and hybrid working approach.
• Competitive Bonus Scheme - All colleagues are eligible for our annual 4Cs performance bonus.
• Physical Wellbeing – We fund our colleagues to claim against everyday health care through our healthcare cash plan.
• Financial Wellbeing – Life assurance cover and income protection at no extra cost, pension contribution match up to 10%.
• Mental Wellbeing Programme - A range of support to help you keep yourself well.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell one of your contracted weeks.

Our 4Cs principles are simple: we believe by creating the right culture for our colleagues and giving them the right tools to do their job, we’ll deliver good outcomes for every customer, helping us to grow the company profitably and sustainably.

Hastings Group is an equal opportunities employer which means we treat people fairly. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, we encourage you to be open with us. Our recruitment team is here to provide the support you need to ensure a fair and accessible experience for all.