Test Automation Engineer in England

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, especially within our CIO function. Our CIO team is at the forefront of driving innovation and ensuring that our technology infrastructure supports our ambitious goals. We nurture our 4Cs culture of collaboration, creativity, and continuous improvement. Our journey has been remarkable, and we aim to provide insurance to nearly four million customers while exploring even larger opportunities. If you are excited about joining us and believe you have what we seek, even if you’re not 100% sure, we would love to hear from you. Passionate individuals who want to make a difference and help us grow are always welcome.

Job Details

• Working as an individual collaborator in your Scrum Teams alongside colleagues that cross multiple disciplines.
• Active participation in sprint ceremonies, such as sharing updates and blockers in daily standups, estimating and committing in sprint planning or helping your teams improve KPIs by providing input in sprint retrospectives.
• Ensuring work items meet the Definition of Ready, to only build work items from a common understanding and also meet the Definition of Done before being marked as complete.
• Actively understand, review and challenge requirements (or lack of) when things look wrong, to ensure the team jointly achieves the best outcomes.
• Definition of Acceptance Criteria for all functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring that both positive and negative (what if) scenarios are being tested, that testing is executed at the right level (eg Unit, API, Behaviour etc) and that test coverage is complete.
• Proactive collaboration within your Scrum Teams and wider QA community on best practices to deliver new work items more frequently without impacting quality.

Skills we would love you to have

• Practical experience working in a testing role using automation.
• Experience working in an agile environment.

Tools & Technologies

• Knowledge of at least one agile methodology (eg Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).
• Familiar with backlog and test case management in a system of record such as Jira or Octane.
• Experience using declarative Gherkin to capture business rules, run as automated tests with Cucumber.
• Strong coding skills to implement automated tests in one or more of Java, JavaScript, Typescript, C#.
• Comfortable with source control using GitHub.
• Skilled in user interface automation with Selenium & Selenium Grid, Playwright or Cypress.
• Ability to implement tests against API either in code or via tools such as SoapUI, Postman.
• Understanding of and user experience with continuous integration platforms such as AzureDevOps or Jenkins (or equivalent).
• Ability to manipulate, create and search for test data across databases using SQL.

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 help our colleagues take a proactive approach in keeping themselves well.
• Financial Wellbeing – We provide 4x your salary with life assurance cover and income protection at no extra cost.
• Mental Wellbeing Programme – We provide a range of support to keep you well.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (with option to buy or sell one of your contracted weeks), private healthcare, dental plans, discounted health assessments, cycle-to-work and tech schemes, discounted and free onsite facilities, social events throughout the year and more.

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.