Junior Test Automation Engineer

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’re proud of the journey we’re on as a company and know that our continued success will rely on the contribution of our talented colleagues. The CIO team plays a crucial role in this journey, working on cutting-edge projects that enhance our digital presence and improve customer engagement.

We provide insurance to nearly four million customers, but we know there’s even bigger opportunity out there. If you are excited about joining us and think you have some of what we are looking for, even if you’re not 100% sure, we would love to hear from you. Our CIO team is always looking for passionate individuals who are eager to make a difference and contribute to our success.

• As a Junior Test Automation Engineer, you will be part of the Technology Engineering team within CIO, supporting the definition, implementation, execution, maintenance and traceability of adequate test scenarios to ensure timely, high quality, defect free delivery of outcomes to the production environment.
• 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.
• Ensuring work items 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.

This is a junior role, so if you have recently graduated or have little experience but are keen to learn and progress, we would love to hear from you.

• Coding skills in one or more of Java, JavaScript, Typescript, C#, Python.
• Understanding of source control using GitHub to collaborate with others and share code.
• Ability to manipulate, create and search for data across databases using SQL.

• Awareness or use of user interface automation with Selenium & Selenium Grid, Playwright or Cypress.
• Understanding of APIs and experience with tools such as Postman to interact with / test the APIs.
• Understanding of continuous integration platforms such as AzureDevOps, Jenkins or equivalent, to run automated tests and / or deploy changes to test environments.

Join us and you’ll find a different way of doing things. We call it the 4Cs. We focus on getting it right for our colleagues, customers, company, and community. As one of our colleagues, you’ll be helping to drive our growth, so in return, we’ll give you all the support, training and development you need. Not to mention plenty of recognition and rewards, and the scope to voice your ideas and put them into practice.

• Salary – 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, income protection, pension contribution match up to 10%, and an award-winning package including discounts and cashback.
• Mental Wellbeing Programme - A range of support to help you keep yourself well.
• There’s more! – 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, access to private healthcare, dental plans, discounted health assessments, cycle to work and tech schemes, social events throughout the year and much more.

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.

At Hastings Direct, we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, we encourage you to be open with us.