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 provide insurance to nearly four million customers, but we know there’s even bigger opportunity out there. Our CIO team is always looking for passionate individuals who are eager to make a difference and contribute to our success.

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.
• 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 fund our colleagues to be able 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.
• Access to private healthcare, dental plans, discounted health assessments, cycle to work and tech schemes.

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.