Principal Test Automation Engineer

Job Title:CO-OP - BIRMINGHAM - Principal Test Automation Engineer

About the Job you are considering:

The Senior Test Automation Architect is responsible for defining driving and governing the end-to-end test automation strategy across enterprise programs and portfolios The role focuses on architecting scalable reusable automation solutions enabling DevOps and CICD integration mentoring automation teams and ensuring measurable business value through high quality efficient test automation. This role works closely with Program Test Managers Solution Architects DevOps teams product owners and business stakeholders to align automation initiatives with business outcomes.

Hybrid working:
The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role your needs and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices client sites and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Job Role

• Define and own the enterprisewide test automation strategy aligned with business programme and technology objectives.
• Design and maintain scalable modular and reusable automation frameworks for UI API integration and backend testing.
• Evaluate and recommend automation tools frameworks and technologies based on application architecture and testing needs.
• Establish automation standards guidelines and architectural blueprints across all projects.
• Architect and implement automation frameworks using industryleading tools such as Selenium Playwright Cypress REST Assured and Appium.
• Ensure automation frameworks support crossbrowser crossplatform and crossenvironment testing.
• Enable datadriven keyworddriven and behaviourdriven test automation approaches where appropriate.
• Define reusable libraries utilities reporting structures dashboards and integration patterns.
• Integrate automation suites with CI/CD pipelines including Jenkins GitLab CI and Azure DevOps.
• Drive shiftleft testing and continuous testing practices across delivery teams.
• Ensure seamless automation execution across onpremises cloud and containerised environments.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to optimise test execution speed stability and scalability.
• Define automation coverage strategies across functional regression API integration performance and security testing.
• Drive automation coverage metrics and continually identify opportunities to improve coverage efficiency and ROI.
• Optimise test execution cycles to reduce duration and infrastructure costs through parallel execution and smart test selection.
• Define automation KPIs metrics and reporting models to assess effectiveness and quality.
• Monitor automation stability defect leakage maintenance effort and enforce automation quality gates across releases.
• Provide insights and recommendations to programme leadership to improve quality outcomes.
• Drive adoption of advanced and emerging automation techniques such as AI/MLassisted test generation selfhealing automation modelbased testing and service virtualisation.
• Research pilot and integrate emerging QA tools and technologies into the automation roadmap.
• Mentor and guide automation architects leads and engineers to enhance capability and maturity.
• Review automation designs coding standards and implementation quality.
• Identify skill gaps and recommend targeted training and upskilling plans for automation teams.
• Promote best practices in coding standards version control and framework design.
• Collaborate with Programme Test Managers Solution Architects and Product Owners to align automation roadmaps with business needs.
• Provide automation leadership during project initiation planning and solutiondesign phases.
• Support critical delivery phases and manage automationrelated risks issues and escalations.
• Engage with vendors and partners for tool evaluation procurement and implementation support.

Job Skills

• Strong expertise in designing enterpriselevel automation strategies and frameworks.
• Deep handson experience with leading automation tools such as Selenium Playwright Cypress REST Assured and Appium.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD integration DevOps pipelines and shiftleft testing.
• Indepth understanding of UI API integration and backend automation concepts.
• Ability to define automation standards reusable libraries and scalable framework architectures.
• Proficiency in automation coverage planning optimisation and ROI analysis.
• Experience implementing advanced techniques like AI/MLdriven test automation modelbased testing and selfhealing frameworks.
• Strong leadership skills with capability to mentor guide and upskill automation teams.
• Strong stakeholdermanagement skills to collaborate with architects product owners managers and vendors.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills with the ability to articulate automation architecture and strategy.
• Ability to manage automation risks escalations and dependencies across large programmes.
• Experience supporting multiproject delivery environments with complex testing landscapes.
  
  

We are a Disability Confident Employer:

Capgemini is proud to be aDisability Confident Employer (Level 2)under the UK Governments Disability Confident scheme.As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you):

• Youd be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
  To help support wellbeing we have trained Mental Health Champions across each of our business areas and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
• You will be empowered to explore innovate and progress. You will benefit from Capgeminis learning for life mindset meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons and access to 250000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS Microsoft Harvard Manage Mentor Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You will be joining one of the Worlds Most Ethical Companies as recognised by Ethisphere for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.
  
  

Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing clients businesses while building a more sustainable more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini youll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine whats possible. Its why together we seek out opportunities that will transform the worlds leading businesses and its how youll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day sharing knowledge and always pushing yourself to do better youll build the skills you want. Youll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So it might not always be easy but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years we are a responsible and diverse group of 420000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem leveraging our capabilities across strategy technology design engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of 22.1 billion.
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