Automation Tester

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Automation Tester (SDET)

Join a team wherePurposeis at the heart of everything we doAmbitiondrives us to be the best we can be Respectshapes our culture and Trustbuilds our foundation.

Were not just hiring were inviting you tobuild the futurewith us. If youre curious driven and ready to leave your mark this is your invitation to make your next move.

Contract: FTC 6 Months

Working hours: 35 hours per week is full time.

Salary: up to 63000

Location: London

Reporting to: QA Test Manager

By joining our team youll enjoy the best of both worlds hybrid working and the collaboration of a great office environment. Our permanent hybrid policy sees us all working at least four days across a fortnight in the office. As well as extensive opportunities for personal and career development.

About Us:

The Financial Ombudsman Service is an independent not-for-profit organisation that plays a vital role in UK financial services. Every day we help resolve disputes between consumers or small businesses and their financial service providers.

The IT Applications and Development team plays an important role in developing and supporting our applications enabling us to deliver services to customers and colleagues.

As an Automation Tester youll bring specialist automation expertise to help us deliver reliable high-quality services for our customers and colleagues. Youll lead the development of automation frameworks and testing approaches balancing hands-on technical delivery with technical leadership. Working across multiple applications and teams youll drive automation maturity promote innovation and help embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle. Through collaboration coaching and continuous improvement youll play a key role in shaping our automation capability and supporting our wider digital strategy.

What Youll Do:

Leading our test automation strategy frameworks and engineering practices to improve the quality reliability and efficiency of application delivery.

Designing building and enhancing scalable automation solutions embedding automated testing across the development lifecycle and CI/CD pipelines.

Driving continuous improvement by increasing automation coverage championing AI-enabled testing capabilities and promoting best practice across teams.

Working collaboratively with developers testers business analysts and product owners to deliver high-quality customer-focused solutions.

Providing technical leadership coaching and guidance to help grow automation capability and influence quality outcomes across the organisation.

Monitoring and improving automation effectiveness through data-led insights innovation and a focus on reducing manual effort while accelerating delivery.

To be considered for this role youll need to show us that youve got the skills and capabilities. Youll have to meet the following minimum criteria:

Minimum Criteria

• Extensive experience designing developing and maintaining test automation frameworks using tools such as Selenium or equivalent with a strong focus on scalability maintainability and quality engineering best practices.

• A strong Proven track record in automation testing within fast-paced Agile delivery environments working across diverse technologies applications and complex business domains.

• Strong expertise in defining automation strategies test frameworks and automation roadmaps driving increased test coverage reduced manual effort and measurable quality improvements.

• Strong understanding of automation metrics reporting and ROI measurement with evidence of increasing automation coverage improving execution efficiency and reducing regression effort.

• Proven ability to influence stakeholders collaborate across delivery teams and mentor testers/developers on automation best practices and framework adoption.
• Demonstrable experience designing implementing and supporting automated testing solutions within enterprise environments including CI/CD pipelines Azure DevOps test management tools database testing (SQL) and testing across Microsoft technology platforms such as Dynamics SharePoint and cloud-based applications. Experience of AI-enabled testing approaches is desirable.

It would also be nice for you to have

• A bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or related field or substantial relevant work experience in a software development software testing role
• Experience in performance testing with a performance test tool and resolve coding or environmental issues.

Why Youll Love Working With Us:

We are a values led organisation. Our values define our culture influence our decisions and underpin our vision and strategy. They set out how we play our PART through Purpose Ambition Respect and Trust. You can learn more about our values here: Work your way remote hybrid or in-office

We also offer an attractive competitive salary and flexible benefits to suit our people. Heres a list of some of the many benefits and perks you can get for working with us:

• 25 days holiday entitlement with the option to buy extra or sell days
• Generous pension
• Various Family Friendly Policies including enhanced maternity pay carers and dependants leave
• Employer provided benefits such as Private medical insurance virtual GP Critical illness cover Life assurance cover to name a few
• Choice of voluntary benefits including Technology scheme Cycle to work scheme Will-writing service amongst others
• Gym membership discounts and a fully equipped on-site gym open 24/7 in London only

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