Senior Test Automation Specialist

Job Title: Senior Test Automation Specialist

Target Start Date: ASAP

Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available

Salary Range: £65,000 - £75,000

Location: Any Ageas UK Office - Hybrid - once a year

Work Level: 4

Closing Date for applications: Thursday 16th October

Hiring Manager: Harvey Watts

Senior Test Automation Specialist:

The Senior Automation Specialist will be responsible for defining, delivering, and evolving the IT automation strategy. The role will lead the ongoing implementation of automation and ensure alignment with business goals and operational efficiency. The specialist will act as a strategic advisor and hands-on expert, driving automation initiatives across infrastructure, applications, and service delivery. They will provide management and leadership for the Test Automation implementation to enable delivery of the IT services that enable Ageas to achieve its goals within budgets and to schedule.

Main Responsibilities:

• Evaluate, recommend, and introduce automation tools and platforms.
• Define standards and best practices for automation tooling and usage.
• Lead the implementation of automation solutions.
• Oversee the design, development, and deployment of automation scripts, workflows, and pipelines.
• Provide leadership, direction and training to the Automation Test Team.

Skills and experience:

• Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining automated test solutions.
• Experience and knowledge of software architectures & technologies such as Selenium, Java, RestAssured & SonarQube.
• Ability to innovate in the test and test-delivery practices and process domain, forming new effective solutions to problems.
• Significant experience of testing large enterprise business systems, including front office (CRM / policy admin) and back office (reporting / document management / claims) systems.
• Good knowledge of DevOps practices and a solid understanding of pipeline build processes and the role of test automation in pipelines.
• Experience managing the use of test automation to provide end to end testing across deployed enterprise systems, ideally of an automated regression nature.
• Experience managing the use of lower level pipeline/overnight component and system level automation.

To find out more about this role and for information please contact Dan O'Connor or Harvey Watts.

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