Senior Test Automation Specialist

Overview

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
Location: Ageas UK Office - Hybrid - once a year
Closing Date for applications: Thursday 30th October

Responsibilities

• Define, deliver, and evolve the IT automation strategy.
• Lead the on-going implementation of automation and ensure alignment with business goals and operational efficiency.
• Act as a strategic advisor and hands-on expert, driving automation initiatives across infrastructure, applications, and service delivery.
• 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 as Senior Test Automation Specialist

• 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 of 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 systems (reporting / document management / claims).
• Good knowledge of DevOps practices, understanding pipeline build processes and the role of test automation in pipelines.
• Experience of managing the use of test automation to provide end to end testing across deployed enterprise systems, ideally automated regression testing.
• Experience managing the use of lower-level pipeline / overnight component and system level automation.

Benefits

• Flexible Working: Smart Working, part-time/job-shares, minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) with option to buy and sell days.
• Health and Wellness: dental insurance, health cash plan, health screening, Will Writing, voluntary critical illness, mental health support, wellbeing activities.
• Wealth: annual bonus schemes, annual salary reviews, competitive pension, employee savings, employee loans.
• Work Support: well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, sports and social club events.
• Family Support: maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks' full pay.
• Other Benefits: partner life assurance and critical illness cover; tech deals on gadgets; car salary exchange, cycle scheme, vehicle breakdown cover; return-to-work programme after maternity leave.

About Ageas: We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work, serving over four million customers. We are inclusive and promote equal opportunity in recruitment. For more information, please see About Us.