Test Automation Engineer

Admiral Money are looking for a Test Automation Engineer to join their growing Specialist Mortgages team!

About Admiral Money

Admiral Money is an exciting, new division of Admiral Group. We have the freedom and innovation of a small start up with the security of a large parent company, Admiral.

Launching unsecured personal loans in June 2017, we have gone from strength to strength with two other product lines launched in more recent years - motor finance & second charge mortgages.We're looking for people who are keen to learn, excited about getting stuck in and are ready for a challenge to help us to achieve our aim of creating a special lending business for our customers.

The Role

We're looking for a Test Automation Engineer to join our Specialist Mortgages team. In this role, you'll design, develop, and maintain automated test suites using Playwright, and contribute to API test coverage to ensure the reliability and performance of our services.

You'll also carry out manual exploratory testing to uncover edge cases and support rapid feedback during development. Working closely with developers, testers, and business analysts, you'll help integrate tests into our CI/CD pipelines and champion quality throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automated UI test suites using Playwright
• Create and execute API tests to validate backend services and integrations
• Conduct manual exploratory testing to identify defects and usability issues
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and define test strategies
• Contribute to sprint goals by actively progressing work items
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for reliable deployments
• Monitor and maintain test execution, troubleshoot failures, and improve stability
• Support test data management and environment configuration
• Document test approaches, cases, and results clearly
• Continuously improve test coverage, effectiveness, and efficiency

Key Skills and Experience

• Experience with Playwright, TypeScript, JavaScript, and JSON for automated testing
• Strong background in API testing, including data validation and backend logic
• Ability to analyse complex requirements and determine effective test coverage
• Skilled in building maintainable and scalable automated test frameworks
• Comfortable debugging and troubleshooting in CI/CD environments
• Clear communication skills, with the ability to explain testing approaches to technical and non-technical audiences

Desirable Experience

• Background in financial services
• Familiarity with tools such as Xray, Postman, AWS, BrowserStack, Jira, and Confluence
• Experience with cross-browser/device and accessibility testing
• Collaboration with third-party development teams
• Exposure to testing or automating low-code platforms and understanding related challenges

Admiral: Where You Can

We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We're committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service.

Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.

We're proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We're fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.

Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here .