QA Lead & Automation Engineer

Job Description:
Job Title QA LeadAutomation Engineer
Location Birmingham
Corporate Title Assistant Vice President
An exciting opportunity for a driven Test Automation Engineer, to define and impact the strategic test automation approach across a cutting-edge, award-winning department in the Bank's TDI division.
As the QA LeadAutomation Engineer for Archiving Technology, working with Test Engineers and Product colleagues, you will play a key role in ensuring a thorough and consistent approach to Test Automation across our domain.
You will lead the development and maintenance of Test Automation frameworks and scripts across Archiving Technology for both Functional and Non-Functional testing activities, analysing results and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
What we'll offer you
Hybrid Working
We understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a Hybrid Working Model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them.
You can expect:

• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide-ranging CSR programme + 2 days' volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Standardisation of Test Automation Framework across the Arch Tech including coding guidelines
• Standard automation test approach to test the different layers of the Product i.e. UI, API, Database, etc.
• Continuous Improvement & Maintenance of the Test Automation Framework
• Automated Test Automation Dashboards for Archiving Tech
• Standardising the definition of NFR & related performance Testing approach
• Adherence to Bank's Performance monitoring standards

Your skills and experience

• Experience of defining & implementing Test Automation strategies in large IT organisations, ideally working in an Agile framework operating a CI/CD DevOps approach
• Has a thorough understanding of TDD and BDD techniques including Gerkin, Cucumber syntax
• Demonstrable experience of defining Non-Functional Requirements and developing performance testing automation frameworks
• Automated design patterns - Page Object Model; Factory Design Pattern, FaçadePattern, Singleton Pattern
• Significant experience of following tools: - Selenium & Serenity Automation framework; TestNG; Junit; LoadRunner/Performance Centre; JMeter; Integrating test automation with Jenkins & Team City
• Good working knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, Sharepoint online, O365, ServiceNow

How we'll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
• We value diversity and as an equal opportunity's employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g., screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards.

About us and our teams
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We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.
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