Job Overview
We’re a digital insurance provider with ambitious plans to become The Best and Biggest in the UK market. Our CIO team leads innovation, ensuring technology infrastructure supports our goals. We value a culture built on collaboration, creativity, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
* Provide automation capabilities that support Scrum Teams to deliver on an Automation-Only approach, reducing the percentage of tests that cannot be automated by designing and implementing extensions or adjustments to the Automation Frameworks.
* Identify new opportunities to enhance or extend our test automation capabilities with new or updated tooling, supporting evaluation, decision‑making, implementation and maintenance of these tools.
* Manage the ongoing maintenance of the tooling to meet growing demand, increase performance and enable Scrum Teams to test early and often on a continuous basis.
* Provide capabilities to support the provision of timely and accurate Test Automation MI for all Scrum Teams, including quality measures where possible to support continuous improvement.
* Define, implement and maintain test automation best practices and drive proactive collaboration and engagement within Scrum Teams and the wider QA community through the Centre of Excellence, regular Brown Bag sessions and other means of engagement.
* Mentor direct reports, junior staff and new joiners to achieve necessary competencies for progression.
Qualifications
* Proficient practical experience in a Testing Automation role.
* Extensive experience working in an agile environment.
* Transformational leadership skills – able to influence decision‑making and implement new tools, processes and procedures in support of the company’s vision.
* Good mentoring skills to support direct reports in their development.
* Knowledge of at least one agile methodology (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).
* Familiarity with backlog and test case management in a system of record such as Jira or Octane.
* Excellent knowledge of declarative Gherkin to capture business rules and run as automated tests with Cucumber.
* Strong coding skills to implement automated tests in Java, JavaScript, Typescript or C#.
* Comfortable with source control using GitHub.
* Skilled in user interface automation with Selenium and Selenium Grid, Playwright or Cypress.
* Experience implementing tests against APIs using code or tools such as SoapUI or Postman.
* Good understanding of continuous integration platforms such as AzureDevOps or Jenkins (or equivalent).
Benefits
* Competitive salary and £5k car allowance.
* Flexible hybrid working – discuss details with recruiter.
* Competitive bonus scheme – all colleagues eligible for annual 4Cs performance bonus.
* Physical wellbeing via private medical insurance and Islands’ available for specialist care.
* Financial wellbeing: life assurance cover equivalent to 4x salary, income protection at no extra cost, matched pension contributions up to 10%, discounts, cashback, free independent mortgage advice and financial wellbeing support.
* Mental wellbeing programme: thrive mental health app, colleague assistance programme (24/7), in‑house mental health first aiders, support groups and a dedicated support team.
* 27 days annual leave + bank holidays, with option to buy or sell a week.
* Health care cash back plans, dental plans, discounted health assessments, cycle‑to‑work and tech schemes, discounted and free onsite facilities, social events throughout the year.
Equal Opportunities Statement
Hastings Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status. We employ a thorough referencing process, which includes credit and criminal record checks. We encourage applicants who require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to let us know.
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