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Description
Principal Automation Engineer
About People’s Partnership
At the heart of our not-for-profit organisation is a commitment and a motivation to make the future-saving experience a simple one for our members. We champion fairness and simplicity, not profit-chasing. Imagine a financial adventure where everyone's a winner, fuelled by our exceptional service and brought to life by the fantastic individuals who work for us. We're a diverse employer with a flexible, hybrid working approach, ensuring everyone gets the opportunity to come to work and be the best version of themselves.
What You'll Be Doing
As an experienced and skilled Principal Automation Engineer you have a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) background and will drive technical best practise, standards and strategies for the quality assurance team. You will combine software development expertise with automated testing, focusing on building and maintaining robust automated testing solutions.
You will be responsible for architecting and implementing our automation testing strategies and execution across system, regression, integration, performance testing to ensure the highest standards of software quality using modern approaches across functional and non-functional criteria.
* Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies to ensure the highest standards of software quality.
* Collaborate closely with engineers to integrate automated testing into the development process.
* Drive quality assurance initiatives and continuously improve testing methodologies.
* Implement and maintain automated testing frameworks and tools.
* Ensure we have a clear load testing approach to ensure the reliability and performance of user-facing applications.
* Manage the vision for repeatable test data creation and ensure automation development and execution is part of solution build
* Support PEN testing to identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities.
* Work with third-party vendors to ensure standards are implemented and followed and partners to ensure seamless integration and testing.
* Provide vision for QA engineers.
* Support continuous integration and deployment processes.
* Mentor QAs in software automation, ensuring skill development
What We’re Looking For
* Experience writing and implementing Test Strategies
* Extensive automation experience using Playwright and migrating away Selenium
* Delivery of automation into the CI/CD cycle
* Performance testing experience ideally using Azure JMeter
* Experience of API testing using Postman
* Strong understanding of cross browser and device testing using Browserstack
* Strong understanding and experience of working with Azure cloud technologies like functions, service bus and ADF.
* Good understand and experience of using C#, SQL, NUnit, React
What You Can Expect From Us
* Generous pension contributions with an employer contribution of up to 14%
* Real living wage
* Income protection, critical illness cover & death in service insurance
* Employee healthcare
* Parental and adoption leave
* Learning & development opportunities and study support
* Travel season ticket loans
* Subsidised restaurant in our Crawley office
* Volunteering days and charity payroll giving
* Onsite gym
* Ride-to-Work scheme
* Social clubs and events
You can learn more about how we support our employees on our website
Disability Statement
People's Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to treating all our people (and all who apply for a role at People's Partnership) equally and enabling them to perform at their best and demonstrate what they have to offer. We are a disability committed employer, please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment process (application, selection assessments where relevant, and interview) to enable you to show us the best “you”.
Perks
Our people are our strength so finding ways to value and reward them is important to us. That’s why we offer an award-winning pension – it’s what we’re good at – plus health care cover, an onsite gym, access to a personal trainer; even the odd massage. And if they’re feeling peckish after all that activity, they can always refuel in our subsidised restaurant. Discover more of People's Partnership's employee benefits including our training programme, which is designed to give our people the support they need to develop a fulfilling career.
Salary Range
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
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