Admiral Money are recruiting a Test Automation Engineer to join our growing delivery team.
About us
Admiral Money is the dynamic lending arm of Admiral Group, offering personal loans, motor finance, and homeowner loans since. We’re building something special for our customers and are looking for curious, driven individuals ready to learn, take on challenges, and make an impact.
We’re proud to be a certified Great Place to Work for over years, with recognition for Women and Wellbeing. Our inclusive culture empowers everyone to Be You.
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About the Role
We are looking for a Test Automation Engineer to join one of our delivery teams and contribute to the quality of our applications through effective automated and exploratory testing.
In this role, you will be responsible for building, maintaining, and executing automated tests within a product or team area. You will work independently on automation tasks while collaborating closely with developers, product owners, and analysts to ensure testing is well integrated into the delivery process.
This role suits someone experienced in test automation within a commercial environment and comfortable taking ownership of their work without the expectation of defining strategy or leading others.
Key Responsibilities
1. Design, develop, and maintain automated UI test suites using Cypress and Selenium
2. Contribute to the development and maintenance of Python‑based automation frameworks
3. Create and execute API automation tests to validate backend services and integrations
4. Carry out manual and exploratory testing to support effective coverage and investigate complex scenarios
5. Work closely with developers, product owners, and analysts to understand requirements and agree appropriate test approaches
6. Participate fully in Agile ceremonies, including refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
7. Integrate and maintain automated tests within existing CI/CD pipelines
8. Monitor test execution, investigate failures, and contribute to improving test reliability and maintainability
9. Support test data management and test environment configuration where required
10. Ensure test artefacts and documentation are accurate, clear, and kept up to date
11. Continuously improve test coverage and automation effectiveness within the team
Essential Skills & Experience
12. Commercial experience working as a Test Automation Engineer within an Agile delivery team
13. Strong hands‑on experience with Cypress and/or Selenium
14. Experience using Python to support automated testing and frameworks
15. Solid experience with API testing and automation
16. Ability to analyse functional and technical requirements to determine appropriate test coverage
17. Experience maintaining and extending existing automation suites
18. Confidence working independently on automation tasks with minimal supervision
19. Experience troubleshooting automated tests, particularly within CI/CD pipelines
20. Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain testing outcomes clearly to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
21. A pragmatic, quality‑focused mindset with a good understanding of when automation adds value
Desirable Experience
22. Experience working in financial services, fintech, or other regulated environments
23. Familiarity with tools such as Postman, Xray, Jira, Confluence, AWS, and BrowserStack
24. Experience with BDD approaches (, Gherkin)
25. Cross‑browser and cross‑device testing experience
26. Experience working with third‑party or offshore development teams
27. Exposure to test automation in complex or legacy systems
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 £, of free shares each year after one year of service.
Everyone receives days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 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 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 .
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