About The Role
Are you passionate about making a positive impact on people’s lives? Do you want to be part of a company that is striving to revolutionise access to healthcare in the UK? At Simplyhealth, our health plans provide the opportunity to attend routine dental treatments, visit the optician, have complementary therapies (e.g. physio) and much more by providing financial support to those that really need it.
But we’re not just your average health company; we’re aiming to revolutionise access to healthcare in the UK by offering innovative health and wellbeing solutions that are affordable, accessible, and effective. From preventive care to comprehensive medical support, we aim to empower individuals to take charge of their health, inspiring them to make the most of their wellbeing.
As Lead Test Automation Engineer, you’ll be working with the Test Analysts, Software Developers, Product Owners and Business Analysts in Simplyhealth to assure software solutions based on the business needs. As well as being hands on with the testing side across a number of projects from small to large scale, you’ll also offer the test team technical leadership and mentoring and helping with their training and development needs. The Test Automation Lead will also be responsible for working on the technical roadmap and strategy for automation as well as the delivery of this strategy over time.
You’ll be an advocate for agile development frameworks and will coach Test Automation Engineers to improve their effectiveness and take action to remedy any deficiencies to help create a positive working relationship in the scrum teams in ultimately ensuring the solutions delivered are fit for purpose and delivered on time.
Key responsibilities
1. Help in defining and implementing quality and test processes in-line with the AGILE & SCRUM principles.
2. Contributing to the delivery of strategy, recognising strategic imperatives and the impacts on own area of work.
3. Define the automation strategy and ensure that the automation best practices are followed by all squads
4. Collaborate with the automation team to define the frameworks & tech stacks that will provide the most benefit to Simplyhealth.
5. Contributing to the overall quality of test scripts by performing reviews for other Test Analysts.
6. Ensuring that test scenarios and test automation scripts are prepared in a structured way, prioritised to reflect business or technical priorities, and are approved by appropriate stakeholders.
7. Coach and mentor the Test Automation Engineers and support them in their training and personal development.
8. Working with Software Developers to ensure that defects raised are fixed and re-tested effectively and promptly.
About You
To be considered you must have:
9. ·Proven experience of leading and coaching and mentoring a team of QA automation engineers and/or QA engineer
10. Performing test automation for software applications, delivering high quality solutions on a range of medium to large scale projects.
11. Experience working in an AGILE Environment, ideally with an understanding of the shift left approach
12. Proficient in UI and API Testing
13. Confident in a range of Test Automation frameworks (i.e Selenium, Appium, Playwright and RestAssured
14. Knowledge of Javascript and/or Typescript
Our dream candidate might also have
15. Knowledge of performance and Security testing
16. Automated Mobile Testing
What’s in it for you
Simplyhealth is more than just a workplace - it's a vibrant community of like-minded individuals who are passionate about creating a positive impact. Here's what you can expect when you join our team:
17. Meaningful Work : Every day, you'll have the opportunity to work on something that really matters – improving access to healthcare for everyone in the UK.
18. Innovation and Collaboration : We encourage a culture of innovation and collaboration, where diverse perspectives are valued, and creativity is encouraged. Your ideas will be heard, and you'll have the chance to contribute to ground-breaking solutions.
19. Growth and Development : We believe in investing in our colleagues growth and development. You'll have access to online resources, on-the-job training, and mentorship to enhance your skills and advance your career.
20. Work / Life Balance : Your wellbeing matters to us, we offer flexible working arrangements to ensure you can excel both personally and professionally.
21. Community Engagement : Joining Simplyhealth means being part of a team that actively engages in community initiatives and volunteer work. You can use your 3 annual volunteering days to give back to those who need it most.
As well as a competitive salary, our benefits include a discretionary annual bonus, generous pension, 36 days holiday (with the option to buy and sell a further 5 days), a flexible benefits pot (which you can choose to use against some great benefits such as critical illness, private medical insurance, shopping vouchers, pet insurance and more), a Simplyhealth Cash plan or Dental plan, an employee wellbeing programme and shopping discounts.
We have a head office in Hampshire, but depending on your role, you’ll be able to enjoy our ‘smart working’ approach This means you can flex when and where you spend your time. For many of us this means day to day work can be handled remotely, but there will also be times when we need to come together in the office to collaborate, attend training sessions, induction, briefings and more. You might know it as flexible or hybrid working, for us it’s just another day living our best lives!