Automation Assurance Specialist - Consultant - Digital Excellence

Capgemini Invent; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy in Newcastle upon Tyne is looking for an Automation Assurance Specialist to enhance the reliability and quality of technical solutions for clients. The role involves executing comprehensive testing across various disciplines and requires experience in core testing methodologies and frameworks. You will work collaboratively within teams, continually improving processes and mentoring colleagues while engaging in a diverse range of projects. This position is ideal for someone with a proactive approach to quality assurance in technology.

Benefits

Culture of learning and development

Monthly team events

Training in leading technologies

Flexibility in working arrangements

Qualifications

• Have a certified ISTQB background; ISTQB Foundation at a minimum.
• Experience with core testing techniques: Exploratory, Integration, Manual, Functional.
• Experience setting up test frameworks in Java or JavaScript.
• Experience writing automated tests.

Responsibilities

• Ensure reliability and quality of technical solutions delivered to clients.
• Execute comprehensive testing across various areas.
• Enhance team processes, practices, tools, and techniques.

Skills

Exploratory testing

Integration testing

Manual testing

Functional testing

Agile methodology

GitHub

Docker

Education

ISTQB Foundation certification

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cucumber

REST

Job description

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting‑edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow in an environment informed and validated by science and data, superpowered by creativity and design, all underpinned by purposeful technology.

Your role

Our Automation Assurance Specialists play a critical role in ensuring the reliability and quality of technical solutions delivered to our clients. Their work provides confidence that implementations meet expectations and adhere to specifications. Responsibilities include executing comprehensive testing across areas such as Accessibility, Performance, Security, and Functional validation. We value continuous improvement, so the role requires strong experience in designing and maintaining clean, robust automation test suites and integrating them into a continuous integration pipeline.

They will be able to work on a vast variety of projects and get exposure to a variety of technologies such as (but not exhaustively) NodeJS, Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot framework, RESTful microservices, NoSQL databases. Our Automation Assurance Specialists sit within Digital Excellence, part of the Business Technology practice at Capgemini Invent, which leads digital transformation projects across Capgemini. We are an enthusiastic and dynamic community that values innovation, professional development, and the ability to make a real difference for our clients. We work in diverse multi‑disciplinary teams, hand‑in‑glove with our clients.

In this role you will play a key role in:

• You'll undertake cross‑functional engineering projects, working in small teams with other engineers in different knowledge spheres, building supportable, sustainable, and reliable services
• Be part of a community of engineers within Capgemini Invent. You will be able to work together as a community and help each other to deliver and develop as professionals. We work on large‑scale, technically challenging projects
• Take personal responsibility for assuring confidence in the technical delivery – collaborating with other engineers and the design team
• Continually improve our teams' processes, practices, tools, and techniques
• Share your knowledge and experience with colleagues as you coach them and mentor them, helping the team to grow their skills, as well as developing your own skills by experimenting with and learning new technologies
• Encourage innovation, inclusion, teamwork, self‑organisation, and diversity
• Work with clients and internal teams to develop new opportunities and open‑source projects and initiatives

As part of your role, you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following:

• Business Development – contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events
• Internal Contribution – campaign development, internal think‑tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development
• Learning & Development – training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications, etc.

Your profile

To be a part of our team, you will have a mixture of the following experience.

Required:

• Have a certified ISTQB background; ISTQB Foundation at a minimum. Equivalent qualifications or experience may be considered.
• Experience with these core testing techniques: Exploratory, Integration, Manual, Functional
• Experience setting up and contributing to test frameworks in Java or JavaScript
• Experience writing a variety of backend and frontend automated tests using Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber, REST, etc.
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Experience using online version control tools – GitHub, GitLab, etc.
• Experience with self‑managing and being able to self‑identify areas that need work

Desirable:

• Experience with a wider range of testing techniques (Accessibility, Performance, Security, etc.)
• Experience with applying structured evaluation methods (AI evals) to validate outputs in real‑world scenarios
• Experience using Docker to aid testing
• Experience using Maven to run your automated tests
• Experience with CI/CD (GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins)
• Familiarity with web standards, accessibility, and test automation best practices
• Knowledge of the GOV.UK design system

What you'll love about working here?

We are delighted to have received the “Glassdoor Best Places to work in the UK” accolade for 4 consecutive years. To see what it's like to work at Capgemini Invent, visit our Glassdoor page. Capgemini Invent offers Consultants a culture of learning, ownership, and focus on value.

• You'll gain exposure to high‑profile transformations and gain hands‑on exposure to leading technologies
• Our consultants are formally trained by industry experts in consulting and client delivery. Consultants have access to a vast array of different training and certifications in a variety of areas: Cybersecurity (CISSP, CISM), cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), and Agile delivery (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Scaled Agile Framework). Capgemini Invent offers you the flexibility to develop various areas of knowledge in technical domains aligned both to your interests and our client's outcomes
• Les Fontaines: Capgemini Invent has a unique training environment just outside of Paris, where we can immerse ourselves in thought‑leadership, share knowledge and build capabilities that will help us and our clients to succeed
• We hold monthly showcases of our digital transformation initiatives, sharing knowledge and showing off how the power of technology is impacting our clients
• There are monthly team drinks, and it's a chance to connect face‑to‑face with the wider team over a few drinks in the city. Team away days are always a chance to connect with the team, have fun and learn something new

Need to know

At Capgemini we don't just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion Campaign, we build environments where you can bring your whole self to work.

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work‑life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day‑to‑day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Employee well‑being is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce as a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support well‑being we have trained Mental Health Champions across each of our business areas. We have also invested in well‑being apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

We are a Disability Confident Employer

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government's Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role

Please opt in during the application process.

CSR

We're also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we're working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone's access to a digital world. It's something we're really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world's most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you'll join a team that does the right thing.

Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.

We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent on grade and on company and personal performance.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 350,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55‑year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end‑to‑end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market‑leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.