Financial Services Automation Tester Inside IR35

TN United Kingdom; Redcar; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Automation Tester with a strong background in Financial Services. This exciting role involves automating customer environments and building provisioning pipelines, requiring expertise in Puppet, Ansible, and Python. The position is hybrid, allowing for a blend of remote work and on-site collaboration in Sheffield, making it ideal for those who thrive in dynamic environments. If you have a passion for coding and a knack for Agile methodologies, this opportunity offers a chance to contribute to significant projects while working within a collaborative team. Join a forward-thinking company and make a meaningful impact!

Qualifications

• Strong coding skills in Puppet, Ansible, and Python are essential.
• Experience in finance with strong change management practices is required.

Responsibilities

• Automate customer environments and architect provisioning pipelines.
• Work in a hybrid role, with part-time on-site collaboration.

Skills

Puppet

Ansible

Python

Cucumber

Gherkin

Git/GitHub

Agile methodologies

Change management

Soft skills

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Virtual Box

SPLUNK

Visual Studio

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Client:

LA International

Location:

Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

74044543c273

Job Views:

3

Posted:

24.04.2025

Expiry Date:

08.06.2025

Job Description:

An Automation Tester with Financial Services experience is required for an initial 8 month contract. This is a hybrid role with 3 days per week on site in Sheffield and is inside IR35, so will require working via an FCSA accredited umbrella company.

Essential Skills and Experience:

1. Very strong coding skills in Puppet, Ansible, and Python, as well as exposure to Cucumber, Gherkin, Git/GitHub, and other pipelines used for testing purposes.
2. Good understanding of traditional infrastructure.
3. Automate a new customer environment using well-defined existing frameworks.
4. Quick learner to understand the existing environment.
5. Architect and build a provisioning pipeline to support the new initiative.
6. Creation of management dashboards and integration to existing portal tools.
7. Adhere to change management processes - Change management automation.
8. Sufficiently comment your code during creation for future supportability.
9. Understand performance implications for your code and create performant code.
10. Work as part of a team and implement enhancements from others.
11. Ability to work within the Agile frame using Jira.
12. Experience working in a finance background with strong change management practices.

Beneficial Additional Skills:

1. Exposure to Ruby, Vagrant, Virtual Box, Visual Studio, SPLUNK, Powershell, and deconstructing external APIs to present an internal customer API.
2. Understand 'bigger pictures' and code towards a longer-term architecture.
3. Experience in working in a large enterprise environment with thousands of end-points.
4. Create and maintain documentation of the patching architecture.
5. Update Confluence and Jira tickets to reflect any changes or updates.
6. Work within a release schedule, adhering to strict change management rules.
7. Possess the 'soft skills' to work in a larger team environment and contribute in team meetings/huddles.