Lead Test Automation Engineer - Hybrid Role

Adelphi Group; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Credera is seeking engineers to join its growing Delivery Centre in the North-East, with a central Newcastle hub and a 60% in-office hybrid policy. You will collaborate with architects and client stakeholders to build test automation for data products and services, driving high-quality software releases across client projects.

You will develop automated end-to-end and integration tests using Cypress, Selenium, and other frameworks, work with CI/CD tooling, and coordinate testing across internal

Qualifications

• Experience in automated end-to-end and integration testing in JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or C#.
• Experience using Jira and Confluence, including integration of test tools with Jira.
• Experience in multi-supplier environments and collaborating with third-party testing teams.
• Ability to influence testing quality before service transition.
• UI tests for web or mobile apps.
• Experience building test automation frameworks with Cypress, Selenium, WebDriverIO.
• API testing with Postman and SOAPUI.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD toolchains.
• Awareness of consumer-driven contract testing.
• Experience in agile engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of developing our test automation practices, acting as SME for tests and test infrastructure.
• Write reusable automated tests to evolve with the product and enable CI/CD.
• Help product teams build automated processes for high-quality UX, security and reliability.
• Communicate test strategy effectively within the team.
• Design prototypes to validate and improve system architecture and test coverage.
• Improve automated test practices within the team.
• Use Jira/Confluence to manage testing activity, defects, reporting and documentation.
• Integrate test tooling with Jira for traceability.
• Coordinate testing with client, internal and third-party supplier teams.

Skills

End-to-end testing

Integration testing

Jira and Confluence

CI/CD tooling

UI testing

API testing

Test frameworks: Cypress

Test frameworks: Selenium

Tools

Postman

SOAPUI

Git

Job description

Credera is seeking engineers to join its growing Delivery Centre in the North-East, with a central Newcastle hub and a 60% in-office hybrid policy. You will collaborate with architects and client stakeholders to build test automation for data products and services, driving high-quality software releases across client projects.

You will develop automated end-to-end and integration tests using Cypress, Selenium, and other frameworks, work with CI/CD tooling, and coordinate testing across internal