Principal Automation Engineer

B&ce Group; Crawley; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading not-for-profit organization seeks a Principal Automation Engineer to enhance their quality assurance processes. This role involves building automated testing solutions, mentoring QA engineers, and integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines. The ideal candidate will have extensive automation experience, particularly with Playwright, and a strong background in software development.

Benefits

Generous pension contributions up to 14%

Real living wage

Employee healthcare

Learning & development opportunities

Onsite gym

Subsidised restaurant

Qualifications

• Experience in writing and implementing Test Strategies.
• Extensive automation experience with Playwright and migrating from Selenium.
• Experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical best practices for the QA team.
• Build and maintain robust automated testing solutions.
• Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies.

Skills

Automation

C#

SQL

React

Performance Testing

API Testing

CI/CD Integration

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Postman

Azure JMeter

Browserstack

Job description

Job Details: Principal Automation Engineer

Full details of the job.

Vacancy Name: Principal Automation Engineer

Vacancy No: VN1695

Employment Type: Full-Time

Primary Work Location: People's Partnership - Manhattan Building, Crawley

Description

About People’s Partnership:
At the heart of our not-for-profit organisation is a commitment to make the future-saving experience simple for our members. We champion fairness and simplicity, not profit-chasing. We are a diverse employer with a flexible, hybrid working approach, ensuring everyone has the opportunity to come to work and be the best version of themselves.

What you'll be doing:

• Drive technical best practices, standards, and strategies for the quality assurance team as an experienced Principal Automation Engineer with a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) background.
• Build and maintain robust automated testing solutions, including system, regression, integration, and performance testing.
• Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies to ensure high software quality.
• Collaborate with engineers to integrate automated testing into the development process.
• Implement and maintain automated testing frameworks and tools.
• Ensure load testing approaches to verify reliability and performance of applications.
• Support PEN testing to identify security vulnerabilities.
• Work with third-party vendors and partners to ensure standards and seamless integration.
• Provide vision and mentorship for QA engineers.
• Support CI/CD processes and promote skill development within the team.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience in writing and implementing Test Strategies.
• Extensive automation experience with Playwright and migrating from Selenium.
• Experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Performance testing experience, ideally with Azure JMeter.
• API testing experience using Postman.
• Knowledge of cross-browser and device testing with Browserstack.
• Experience with Azure cloud technologies such as functions, service bus, and ADF.
• Proficiency in C#, SQL, NUnit, and React.

What you can expect from us:

• Generous pension contributions up to 14%.
• Real living wage.
• Income protection, critical illness cover, and death in service insurance.
• Employee healthcare, parental and adoption leave.
• Learning & development opportunities, study support.
• Travel season ticket loans, onsite gym, subsidised restaurant.
• Volunteering days, charity payroll giving, Ride-to-Work scheme.

Learn more about our employee support on our website.

Disability Statement

We are an equal opportunities employer committed to fair treatment and accessibility. Please inform us if you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process.

Perks

We value our people and offer benefits including an award-winning pension, healthcare, onsite gym, and subsidised restaurant. Our training programmes support your career development.