Quality Automation Engineer, Java

NatWest Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company is looking for a Quality Automation Engineer, proficient in Java, to enhance automated testing processes. In this role, you will work closely with feature teams to develop quality solutions ensuring defect-free deployments. You will support the design of automated testing strategies, leveraging your skills in REST API testing and CI/CD. Ideal candidates are experienced in Agile methodologies and possess strong problem-solving skills, with exposure to AWS and Kubernetes. This position offers significant professional development opportunities, allowing for growth in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in automated testing within agile development environments.
• Ability to develop complex automation code and collaborative problem-solving skills.
• Experience working in a CI/CD environment and understanding of Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Support the design of automation test strategies aligned with business goals.
• Collaborate on manual and automated testing scope and create automated test scripts.
• Ensure quality and compliance through all phases of the development lifecycle.

Skills

Automated testing

Java

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

REST API testing

BDD frameworks

AWS

Kubernetes

Tools

Maven

Cucumber

Job description

Join us as a Quality Automation Engineer, Java

• In this key role, you’ll be undertaking and enabling automated testing activities in all delivery models
• We’ll look to you to support teams to develop quality solutions and enable continuous integration and assurance of defect free deployment of customer value
• You’ll be working closely with feature teams and a variety of stakeholders, giving you great exposure to professional development opportunities

What you'll do

Joining us in a highly collaborative role, you’ll be contributing to the transformation of testing using quality processes, tools, and methodologies, significantly improving control, accuracy and integrity. You’ll make sure repeatable, constant and consistent quality is built into all phases of the idea to value lifecycle at reduced cost or reduced time to market. It’s a chance to work with colleagues at multiple levels, and with cross-domain, domain, platform and feature teams, to build in quality as an integral part of all activities.

Additionally, you’ll be:

• Supporting the design of automation test strategies, aligned to business or programme goals
• Actioning and evolve more predictive and intelligent testing approaches, based on automation and innovative testing products and solutions
• Collaborating to refine the scope of manual and automated testing required, the creation of automated test scripts, user documentation and artefacts
• Designing and creating a low maintenance suite of stable, re-usable automated tests, which are usable both within the product or domain and across domains and systems in an end-to-end capacity
• Applying testing and delivery standards by understanding the product development lifecycle along with mandatory, regulatory and compliance requirements

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with experience of automated testing, particularly from an Agile development or CI/CD environment. You’ll be an innovative thinker who can identify opportunities and design solutions, coupled with the ability to develop complex automation code.

You’ll have a good understanding of Agile methodologies with experience of working in an Agile team, with the ability to relate everyday work to the strategic vision of the feature.

We’ll also look for you to have:

• Experience in REST based API testing using Java and related tooling, including CI/CD pipelines and Maven
• Experience of behaviour driven development (BDD) frameworks, ideally Cucumber
• Knowledge of hosted cloud environments and diagnosing testing problems in these environments
• Exposure to AWS and Kubernetes
• The ability to communicate complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Experience of Agile and DevOps working as part of a feature team