Quality Automation Engineer, Java

NatWest Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A major financial services firm is seeking a Quality Automation Engineer to join their team. This role focuses on automated testing across delivery models, ensuring quality is integral to all phases of the project lifecycle. You will design automation test strategies, work in Agile environments, and communicate complex technical concepts effectively. The position is hybrid and offers substantial professional development opportunities, with an emphasis on automation in both functional and cross-domain testing.

Qualifications

• Experience of automated testing in an Agile development environment.
• Ability to develop complex automation code.
• Good understanding of testing standards and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Undertake automated testing activities across delivery models.
• Support teams in developing quality solutions and CI/CD.
• Design and create low maintenance automated tests.

Skills

Automated testing

Agile methodologies

Java

REST API testing

Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Maven

AWS

Kubernetes

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

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date

10/12/2025

Ways of Working

Hybrid