Quality Automation Specialist

NatWest Group; Gogar; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking a Quality Automation Specialist to drive automated testing across delivery models. You’ll enable continuous integration, improve defect-free deployment of customer value, and work with feature teams and stakeholders to embed quality across all lifecycle stages. You’ll design automation strategies, develop reusable scripts, and advance testing tooling within an Agile/CI/CD environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in automated testing within Agile/CI/CD environments.
• Ability to design reusable automation scripts and frameworks.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management.
• Commitment to quality and reliable product delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design automated test strategies aligned to business goals.
• Develop and maintain a low-maintenance suite of automated tests, reusable across domains.
• Contribute to evolving predictive testing approaches with automation.
• Collaborate with feature teams and stakeholders to ensure quality across the lifecycle.

Skills

Automated testing

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

Selenium

Jenkins

Git

Selenium WebDriver

Job description

Join us as a Quality Automation Specialist

• 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 evolving 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, ideally from an Agile development or CI/CD environment. You'll be an innovative thinker who can spot opportunities and design solutions, alongside the ability to develop complex automation code.

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

You'll also need:

• Experience in end‑to‑end and automation testing using the latest tools recommended by the enterprise tooling framework
• A background in designing, developing, and implementing automation frameworks in new environments
• Experience of manual testing across customer digital journeys, along with knowledge of system integration, acceptance testing, and load, volume, and stress testing
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to colleagues at management level
• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills