Senior Test Automation Engineer

Capgemini; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology services firm in the UK is looking for an Automation Test Engineer to join their Quality Engineering and Test Practice. This role involves creating effective test strategies, managing automation frameworks, and collaborating across teams to ensure business goals are met. Ideal candidates will have experience in test automation tools like Selenium and OOP languages such as Java or Python. The company promotes a hybrid working model, ensuring a balanced work-life environment and numerous development opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Access to 250,000 courses for training

Work-life balance initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in creating effective automation test strategies and plans.
• Hands on experience of various test types including Functional, API, web and mobility.
• Ability to manage and maintain versions of test assets in GIT.

Responsibilities

• Ensure alignment with business goals and drive impactful value creation.
• Collaborate with developers, testers, and analysts across the organisation.
• Create and adapt automation frameworks.

Skills

Test automation

OOP language

CI/CD Pipelines

Agile methodologies

Education

ISTQB certification (or willingness to obtain)

Tools

Selenium WebDriver

Jira

Postman

Job description

Internal Job Information

Location: Anywhere in the UK
Global Grade: B2

About the job you're considering

We work closely with clients and partners to take full advantage of the opportunities of technology. We mobilize expert teams that create custom solutions from existing and emerging technology to deliver viable outcomes at speed. We call this 'Value in the making.'
Part of the Capgemini Group, Sogeti makes business value through technology for organizations that need to implement innovation at speed and want a local partner with global scale. With a hands‑on culture and close proximity to its clients, Sogeti is currently looking for a Automation Test Engineer to join our Quality Engineering and Test Practice, ensuring alignment with business goals and driving impactful value creation for our clients.

Hybrid working

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre‑employment checks, including: identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service).

Your role

Essential Skills

• Experience in creating effective automation test strategies and plans.
• Experience in test automation using at least two proprietary or OpenSource tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, or Tricentis Tosca
• Experience creating or adapting automation frameworks
• Familiarity with at least one OOP language (Java, Python, C# etc.)
• Creating test scripts within a BDD environment using Cucumber, SpecFlow or similar
• Ability to manage and maintain versions of test assets in GIT and other repositories
• Experience of working in Agile / DevOps environments
• Hands on experience of various test types (manual and automation) such as Functional, API, web and mobility
• Experience with CI / CD Pipelines using Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar, and integrating automation assets into the pipeline
• Experience of managing a small team of test engineers
• Ability to collaborate with developers, testers, analysts, architects, and other members across the organisation.
• ISTQB or equivalent certification in testing at foundation level or above (or willingness to obtain an ISTQB Foundation, soon after joining us, which we will cover the cost of the exam)

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini, striving for equity, diversity and inclusion is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built an inclusive and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Mandatory Skills

• OOP language such as Java, Python, C#
• Functional Test tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Playwright or Tricentis Tosca
• Test management tools such as Jira, TFS, OpenText ALM
• Experience of working in waterfall, agile and DevOps environments
• Other tooling such as Postman, Ready API, Soap UI
• Data masking and data subsetting
• BDD approaches using tooling such as Cucumber or SpecFlow

What does 'Get The Future You Want' mean for you?

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini's 'learning for life' mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard Management or, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
You will be encouraged to have a positive work‑life balance. Our hybrid‑first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day‑to‑day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients' businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you'll join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free‑thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what's possible. It's why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world's leading businesses, and it's how you'll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you'll build the skills you want. You'll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.