Senior Test Automation Specialist

Ageas Insurance Limited; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider in the UK is seeking a Senior Test Automation Specialist to define and implement automation strategies. Responsibilities include introducing automation tools, leading solutions implementation, and overseeing automation script development. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in testing enterprise systems and knowledge of DevOps practices. Flexibility around work location is provided, alongside a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Health insurance

Annual bonus schemes

Competitive pension

Qualifications

• Significant experience testing large enterprise business systems, including CRM and reporting systems.
• Ability to innovate in test practices and processes.
• Experience managing lower-level pipeline and system level automation.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and recommend automation tools.
• Lead the implementation of automation solutions.
• Oversee design, development, and deployment of automation scripts.

Skills

Experience designing automated test solutions

Knowledge of Selenium

Experience with Java

Understanding of DevOps practices

Good communication skills

Tools

Selenium

Java

RestAssured

SonarQube

Job description

Overview

Senior Test Automation Specialist: The Senior Automation Specialist will be responsible for defining, delivering, and evolving the IT automation strategy. This role will lead the on-going implementation of automation and ensure alignment with business goals and operational efficiency. The specialist will act as a strategic advisor and hands-on expert, driving automation initiatives across infrastructure, applications, and service delivery. They will provide management and leadership for the Test Automation implementation to enable delivery of the IT services that enable Ageas to achieve its goals, within budgets and to schedule.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate, recommend, and introduce automation tools and platforms.
• Define standards and best practices for automation tooling and usage.
• Lead the implementation of automation solutions.
• Oversee the design, development, and deployment of automation scripts, workflows, and pipelines.
• Provide leadership, direction and training to the Automation Test Team.

Benefits

• Flexible Working - Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (within the UK) and, for many roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop-offs. We also offer part-time or job-share vacancies and a minimum of 35 days holiday (including bank holidays) with the option to buy and sell days.
• Health - Dental Insurance, Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities (Mindfulness).
• Wealth - Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
• Work - Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events, and more.
• Family - Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks\' full pay.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining automated test solutions.
• Experience and knowledge of software architectures & technologies such as Selenium, Java, RestAssured & SonarQube.
• Ability to innovate in test and test-delivery practices and processes, forming new effective solutions to problems.
• Significant experience testing large enterprise business systems, including front office (CRM/policy-admin) and back-office systems (reporting/document management/claims).
• Good knowledge of DevOps practices, understanding of pipeline build processes and the role of test automation in pipelines.
• Experience coordinating end-to-end test automation across deployed enterprise systems, ideally automated regression.
• Experience managing lower-level pipeline/overnight component and system level automation.

About Ageas

We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. We are committed to inclusivity and recruitment practices that are accessible to all. We are signatories of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we provide fair access to support and adjustments throughout recruitment. We guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria. For more information, see Ageas Everyone. We have a zero-tolerance approach towards harassment during recruitment. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of time working from home, and we are open to flexible working arrangements.