Test Automation Engineer

SSE plc; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare discounts

Gym membership discounts

Free online GP

Counselling service

Cycle to Work scheme

Maternity/adoption pay and paternity

Generous family entitlements

Job summary

SSE plc is seeking a Test Analyst to play a key role in ensuring the quality of our digital products. You will join a cross-functional Agile team to shape testing strategies and drive delivery of innovative solutions.

As part of SSE's digital transformation, you will contribute to testing approaches, environments, and data requirements, supporting continuous improvement and a collaborative, inclusive culture across the team.

Qualifications

• Ability to work in environments undergoing change with iterative and adaptive approaches.
• Solid understanding of testing best practice and the development lifecycle.
• Ability to adapt testing processes to optimise delivery of outcomes.
• Experience applying risk-based testing techniques.
• Competence in the use of multiple test management tools.
• Ability to negotiate timelines and other delivery metrics across the product lifecycle.
• Ability to motivate and lead a team of testers and report to management.
• Shows a high level of planning aptitude.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality testing activities across your workstream, ensuring solutions are reliable, robust, and meet user needs.
• Build strong collaborative relationships with delivery teams, stakeholders, and business colleagues to drive successful outcomes.
• Provide test expertise throughout the delivery lifecycle, including planning, test execution, defect management, and reporting.
• Work closely with Delivery Leads to define testing approaches, environments, data requirements, and delivery plans.
• Champion continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance testing practices, processes, and quality standards.
• Support and mentor colleagues, role model best practice, and help foster a secure, inclusive, and high-performing team culture.

Skills

Change adaptability

Testing best practices

Risk-based testing

Test management tools

Timeline negotiation

Team leadership

Planning aptitude

Tools

Test management tools

Job description

Base Location: You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of the following locations: Reading, Cardiff, Havant, or Perth

Salary: £50,964 - £60,899 + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern:Fixed Term contract /Secondment -8months | Full Time | Flexible First options available

The role

We're looking for a Test Analyst to play a key role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and success of our digital products and services. Working as part of a supportive, cross-functional Agile team, you'll help shape testing strategies, champion best practice, and enable the delivery of innovative solutions that make a real difference to our customers and colleagues.

As SSE continues its digital transformation journey, we're embedding Agile ways of working across our business and building the capabilities needed for the future. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to that evolution, influence how we deliver technology, and be part of a collaborative culture that values continuous learning, improvement, and shared success.

You will

• Deliver high-quality testing activities across your workstream, ensuring solutions are reliable, robust, and meet user needs.
• Build strong collaborative relationships with delivery teams, stakeholders, and business colleagues to drive successful outcomes.
• Provide test expertise throughout the delivery lifecycle, including planning, test execution, defect management, and reporting.
• Work closely with Delivery Leads to define testing approaches, environments, data requirements, and delivery plans.
• Champion continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance testing practices, processes, and quality standards.
• Support and mentor colleagues, role model best practice, and help foster a secure, inclusive, and high-performing team culture.

You have

• Ability to work in environments that are undergoing change, working in an iterative and adaptive manner
• Display a solid understanding of testing best practice and the development lifecycle with good experience of applying this knowledge
• Ability to adapt testing processes to optimise delivery of outcomes
• Experience of applying risk based testing techniques
• Be competent in the use of multiple test management tools
• Ability to negotiate timelines and other delivery metrics across product lifecycle
• Have the ability to motivate and lead a team of testers and report accurately to management
• Shows a high level of planning aptitude

About SSE

SSE’s purpose is to be restless every day until we make electricity clean, affordable and available for all.

We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. This includes electricity transmission and distribution networks, onshore and offshore wind farms, hydro-electric power and flexible thermal generation. We also provide products and services for businesses and other customers.

Our investment plan will see SSE invest £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure to 2030.

SSE Energy Solutions support UK organisations by delivering energy and low‑carbon energy solutions. These include EV hubs, solar systems, smart technologies, and heating and cooling networks. We power the clean energy transition by helping customers cut carbon and costs, and by building and investing in flexible electricity infrastructure.

Flexible Benefits To Fit Your Life

• Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships.
• Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service.
• Interest‑free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme.
• As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

Work with an equal opportunity employer

SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact [e-mail] to discuss how we can support you.

We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.