588 Test Automation Specialist jobs in the United Kingdom

Test Automation Specialist Engineer- upto 65,000- Burgess Hill, UK (Hybrid)

A large scale international banking/ finance client in Burgess Hill, UK is looking for a Test Automation Engineer to join their team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and executing robust automated tests to ensure the quality, security, and reliability of our mission-critical banking applications.

They offer a great career opportunity to work on interesting projects in a large IT function - giving you the chance to move into more senior positions in the future.

As the successful candidate you must have:

• Overall Experience: 5 years in software testing with a 3-year focus on building scalable automation solutions.
• UI & Mobile Automation: Expertise in modern frameworks including Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, WebdriverIO, and Appium.
• Core Programming Skills: Strong command of Java, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript for creating reliable and maintainable test scripts.
• API & Services Testing: Proficient in validating APIs using tools like Rest Assured and Postman.
• DevOps Integration: Experienced in integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
• Emerging Technology: Over 6 months of practical experience applying GenAI tools to enhance quality assurance processes.
• Methodology: Thorough understanding and practical application of Agile and Scrum principles.

This is an urgent vacancy where the hiring manager is looking to shortlist for an interview immediately. Please send a copy of your CV to ( surjeeth. Singh @ randstad digital . com ) asap to be considered.

Randstad Technologies Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT & Engineering industries. Please note that due to a high level of applications, we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.

Future’s Technology department has been instrumental in the company’s success over recent years and is vital to Future’s continued growth and disruption of the digital publishing industry.

As part of the strategy around Go.Compare’s acquisition by Future we’re putting in a technology roadmap for re-platforming our domain around an API first, cloud based serverless architecture to become the PCW leading service.  This is part of our plan to broaden the scope from the Go.Compare brand.

What you'll be doing…

As a QA Automation Engineer you’ll work closely with the QA Lead, Senior QA Automation Engineers and within your Squad  to drive our efforts to build up a robust automation test framework to support our replatform of our service.   

You will help to guide on best practice and approach, identify defects and work alongside the Software Engineers whilst they are writing solutions, to ensure that our automated testing solution is kept up to date, in real time with the coding efforts of the Engineering team, as well as to help identify and deliver the required test coverage across the platform. 

The responsibility of Quality will be owned by the whole Squad but you will help to implement Quality Gates and ensure Software Engineers are building in quality at the earliest possible stage (shift left).  You will support Senior QA Automation Engineers in their role as gate-keepers for Quality Assurance throughout the environmental promotion of releases.

Experience that will put you ahead of the curve…

• You have proven experience using one or more of Playwright,  Protractor, Cypress, WebDriver.io and/or JavaScript/TypeScript testing frameworks.
• You understand and identify Acceptance Criteria with Product Owners and teams and must be able to elicit test conditions, scenarios and supporting test data from these ACs.
• You should hold ISTQB Software Testing Foundation or equivalent certification
• You have a good understanding of functional and non-functional testing approaches, and have good experience of implementing test suites to support integration, end to end and cross browser/device testing needs.

• You are confident in testing APIs, have experience of Postman or an equivalent toolset.

• You are able to collaborate with Team Leads, QA Lead and Senior QA Automation Engineers to align best practices &  QA automation practices.
• You have experience with basic development tools like Git and Azure DevOps.
• You have experience writing basic SQL queries.
• You are able to communicate technical information to non-technical people as needed.
• You have a drive to continuously improve quality.

What's in it for you…

We have a number of awesome perks available to our staff.  We offer huge opportunities to learn and develop, whether through professional qualifications, exposure to incredible business projects or informal lunch & learns, hosted by your colleagues. We have a fantastic culture where we really do care about our people and want everyone to succeed. Varied roles mean you’re not pigeonholed in to one finite area but get the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills and experience

And to top it all off, not only do we offer unlimited holiday because we trust you to manage your workload and time but we also offer a share in our success whereby every colleague is eligible to join our profit pool bonus scheme - if Future hits their performance targets all colleagues may receive a bonus.

Internal job family level T6

The expected range for this role is £33,000 - £55,000

This is a Remote based role however, you must be a resident of the UK and have the legal right to work in this location

Who are we…

We’re Future. We’re 3000+ colleagues over 250+ brands speaking to 400 million people every month across the globe through websites, events and magazines. We’ve got ambitious plans that build on our growth momentum and unlock new opportunities and we’re looking for talented people who want to be a part of it. 

Our Future, Our Responsibility - Inclusion and Diversity at Future

We have a voice and we’re going to use it. We promote diversity and inclusion not just in our recruitment processes, but everything we do. We’re an equal opportunity employer and we will continue to ensure our recruitment process is free of bias and our workplaces are inclusive, positive, free of discrimination and respecting of all backgrounds and beliefs. Our culture is underpinned by our values and employees - current and future - are treated with respect and fairness.

Please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made so we can give you the best experience!

Find out more about Our Future, Our Responsibility on our website.

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Job Description

We are looking for a highly talented Automated Tester who is in search of every bug, defect and glitch in the matrix! You can perform functional and non-functional testing on web and mobile applications in your sleep.

Our Agile process is mature, and everyone can contribute when planning. We plan and estimate using Planning poker and the Fibonacci scale, ensuring that everyone in our team has a voice. Collaboration is key and we genuinely value everyone’s individual skillset and opinion.

You'll need to be confident in writing, programming, and running automated tests and regression suites; having gained demonstrable experience in Selenium WebDriver for automation and Postman for API Testing.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on cutting edge, enterprise grade web-based solutions, where you will be part of a brilliant cross functional team consisting of Developers, Business Analysts & Scrum Masters.

Responsibilities:

• Creating, developing and improving the automation suites for projects
• Develop our automation tests within our test frameworks using Java as our core development language with selenium Web driver
• Working alongside Development teams and other stakeholders to resolve issues
• Writing and running test scripts and regression suits and accurately recording issues raised

Essential Skills

• You’re curious, ambitious, and hardworking and thrive in a fast-moving digital environment
• You already have experience in QA testing web-based applications, cross browser functional testing, strong familiarity with bug tracking and reporting applications, plus experience of writing test cases
• Needless to say, you will come armed with experience of Selenium WebDriver with the Java programming language HTML, CSS and JavaScript and a Working knowledge of BDD (Behaviour Driven Development

Benefits

Work’s a treat

• 25 days’ holiday + bank holidays – we understand the importance of you getting some down time.
• Annual Wellbeing Day – enjoy an additional day on us to look after your physical and mental wellbeing.
• Pension Scheme – helping you save towards your retirement home in the sun!
• Corporate Medical Cash Plan – claim back the cost of your medical treatments.
• So many savings – through our online community platform, you can access dozens of daily deals, from money off top brands to discounts on days out.
• Employee Assistance Programme – our people are at the heart of everything we do, so if you’re happy, we’re happy.
• Cycle to Work Scheme – save on the cost of biking to work.
• Monthly Employee Awards - Employee of the Month programme with £250 bonus
• Raising money for charity including a paid Volunteer Day – we’re all about giving back… and having lots of fun in the process!
• Referral scheme – know the perfect person to join the team? You could bag £1,000 for a putting a good word in.
• Wellbeing Programme – giving you the opportunity to join regular, interactive Wellbeing Workshops or join our 30 plus Wellbeing Champions.
• Enhanced Family Friendly Leave – support for you and your family to help you navigate through the craziness of family life.

We Value Diversity

We champion and welcome diversity in our workforce and ensure all job applicants receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender or gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality.

We are not only committed to increasing the visibility and recognition of talent from under-represented groups within our organisation, but the wider industry too.

At the end of the day, we make sure we take time to look after ourselves, each other, and the planet, because we’re always stronger together.

ITG have a number of community groups available to employees and exist to offer a safe space for like-minded colleagues, with shared interests to connect, socialise and check in with each other.

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Novata is a public benefit corporation created and funded by a unique consortium of foundations and private sector companies including the Ford Foundation, the Omidyar Network, S&P Global, and Hamilton Lane. We are a for-profit, mission-driven company with the goal of empowering the private markets to build a more inclusive and sustainable form of capitalism. By bringing together the brightest minds in financial data, private equity, social justice and inclusive capitalism, we aim to build the best technology and tools for the private markets to better collect, analyze, benchmark and report ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) data. We have an experienced and diverse team who are as ambitious about growing a successful company as we are about making an impact.

We’re a team of around 55 mixed discipline individuals, split into 6 cross-functional squads. We focus on outcomes, not output, hence we like to be quite experimental and study the data to uncover where the real value is for our customers. Squads have the autonomy to decide how they want to work best, but it just so happens that all squads currently work in 2 week sprints, with the goal of delivering a thin vertical slice of value every iteration.

Requirements

For this role you’ll be working across the product and engineering department and be responsible for ensuring our ESG reporting application achieves our quality targets, and delivers the best experience for our users.

Currently we have 2 manual QA contractors working alongside the Lead QA Engineer that is the line and hiring manager for this role. We are moving towards stronger automation in our testing and as such will be replacing the contractors in due course with this permanent hire. 

This role will encompass taking ownership of the Automation testing guidelines, framework and part of the strategy. You’ll be responsible for building and maintaining the automation framework, working to develop strategies for both functional and non-functional automation testing, supporting the engineering teams in test writing, and managing automation testing tools. The delivery teams are responsible for covering their functionality with automated tests of all levels but you’ll be responsible for coaching them and making sure that we meet our strategic goals.

• TypeScript , React , Node.js and PostgreSQL for our application.
• Jest, Cucumber and Playwright for our existing automation.
• Atlassian Jira and Confluence as our project management tool.
• BrowserStack for cross-browser and compatibility testing of our application.
• Git for managing change.
• Postman or Fiddler for manual API testing

• Ensure that the team's collective output is comprehensively tested and meets our quality targets.
• Work closely with engineers to guide the test coverage of the tickets, making sure that test scripts are comprehensive, follow our guidelines, and provide sufficient coverage.
• Build and maintain automation testing framework.
• Work closely with the engineers to help coach them in the best practices of automation testing and be inline with our strategy.
• Work to establish strategies for non-functional testing such as performance testing.
• Fulfill additional duties as requested.

• At least 4 or more years of demonstrable experience engineering automated testing solutions using TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Experience in building and maintaining automation frameworks for both functional and non-functional testing.
• Great attention to detail, you care deeply about the team’s output and take a no-compromise stance when it comes to quality.
• Excellent communication skills, and are able to work collaboratively and respectfully with other team members.
• A start-up mentality, are responsible, energetic, ambitious, adaptable and willing to jump in wherever you might be needed.
• Extensive experience creating test documentation such as test strategies, test plans and writing detailed bug reports.
• Deep understanding of Quality Assurance processes when it comes to both the theory as well as the implementation of it.
• Have experience with a variety of testing tools and frameworks, ideally BrowserStack and Percy.
• Experience working hand-in-hand with manual QAs and Engineers.

Our interview process involves 3 main stages.

1. An initial screening call where we’ll ask questions about your current and recent roles to gage your experience and talk about you as a person
2. A 2-stage technical assessment, starting with a technical Interview and then a take-home exercise.
3. Follow up after the technical exercise where we discuss how you approached it and why you made the decisions you did.

End-to-end, the process typically takes 3-4 weeks but we’re happy to work around your schedule and move faster or slower if need be.

• Applicants are expected to spend at least 1 day per week in a Novata office, although if that doesn’t work for you we do have some flexibility on allowing more remote work.
• Applicants must be located in and eligible to work in the UK. Sorry, but we can’t currently support or sponsor visa applications.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary with stock options.
• Hybrid approach to working, with regular coworking days in our London office and access to offices in New York and Washington DC.
• 30 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays.
• A non-contributory pension scheme of 9% of your base-salary from us.
• Comprehensive private medical insurance for you and your dependants.
• Life Assurance and Income Protection

Anticipated Salary Range £75K to £90K depending upon experience.