Automation Test Analyst

Life can sometimes be unpredictable, and it pays to plan ahead. Our aim at Legal & General Retail is to help our customers plan for the unexpected, achieve financial security for their tomorrow, and protect everything that’s important to them. To better understand our customers and meet their needs, we’ve brought our protection, retirement income, savings, lending and advice, fintech and mortgage businesses under one umbrella. Created at the start of 2022 through the merging of our long-standing and trusted retail retirement and insurance businesses, we’re a fast-growing division with big, customer-centred ambitions.

Legal and General Retail business are currently looking to hire a new Automation Test Analyst into the testing team to carry out automation testing processes consistent with L&G test policy and strategy.

You will be working as part of the test team to ensure that efficient automation testing is delivered to the agreed quality standards as the business continues its journey of technical change and transformation.

What you’ll be Doing

• Managing and delivering the automation of testing of core applications within agreed parameters of cost, timescales and quality while maintaining an ongoing automation process for business and technical systems.
• Developing, designing and checking architectural governance and compliance of design solutions and educating the team and stakeholders to ensure that business and information technology solutions are consistent with business requirements and needs.
• Ensuring that testers are familiar and up to date with current solutions and ongoing development of automated testing
• Conducting test reviews (including Static testing) throughout the development lifecycle, to identify any artefacts that are not fit for purpose.
• Ensuring compliance with the agreed test methodology and standards to ensure good governance and record keeping in line with Legal & General test principles and commercial interests.
• Providing input into defining the appropriate test approach in collaboration with the Test Manager to ensure effective Test preparation and execution, which mitigates business risk.
• Providing effective communication to Test Managers and Business users to support the smooth delivery of the test activity including progress reports and defect status for example.
• Owning the creation of the Test Analysis deliverables including Acceptance Criteria, throughout the whole project lifecycle applying best practice testing principles to ensure cost effective testing whilst balancing business risk and determining the adequate level of Test Coverage in collaboration with the Test Manager, Business Analysts and Business Users and provide input into the testing estimates.
• Performing test execution, involving leading business resources where required, as agreed in the BAT Stage Test Plan and raise defects on ALM or JIRA and retesting defect fixes when deployed to the test environments.

• Full understanding of a variety of test analysis techniques and their implementation
• Should have good knowledge of BDD, TDD, and automation tool sets and different test process and methodologies
• Full understanding of the creation and execution of test scripts
• Good understanding of the different drivers and needs of customers, distributors, and partners
• Working knowledge of L&G Business Unit products and services, and of competitor markets and broader market developments and can evaluate their impact upon the organisation
• Detailed Knowledge and understanding of systems and structures within Business Units
• Good Understanding of L&G wide systems, structures, and dependencies
• Experience in at least 2 test methodologies (for example Waterfall, Agile, SAFe, Extreme) across multiple projects
• At least 2 years’ experience in scripting with languages like Java, C#
• At least 2 years hands on experience in developing automation test scripts as also in creation of test automation framework, and design
• Experience in core JAVA, Selenium, Appium, TestNG, jUnit
• Experienced in using JIRA, and ideally also XRay plugin to control scripting and execution of tests
• Experience in use of defect management tool
• Experience in use of several industry recognized test analysis techniques
• Experience in Financial Services Industry required, Pensions an advantage

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.