Automation Test Lead
- London
- Full-time
- IT & Change
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Legal & General supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses.
Our Retail division helps people enjoy a more colourful retirement, both directly and through their employers, including Lifetime Mortgages, Retirement Interest Only Mortgages and financial advice on our range of lending products.
We are the UK’s number one individual life insurer, and also provide Group Protection products for employers – all helping people to plan for the unexpected. We support home buying through our Mortgage Club – the UK’s largest – and our award-winning Surveying Services team. And our fintech team finds and supports socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas.
Joining us means helping create brighter financial futures for all our customers.
Legal and General Retail Protection Testing team are looking to hire an Automation Test Lead to aid in the development, configuration and execution of automated tests as well as managing and maintaining the test automation framework.
The role would see you working across a mix of projects in as part of multidisciplinary teams focusing on delivering testing services to areas such as life insurance and the associated policies. You will be using tools such as Java, Cucumber, Selenium and Q-flow to execute tasks while ensuring that test automation is utilised effectively to reduce delivery timescales and safeguard software quality.
What you'll be doing:
- Delivering test automation tasks for multiple concurrent work-streams, adhering to defined standards and aligned to the test automation strategy and taking responsibility for ensuring the automation framework is functional and fit-for-purpose, with all software components kept up to date
- Collaborating with stakeholders at all levels, to ensure that automation tests are developed aligned to user stories and the appropriate test approach
- Researching emerging trends and technologies in the test automation field, facilitating continuous improvement in the discipline and driving forward the test automation strategy
- Providing clear, concise reporting for test automation progress, results and coverage, ensuring that Test Managers, Project Managers and other stakeholders are empowered with the required information
- Coaching and mentoring other test professionals in the area of test automation (technical and conceptual aspects), to develop their skills and expertise, and to enhancing the capability of the automation discipline
- Seeking opportunities to utilise test automation more effectively, maximising the value offered by the discipline and to facilitate the application of DevOps and Agile practices
- Ensuring that all business processes and internal controls within your role are designed and performed in a way that delivers good customer outcomes and demonstrates effective management of Conduct Risk
Who we're looking for:
- ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst certification or equivalent experience
- Strong knowledge of BDD, TDD, automation tool sets and different test processes and methodologies
- A good understanding of the different drivers and needs of customers, distributors and partners as well as those of a Scrum Team
- 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
- Experience in automation tools like Selenium, Cucumber and Protractor, Winium for legacy applications, and continuous integration tools like Jenkins and GitHub
- Experience in coaching/training and mentoring junior members of automation teams
- Experience using Test Management tools to manage test execution and reporting specifically JIRA and XRay plugins
- Able to demonstrate supportive, communicative and collaborative approach to working in a team
- Previous automation team leadership, coaching or people management experience is desirable
Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
- The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
- Generous pension contribution
- Life assurance
- Private medical insurance (permanent employees only)
- At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
- Competitive family leave
- Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice
- There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
- In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart
Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.
We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.
If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.
We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.
If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.
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