Technical Test Lead - Test Automation

Helping over ten million people around the world manage their savings, retirement plans and life insurance requires a lot of people behind-the-scenes.  It’s up to us in L&G Group functions – which includes our tech and digital teams, Group Finance, HR, Risk and Corporate Comms to provide the essential support services that all areas of the business need, here in the UK and overseas. Simply put, we enable everyone at Legal & General to do what they do best. That means we’re helping to improve our customers’ lives, and contributing to the success of the business every day.

Legal and General Group Finance’s testing team are looking to hire a new Technical Test Lead to manage a small team in the creation and maintenance of a scalable and efficient test automation framework.

This role will see you manage all technical test planning, test design and execution, performance and stress testing and implementing and maintaining test automation across internal portfolios. You will be working closely with the Head of Test and Quality and Portfolio Test Managers to create and maintain an automation stack that is robust, reliable and ensure that updates and additions to the code stack are completed efficiently.

What you’ll be doing

• Providing advice and guidance on any aspect of technical test planning and execution.
• Adopting and adapting appropriate testing methods, automated tools, and techniques to solve problems in tools and testing approaches.
• Creating Test Automation framework from the beginning and setting a uniform Test automaton standard across business.
• Planning and driving technical testing activities across all stages and iterations of product, systems, and service development.
• Identifying improvements and contributing to the development of policies, standards, and guidelines for testing.
• Ensuring that standards and agreed processes are adhered to, and all the test artefacts align to the overall test automation strategy and architecture as well as audit requirements
• Where appropriate, collaborating with other specialists to ensure advise given is appropriate to the organisation’s needs.
• Helping develop and enhance stakeholder relationships. Dealing with problems and issues, managing resolutions, lessons learned, and the collection and dissemination of relevant information.
• Managing, motivating, and developing employees at all levels, in a manner that is consistent with the Company’s policies and procedures including the Partnership Agreement, to maximise the performance of the area.

• An expert understanding of software testing, why it is important, and how it fits into the software development process is essential.
• Serving as a lead in defining and rolling out standard Automation Frameworks, in line with latest industry/business
• Agile and Scrum (essential knowledge and skills required)
• Test Driven Development (essential knowledge and skills required)
• Continuous Testing (essential knowledge and skills required)
• Understanding of non-functional testing and ability to integrate the same within automation solution
• Possess in-depth knowledge of multiple open source/commercial tools for Web and API test automation (Rest API, Selenium, Test Complete, JMeter etc.)
• Experience in setting up and running CI/CD, Selenium grids, Git and other repo hubs
• Adept at carving out / architecting commercially viable testing solutions, creating value differentiators
• In-depth knowledge of Platforms like Azure, Windows / UNIX / Mainframes / Midrange / Networks
• Experience in API and Front-end automation
• Experience in Integration and configuration of test automation framework
• Previous leadership, coaching or people management experience.

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.