Test Automation Lead, Delivery Centre- Newcastle

Agency:

Credera

Job Function:

Consulting

Job Subfunction:

Business and Change Consulting

Job Description:

Would you like to be part of a growing engineering capability in a people-centric organisation? Or perhaps work in an open and collaborative learning environment? Are you passionate about technology, people and developing your coding skills? We have got all this and more. Whatever your aspirations, we’re looking for engineers to be part of an exceptional technology capability, providing dedicated engineering capacity for our clients.

At Credera, we work with a range of clients and help them to level-up their engineering capabilities in a partnership model. Through our Delivery Centre, we help them build microservices architectures, develop AI and machine learning capabilities and operate cloud infrastructure. As part of the Delivery Centre team, you’ll collaborate with architects, technology consultants and client stakeholders, giving you a chance to hone your skills across the latest technologies, development and operational practices, and cloud platforms, whilst growing your career.

The central hub for this position is in Newcastle, but we welcome applicants from across the North-East. We operate a hybrid working policy with an expectation of 60% in office time. We value collaboration and client impact, so our hybrid model is designed to strike a balance between flexibility, in-person connection, and delivering exceptional outcomes for our clients.

Responsibilities

Our Engineers create products and platforms to transform businesses. Some of the most difficult technical problems now facing organisations have been resolved by our engineers. They have revolutionized how the UK government uses data and assisted in the creation of brand-new digital banks.  

Our engineers take a holistic approach that addresses technology, process, and structure to make a lasting impact. We work collaboratively with users to create minimum viable products that are truly ready for use.   

Our test automation engineers are a key part of all our customer and data product engineering teams and work closely with the rest of the team to apply automation to ensure high quality software can be released continuously. As part of that you’ll typically be expected to: 

 

• Take ownership of developing our test automation practices, and acting as a subject matter expert in the team for tests and test infrastructure 

• Write reusable and extensible automated tests which can evolve with the product and enable continuous delivery to production through CI/CD 

• Use your knowledge to help the product development team build automated processes that will ensure our end users experience a high-quality, usable, secure, and reliable product 

• Communicate what, how, and why of our test strategy for ensuring quality to your team 

• Design and build prototypes and experiments that can validate and improve our system architecture and eliminate gaps in our test approach 

• Work with your team to continually improve their automated test practices 

• Use Jira and Confluence to manage test activity, defects, reporting and documentation.  

• Integrate test tooling with Jira to support effective tracking and traceability.  

• Work collaboratively across client, internal and third-party supplier teams to coordinate testing activity. 

• Review and assure testing delivered by other suppliers, ensuring appropriate quality standards are met. 

• Influence and challenge testing approaches and outcomes where needed before products and services transition into support. 

 

Who you are

• You’ll have experience in automated end-to-end and integration testing in any of JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or C# 

• Experience using Jira and Confluence, including integration of test tools with Jira.  

• Experience working in multi-supplier environments is desirable, with the ability to collaborate with third-party testing teams.  

• Ability to influence and assure the quality of testing delivered by other suppliers ahead of service transition and support. 

• Experience developing UI tests for web experiences, mobile apps or both 

• Experienced in creating test automation frameworks from scratch and writing automated tests using one or more of Cypress, Selenium, WebDriverIO, JMeter, Cucumber and Gherkin 

• Experienced in working on API testing using tools such as Postman and SOAPUI to name a couple 

• Experience in using git and common CI/CD toolsets 

• Awareness of consumer-driven contract testing 

• Experience working within an agile, iterative engineering environment 

• Willing to work collaboratively 

• Have a drive for self-improvement and learning new technologies 

• Approach solving problems pragmatically 

Benefits

Along with a great company culture, Credera provides an exceptional compensation package including a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefit plan. Whilst working on a long-term engagement, you will have access to a range of training and development opportunities, as well as coaching and mentoring from experienced technologists.

Our consistent growth over the years and entrepreneurial environment, provides an excellent platform to embark upon an exciting career path, where your contribution really counts, and we will recognise it. With a supportive network of colleagues around the globe and exciting client assignments, you’ll feel empowered to bring your best self and thrive in a collaborative environment. We are a social bunch of people and connect as a team on a regular basis.

Learn More

Credera is Omnicom's global consulting firm that combines transformational consulting capabilities, deep industry knowledge, AI and technology expertise to deliver valuable customer experiences and accelerated growth across a broad range of industries worldwide. Our one-of-a-kind global boutique approach means we provide our clients with tailored solutions unique to their organisation that can scale due to our extensive footprint. As a values-led organisation, our mission is to make an extraordinary impact on our clients, our people, and our community.

We believe it is this approach that has allowed us to work with and transform the most influential brands and organisations in the world, from strategy through to execution. More information is available at credera.co.uk. We are part of the OPM Group of Companies, within Omnicom Group Inc.

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