Senior Test Automation Developer

Role Mission: Drive automation for our software tests for systems undergoing significant changes in design. Fully reap the benefits in test coverage, speed and confidence that automation offers.

Accountabilities:

• Take over ownership of the existing test automation scripts from vendors
• Improve efficiency of test automation
• Improve test reliability and time taken for automated test runs
• Improve quality of releases in terms of user experience and satisfaction
• Build an automation process on off-the-shelf test automation solutions

Responsibilities:

• Designing, implementing and optimising processes for test automation
• Establishing and tracking metrics for test automation to use data to drive improvement and accountability
• Work with stakeholders across engineering and QA teams to ensure alignment on goals
• Designing and implementing test automation approaches and ways to track their efficacy
• Working with vendors to deliver automation solutions to the standards defined above

Areas of Impact:

• Stakeholders: QA, Engineering, Program/Delivery Management, Product
• Decision Rights: Strongly advise QA/Automation tools and license purchase, strongly advise KPIs for the test automation team
• Resources: ~10 automation resources from vendors as peers, some existing licenses for UiPath, BrowserStack

Requirements:
Ideal Track Record:

• Delivered automated tests numbering in the hundreds, measurable regression improvement times in hours if not in days
• Designed, or at least significantly contributed to, and implemented automated test frameworks from scratch that have measurably improved test efficiency.
• Designed some dashboards for reporting on test automation stats to stakeholders
• Integrated tests with CI/CD pipelines