Test Automation Engineer - Principal & Senior Roles

Salary: £47,000 - 86,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proficient practical experience working in a testing automation role
• Extensive experience working in an agile environment
• Transformational leadership skills with the ability to influence decision making and implement new tools, processes and procedures
• Good mentoring skills to support direct reports in their ongoing development
• Proficient knowledge of at least one agile methodology such as Scrum, Kanban or SAFe
• Familiarity with backlog and test case management systems such as Jira or Octane
• Excellent knowledge using declarative Gherkin to capture business rules and run automated tests with Cucumber
• Strong coding skills to implement automated tests in one or more of Java, JavaScript, TypeScript or C#
• Comfortable with source control using GitHub
• Skilled in user interface automation with Selenium and Selenium Grid, Playwright or Cypress
• Ability to implement tests against APIs either in code or via tools such as SoapUI or Postman
• Good understanding and experience using continuous integration platforms such as Azure DevOps or Jenkins, or equivalent

Responsibilities:

• Provide automation capabilities that support Scrum teams to deliver on an automation-only approach
• Reduce the percentage of tests that cannot be automated by designing and implementing extensions and adjustments to automation frameworks
• Ensure Scrum teams apply critical thinking to validate AI-generated outputs
• Support the testing and continuous improvement of AI-enabled solutions
• Help drive the responsible and effective adoption of AI within everyday delivery
• Use AI tools extensively to accelerate the creation, maintenance and optimisation of test automation and test cases while improving quality and efficiency
• Promote effective human-led AI practices within Scrum teams
• Create effective prompts and critically evaluate AI-generated outputs, identifying inaccuracies, gaps and improvement opportunities
• Support colleagues in adopting AI effectively and responsibly
• Contribute to the testing of AI-enabled solutions and ensure that AI tools are used in line with security, privacy, cost and governance requirements
• Stay informed about emerging AI capabilities and recommend improvements to engineering practices
• Identify opportunities to enhance and extend test automation capabilities with new or updated tooling
• Support the evaluation, decision making, implementation and maintenance of automation tools
• Provide capabilities to support timely and accurate test automation MI for all Scrum teams, including quality measures where possible
• Mentor direct reports, junior staff and new joiners to help them achieve the competencies needed to progress

Technologies:

• AI
• Azure
• C#
• Cucumber
• Cypress
• DevOps
• GitHub
• Support
• JIRA
• Java
• JavaScript
• Jenkins
• Kanban
• Playwright
• Postman
• Security
• Selenium
• TypeScript
• Cloud
• API

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We are a digital insurance provider with ambitious plans to become the best and biggest in the UK market. We have made significant investments in our data and tech capabilities, particularly within our CIO function, and our CIO team is at the forefront of driving innovation and ensuring our technology infrastructure supports our goals. We have nurtured our 4Cs culture, fostering collaboration, creativity and continuous improvement. We provide insurance to nearly four million customers and offer a different way of doing things, with support, training and development, recognition and rewards, flexible hybrid working, a competitive bonus scheme, private medical insurance, life assurance, income protection, matched pension contributions up to 10%, wellbeing support, 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and access to a range of lifestyle and wellbeing benefits. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. Location: Bexhill and Leicester.

last updated 37 week of 2026