Senior Test Automation Specialist

Job Title: Senior Test Automation Specialist Target Start Date: ASAP Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available Salary Range: £65,000 Location: Any Ageas UK Office - Hybrid - once a year Closing Date for applications:  Thursday 30th October

Senior Test Automation Specialist: The Senior Automation Specialist will be responsible for defining, delivering, and evolving the IT automation strategy. This role will lead the on-going implementation of automation and ensure alignment with business goals and operational efficiency. The specialist will act as a strategic advisor and hands-on expert, driving automation initiatives across infrastructure, applications, and service delivery.

They will provide management and leadership for the Test Automation implementation to enable delivery of the IT services that enable Ageas to achieve its goals, within budgets and to schedule.Main Responsibilities as Senior Test Automation Specialist:

• Evaluate, recommend, and introduce automation tools and platforms.
• Define standards and best practices for automation tooling and usage.
• Lead the implementation of automation solutions.
• Oversee the design, development, and deployment of automation scripts, workflows, and pipelines.
• Provide leadership, direction and training to the Automation Test Team.

Skills and experience you need as Senior Test Automation Specialist:

• Experience of designing, implementing, and maintaining automated test solutions.
• Experience and knowledge of software architectures & technologies such as Selenium, Java, RestAssured & SonarQube.
• Ability to innovate in the test and test-delivery practices and process domain, forming new effective solutions to problems.
• Significant experience of testing large enterprise business systems.  This should not be limited to public / customer facing web systems, it should include the testing of front office (CRM / policy-admin) type systems and of back-office systems (reporting / document management / claims).
• Good knowledge of DevOps practices, a solid understanding of the nature of pipeline build processes and of the role of test automation in pipelines.
• Experience of managing the use of test automation to provide end to end testing across deployed enterprise systems, ideally of an automated regression nature.
• Experience managing the use of lower-level pipeline / overnight component and system level automation.

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas: 

Flexible Working- Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Supporting your Health- Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities –  Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth- Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work- Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Supporting you and your Family- Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.

Benefits for Them- Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.

Get some Tech- Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Getting around- Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.

Supporting you back to work- Return to work programme after maternity leave.

About Ageas: We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK.Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers.As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information, please see Ageas Everyone . We have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism.Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share</