Principal Test Engineer

About The Role Team – Member Servicing and Claims - IT Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in any of the Vitality Offices (Bournemouth, London or Stockport). Full time, 37.5 hours per week. We are happy to discuss flexible working! Top 3 skills needed for this role:

• Expertise in Test Automation Framework Design
• Leading & executing in Strategic Test Planning
• Recognised as a subject matter expert in testing standards and governance

What this role is all about: As a Principal Test Engineer at Vitality, you’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring our products and features are robust, reliable, and ready for market. You’ll guide testing across large or multiple teams, bringing deep technical expertise, particularly in automation and influencing both internal and external stakeholders on testing standards and governance.You’ll be responsible for designing and maintaining test automation frameworks, guiding teams in their use, and ensuring alignment with industry best practices. Your work will span the full software test lifecycle—from analysis and estimation to execution, defect management, and reporting.Key Actions

• Lead and implement the full software test lifecycle, including planning, execution, and reporting.
• Design and maintain automation frameworks and educate teams on their use.
• Deliver accurate test estimations for complex, multi-system projects.
• Define and coordinate test plans and approaches across multiple teams.
• Oversee test execution, ensuring integration with CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage defect triage and ensure timely resolution.
• Champion adherence to testing standards, supporting the development of new practices and tools.
• Engage with stakeholders across IT and business to align testing with strategic goals.
• Mentor and coach test engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and excellence.
• Stay current with industry trends and recommend technologies to modernise Vitality’s testing capabilities

What do you need to thrive?

• Test automation framework design and maintenance
• Proficiency in automation tools (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright)
• Programming/scripting (e.g., Java, Python, C#, JavaScript)
• API testing and automation (e.g., Postman, REST Assured)
• CI/CD integration (e.g., Jenkins, Azure DevOps)
• Test planning, estimation, and execution
• Defect management and reporting
• Adherence to testing standards and governance
• Previous experience mentoring and coaching test engineers
• Able to work together with cross-functional teams

So, what’s in it for you?

• Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
• A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
• Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
• Life Assurance – Four times annual salary

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities! If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:

• Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
• Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
• Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
• Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
• Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
• Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
• Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
• Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
• Be there for you when you need us.
• Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy. About The Company We're really excited to announce that we have recently been awarded "Top 10 Best Places To Work" in The Sunday Times Awards 2024!Vitality is a multi-award-winning UK insurance brand, here to make the world a healthier, happier place.We’ve been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1- long before it became fashionable. Our core purpose is to make people healthier and enhance protect their lives. Vitality pioneered shared-value insurance. We incentivise people to live healthier longer lives – they benefit, our business benefits, and society benefits. We’re successful because we attract, develop, and retain the best people – and because we care.Plus, you get to join our 1.7+ million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme. Just to make sure you know our products inside and out.Diversity & Inclusion At Vitality, we’re committed to diversity and inclusion because it’s good for our employees, for our business, and for society. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.Vitality’s approach to sustainability Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page. If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early. If you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.