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, Browser
• Stack 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