Quality Automation Specialist, AVP

Join us as a Quality Automation Specialist

• In this key role, you’ll be undertaking and enabling automated testing activities in all delivery models
• We’ll look to you to support teams to develop quality solutions and enable continuous integration and assurance of defect free deployment of customer value
• You’ll be working closely with feature teams and a variety of stakeholders, giving you great exposure to professional development opportunities
• We're offering this role at associate vice president level
  
  

What you'll do

Joining us in a highly collaborative role, you’ll be contributing to the transformation of testing using quality processes, tools, and methodologies, significantly improving control, accuracy and integrity. You’ll be making sure repeatable, constant and consistent quality is built into all phases of the idea to value lifecycle at reduced cost or reduced time to market.

It’s a chance to work with colleagues at multiple levels, and with cross-domain, domain, platform and feature teams, to build in quality as an integral part of all activities.

Additionally, you’ll be:

• Supporting the design of automation test strategies, aligned to business or programme goals
• Evolving more predictive and intelligent testing approaches, based on automation and innovative testing products and solutions
• Collaborating with stakeholders and feature teams and making sure that automated testing is performed and monitored as an essential part of the planning and product delivery
• Designing and creating a low maintenance suite of stable, re-usable automated tests, which are usable both within the product or domain and across domains and systems in an end-to-end capacity
• Applying testing and delivery standards by understanding the product development lifecycle along with mandatory, regulatory and compliance requirements
  
  

The skills you'll need

We are looking for a highly skilled QA Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and to ensure high‑quality delivery of our applications. The ideal candidate will have strong experience with automation tools, scripting, and CI/CD practices.

You’ll have a good understanding of Agile methodologies with experience of working in an Agile team, with the ability to relate everyday work to the strategic vision of the feature team with a strong focus on business outcomes.

We’ll also look for you to have:

• At least seven years of experience designing, developing, and maintaining automation frameworks for web, API, UI, and data migration testing using Java, Unix/Linux scripting, or JavaScript
• Strong experience in API and integration testing using tools such as Postman and RestAssured, along with frameworks like TestNG, JUnit, and BDD
• Hands‑on experience with databases, particularly PostgreSQL, including data validation and query execution
• Proven ability to ensure comprehensive test coverage across functional, regression, and integration testing, with a continuous improvement mindset for automation strategies
• Experience working with Git and CI/CD pipelines, integrating automated tests into build and deployment workflows
• Strong collaboration and problem‑solving skills, with experience working closely with developers, product owners, and QA teams, and identifying, tracking, and managing defects using tools such as Jira.