Automation Engineer

Hastings Direct

Multiple Locations
Attractive salary based on experience; competitive...
On-site
Agile sprint team collaboration
Sprint ceremonies participation
Acceptance criteria writing
Hastings Direct is seeking an Automation Engineer to join their CIO team, which is focused on driving innovation within their technology infrastructure. The ideal candidate should be experienced in Agile methodologies, automated testing, and have strong coding skills in languages such as Java or C#. The position offers a supportive culture, competitive salary, and a range of benefits to promote well-being and professional development

Job Summary

  • You will be working as an individual collaborator on one of many sprint teams alongside colleagues that cross multiple disciplines.
  • You will be confident and vocal in sprint ceremonies like stand-ups, planning, retrospectives, 3-amigos and backlog elaboration.
  • We provide insurance to nearly four million customers, but we know there’s even bigger opportunity out there.

Matching Summary

Match Score: 85

Hastings Direct is seeking an Automation Engineer to join their CIO team, which is focused on driving innovation within their technology infrastructure. The ideal candidate should be experienced in Agile methodologies, automated testing, and have strong coding skills in languages such as Java or C#. The position offers a supportive culture, competitive salary, and a range of benefits to promote well-being and professional development.

Salary

Attractive salary based on experience; Competitive Bonus Scheme; Healthcare cash plan, life assurance, income protection, pension contribution match up to 10%, discounts and cashback

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Agile sprint team collaboration
  • Sprint ceremonies participation
  • Acceptance Criteria writing
  • Automated tests implementation
  • UI automation with Selenium/Playwright/Cypress
  • API testing

Nice-to-have

  • Digital insurance provider
  • 4Cs culture
  • Continuous improvement

Key Requirements

  • Experience with Scrum, Kanban, Safe
  • Jira or Octane backlog management
  • Octane or X-Ray test case management
  • Gherkin and Cucumber for automated tests
  • Coding in Java, JavaScript, Typescript, C#
  • Source control with GitHub
  • Selenium & Selenium Grid, Playwright or Cypress
  • API testing via code or tools like SoapUI, Postman

Work Rights

Not specified

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