Automation Engineer

We’re a digital insurance provider with ambitious plans to become The Best and Biggest in the UK market. Over the past few years, we've made significant investments in our data and tech capabilities, particularly within our CIO function. Our CIO team is at the forefront of driving innovation and ensuring our technology infrastructure supports our ambitious goals. We’ve nurtured our 4

Cs culture, fostering collaboration, creativity, and continuous improvement.

We’re proud of the journey we’re on as a company and know that our continued success will rely on the contribution of our talented colleagues. The CIO team plays a crucial role in this journey, working on cutting-edge projects that enhance our digital presence and improve customer engagement.

We provide insurance to nearly four million customers, but we know there’s even bigger opportunity out there. The fact you’re now reading this job advert means we’ve tempted you to find out more about – we really hope you like what you see, and you’ll join us to share in the success of the exciting chapter that lies ahead.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they feel they tick every box. If you are excited about joining us and think you have some of what we are looking for, even if you’re not 100% sure, we would love to hear from you. Our CIO team is always looking for passionate individuals who are eager to make a difference and contribute to our success.

• You will leverage AI tools to accelerate test automation while maintaining high standards of quality and reliability. You will critically assess AI-generated outputs, contribute to the testing and continuous improvement of AI-enabled solutions, and apply AI in a secure, responsible and effective way.
• Use AI tools to support the development and maintenance of test automation and test cases, helping to improve productivity, quality and delivery outcomes.
• Create clear prompts to achieve useful results from AI tools and reviews AI-generated outputs to confirm they are accurate, relevant and fit for purpose before use.
• Apply AI in accordance with organisational standards for security, privacy, and responsible usage, including costs. Supports the testing of AI-enabled solutions and actively develops knowledge of emerging AI testing techniques and tools.
• You will be working as an individual collaborator on one of many sprint teams alongside colleagues that cross multiple disciplines.
• You will be actively taking part in sprint ceremonies; sharing updates and blockers in daily standups, estimating and committing in sprint planning or helping your team move forward in their behaviours by providing input in sprint retrospectives.
• You will ensure user stories are captured in accordance with your teams’ definition of ready, because you know how important that is to the quality of a delivered feature.

• You will apply a curious mindset to understand systems, customer needs and technical challenges, proactively exploring new approaches and technologies that improve testing efficiency, quality and delivery outcomes.
• You will be comfortable collaborating on an Agile sprint team in at least than one of its forms:
  Scrum, Kanban, Safe.
• You will be confident and vocal in sprint ceremonies like stand-ups, planning, retrospectives, 3-amigos and backlog elaboration.
• You will be familiar with contributing to backlog management in Jira or Octane, collaborating with colleagues to define work items, and recording your own activity in tasks.
• You will be familiar with test case management in tools such as Octane or X-Ray, ensuring your test scenarios and test results are traceable to work items for features.
• You can confidently collaborate in writing acceptance criteria using declarative gherkin to capture business rules that you can then run as automated tests with Cucumber.
• You will possess strong coding skills that you can demonstrate in implementing automated tests in one or more of Java, JavaScript, Typescript, C#.
• You will be comfortable with Source control using Git Hub to collaborate with others and share your code.
• You will be skilled with user interface automation with…