Automation Engineer

Automation Engineer 3x – 6 months contract – Hybrid in Crawley About People’s Partnership

At the heart of our not-for-profit organisation is a commitment and a motivation to make the future‑saving experience a simple one for our members. We champion fairness and simplicity, not profit‑chasing. Imagine a financial adventure where everyone's a winner, fuelled by our exceptional service and brought to life by the fantastic individuals who work for us. We're a diverse employer with a flexible, hybrid working approach, ensuring everyone gets the opportunity to come to work and be the best version of themselves.

In collaboration with other business areas and stakeholders, the Automation Engineer will be responsible for delivering against the test strategy and devising test plans relating to the strategic change programme. They will focus on building and maintaining robust automated testing solutions. They will also need to support the programme through effective communication at all levels of the organisation including our partners.

The role will involve testing across all software phases : system, regression, integration, performance, user acceptance testing and automation.

• Assist the Test Manager and Test Leads in planning and delivering all test activities for the programme
• Develop and execute comprehensive automated tests to ensure the highest standards of software quality.
• Responsible for producing test collateral and gaining sign off from the appropriate parties / individuals / business areas
• Responsible for test planning and leading execution of the test plan
• Review the project plan and ensure any risks and issues are communicated to the project
• Define and track quality assurance metrics including defects, defect counts, test result and test status

• Extensive automation experience in C# using Playwright (or Selenium)
• Experience in C# API testing
• NUnit
• Build robust, consistent, repeatable, fully automated tests to run in parallel with high frequency
• Delivery of automation into the CI / CD cycle
• Excellent communication, planning and organisation skills
• Strong interpersonal relationship‑building skills with a Pro‑active, ‘can‑do’ behaviour and attitude
• Excellent understanding of SDLC

• Generous pension contributions with an employer contribution of up to 14%
• Real living wage
• Income protection, critical illness cover & death in service insurance
• Employee healthcare
• Parental and adoption leave
• Learning & development opportunities and study support
• Travel season ticket loans
• Subsidised restaurant in our Crawley office
• Volunteering days and charity payroll giving
• Onsite gym
• Ride‑to‑Work scheme
• Social clubs and events

People's Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to treating all our people (and all who apply for a role at People's Partnership) equally and enabling them to perform at their best and demonstrate what they have to offer. We are a disability committed employer, please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment process (application, selection assessments where relevant, and interview) to enable you to show us the best “you”.

Our people are our strength so finding ways to value and reward them is important to us. That’s why we offer an award‑winning pension – it’s what we’re good at – plus health care cover, an onsite gym, access to a personal trainer; even the odd massage. And if they’re feeling peckish after all that activity, they can always refuel in our subsidised restaurant.

Discover more of People's Partnership's employee benefits including our training programme, which is designed to give our people the support they need to develop a fulfilling career.