About the role

  • Automation Engineer role with Hastings Direct, managing Agile teams and contributing to sprint ceremonies. Focusing on implementing automated tests and collaborating in a tech-driven environment.

Responsibilities

  • work as an individual collaborator on one of many sprint teams alongside colleagues
  • actively take part in sprint ceremonies; sharing updates and blockers in daily standups
  • ensure user stories are captured in accordance with your teams’ definition of ready
  • ensure work items meet your team definition of ready, building features from a common understanding
  • ensure work items are only complete when they meet the team definition of done
  • regularly collaborate with colleagues to write Acceptance Criteria that describe business rules

Requirements

  • comfortable collaborating on an Agile sprint team in at least one of its forms: Scrum, Kanban, Safe
  • confident and vocal in sprint ceremonies like stand-ups, planning, retrospectives, 3-amigos and backlog elaboration
  • familiar with contributing to backlog management in Jira or Octane
  • familiar with test case management in tools such as Octane or X-Ray
  • strong coding skills in implementing automated tests in one or more of Java, JavaScript, Typescript, C#
  • comfortable with Source control using GitHub
  • skilled with user interface automation with Selenium & Selenium Grid, Playwright or Cypress
  • able to implement tests against API either in code or via tools such as SoapUI, Postman

Benefits

  • Attractive salary based on experience (pay reviews also completed each year)
  • Flexible Working – We champion a flexible and hybrid working approach
  • Competitive Bonus Scheme - All colleagues are eligible for our annual 4Cs performance bonus
  • Physical Wellbeing – healthcare cash plan
  • Financial Wellbeing – life assurance cover and income protection, pension contribution up to 10%
  • Mental Wellbeing Programme - thrive mental health app, 24/7 assistance programme
  • 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, option to buy or sell one of your contracted weeks
  • access to private healthcare, dental plans, discounted health assessments, cycle to work and tech schemes
  • discounted and free onsite facilities, social events throughout the year

Job title

Automation Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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