Job title: Automation Test Engineer
Department: IT
Location: Homebased, United Kingdom
Hours: 37.5 per week
Salary: Competitive
We’re looking for a Automation Test Engineer to be part of our success story.
**Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain’s fastest-growing private companies.
**Great career development opportunities – grow with us.
About the role
The Automation Test Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining automated test frameworks for web applications built with .NET and Blazor. They will ensure software quality through comprehensive test automation, working closely with developers and product managers to implement robust testing strategies. This role includes both UI automation and API testing, focusing on building scalable and maintainable test suites.
Key responsibilities
• Web Test Automation: Design and develop automated test frameworks using C# and Playwright for Blazor applications.
• Mobile Test Automation: Create and maintain automated tests for Flutter applications using tools like Flutter Driver, integration_test package, or Appium.
• Cross-platform Testing: Ensure consistent test coverage and quality across web and mobile platforms.
• API Testing: Create automated API tests using tools like RestSharp/Postman, ensuring robust integration testing for both web and mobile applications.
• Framework Architecture: Design and implement scalable test automation frameworks that support both UI and API testing.
• CI/CD Integration: Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring quality gates are maintained.
• Mobile Device Testing: Manage and execute tests across different mobile devices and OS versions.
• Test Planning: Work with team members to develop comprehensive test strategies and test cases.
• Performance Testing: Design and execute performance tests using tools like K6.
• Bug Tracking: Identify, report, and track bugs through resolution, maintaining detailed documentation.
• Test Data Management: Design and implement test data strategies and maintenance procedures.
• Quality Metrics: Track and report on quality metrics, test coverage, and automation effectiveness
Skills and experience
• Proficient in C# and Flutter testing frameworks
• Mobile Testing: Experience with mobile automation tools (Appium, Flutter Driver)
• Web UI Automation: Experience with Selenium, Playwright, or similar tools
• API Testing: Knowledge of API testing tools and frameworks
• CI/CD: Experience with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps)
• Version Control: Proficiency in Git
• Cross-platform Testing: Experience testing across web and mobile platforms
Desirable Skills:
• Mobile Device Farms: Experience with cloud device testing platforms
• Performance Testing: Knowledge of mobile and web performance testing tools
• Security Testing: Basic understanding of mobile/web app security testing
• Accessibility Testing: Knowledge of mobile and web accessibility standards
Benefits
- 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups
- Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay
- Life assurance: three times basic salary
- Free breakfasts and fruit
- Birthday surprise for everybody!
What you can expect from us
At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices, one of our AAR sites or working from home, we'll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.
From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we’ll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.
A bit about us
Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK’s 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.
We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.
We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.
Want to know what it’s like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:
Purpose: Make someone's bad day better
Values:
- Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
- Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.
- Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.
