Associate Test Lead - Automation (selenium, Playwright)

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the implementation of modern test automation frameworks and tools.
• Oversee test architecture, ensuring scalability and maintainability of automation solutions.
• Promote shift-left testing practices and support developers in embedding quality.
• Implementation of automation frameworks for middleware and backend service-based applications in critical infrastructure design.
• Designing and executing automated tests on the latest revisions of the software.
• Participating in the development of our automated testing framework, assisting our move towards automated testing in a CI/CD environment.
• Interpreting requirements from existing manual test cases and specification documents.
  Liaising with Manual Testers and / or Business Analysts to understand the requirements.
• Liaising with the product and development teams to ensure that our backlog is up to date
• Providing estimates regarding the test effort required to complete work.
• Raising bugs and liaising with the development team from discovery through to resolution
• Setting up and configuring the testing environment and associated database(s)
• Working with and communicating frequently with a DevOps team to ensure smooth product delivery from beginning to end.
• Preparing the test execution report and sharing it with stakeholders.

Required technical skills and experience

• Experience with C# / Java Script/ Type Script
• 8 to 12 years of experience in Test Automation using various tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Appium, Mocha etc
• Experience developing and executing automated test cases for User Interfaces
• Knowledge of software development in a web environment

Required soft skills and experience

• Clear and concise communicator
• Able to prioritise between several tasks at any one time
• Able to work independently and as part of a team
• Detailed and effective written communication skills for documenting the features tested and bugs found
• Highly organized, detail oriented, extremely responsive
• Be comfortable discussing technical aspects of projects with other testers, developers & business owners.

Desirable skills and experience

• Experience using Azure DevOps
• Experience using Selenium and Playwright or equivalent tools
• Usage of latest AI tools.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines
• Experience testing User Interfaces and databases
• You'll have ISTQB/ISEB Foundation certifications or equivalent certifications or be working towards achieving them.
• Experience using virtual machines (Hyper V / Microsoft Azure)
• Experience coordinating with external/Offshore QA resources

• Has worked with UK clients and team (Preferred)
• Has working experience of the onshore – offshore model
• Has experience of commercial awareness in aspects such as revenue recognition and margin management