Senior Automation Lead - Newbury, United Kingdom - Saint-Gobain

Saint-Gobain

Verified Company

Newbury, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Senior Automation Lead

As we continue to deliver on our digital transformation initiatives and help support our brands across the UK & Ireland, our aim is to continuously assess ways to accelerate and improve testing across Digital and IT with automation at the heart of everything we do.

That's why we're looking for a Senior Automation Lead to join our digital team. It's a hybrid role and our office is in Newbury.

You'll be responsible for managing a team of Automation & Manual testers and accountable for driving high quality and robust automation into all areas of testing to support regular release cadence with continued focus on tooling, improvements, runtime efficiencies, and resource upskilling.

Responsibilities;

Contribute and implement an ambitious, data and digital delivery roadmap using automation in an agile workplace.
Complete tooling assessments for new projects and explore new technologies.
Work with existing automation teams to help drive improvements in speed and efficiency. Your knowledge and experience here will be key.
Continuous assessments into our automation approach and implement improvements where required.
Drive automation strategy with freedom to try new things.
Show measurable improvements in testing quality, performance and test cycles using tools and automation.
Ensure all digital sponsored testing activity is supporting CI/CD.
Drive quality and security into all of our deliverables, enabling release barriers to be removed.

Knowledge & Experience needed;

Minimum of 3 years' experience of automation testing and BDD.
Require knowledge and a keen interest in various areas for automation such as web, mobile apps and thick clients.
Understanding and experience of a vast range of automation tools including experience in setting up new frameworks. Highly skilled but not limited to Selenium, Appium and TOSCA.
Able to manage several projects simultaneously to ensure automation is being built and executed in the most efficient way, best practices and industry standards including security by design.
It is essential experience includes working with internal and external partners, suppliers, product owners and external QA resources.
Be able to develop standardised automated testing strategies that support our delivery goals.

What you will get in return

Opportunity to work in a fast paced, friendly, innovative environment where we encourage new ideas and fully support trying new things.
Job satisfaction in being our automation expert where all decisions around automation and our approach will be funnelled through you
Competitive Salary + Bonus + benefits (depending on role and experience)
A defined contribution pension scheme.
31 days' holiday (including bank holidays)
Flexible Holiday buysell scheme (allowing up to 3 days' holiday to be bought or sold).
As an employee you are automatically covered by the Saint-Gobain Life Assurance Scheme.
Staff discounts on high street and leisure activities and
various other benefits.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
At Saint-Gobain, our purpose is to 'Make the world a better home'. We are both manufacturers and distributors.

Together with and for our customers, we design materials and solutions that have a positive impact on everyone's life and provide well-being, quality of life and performance, while caring for the planet.

We're investing significantly to strengthening our digital proposition and it's crucial for us to be able to follow that plan, so there really couldn't be a better time joining us.

Diversity:

We are an inclusive employer and keen to hire talented people regardless of their background, abilities, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, national origin, what football team you support, taste in music, fashion sense or anything else that makes you, you

We believe that working in a diverse business can be more enjoyable, teams can be more innovative, and make better decisions.

We already employ many fantastic people from diverse backgrounds, but we still want to do more. So, we are on a mission to make Saint-Gobain inclusive and accessible to all, with role models for you to look up to and learn from, no matter who you are