Automation Test Manager

This role demands a seasoned professional with a robust automation testing background, strategic vision, and the ability to build and lead a highly skilled team. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define and implement best practices, tools, and methodologies to ensure the efficiency and reliability of our software solutions., This role is a mixture of both a strategic approach requiring the implementation of strategy and planning as well as hands on test authoring and running of tests. Automation exists in the project but there will be a requirement to assess what has gone before and reorganize as you see fit. Strategy and Planning:

• Develop and implement a strategic roadmap for testing, aligning it with organizational goals and objectives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand project requirements and define automation testing goals and deliverables.
Process Improvement:
• Define and implement standardized automation testing processes and methodologies to ensure consistency and efficiency.
• Continuously evaluate and enhance automation testing practices based on industry trends and emerging technologies.
Collaboration:
• Work closely with development, quality assurance, and operations teams to integrate automation testing into the software development lifecycle.
• Collaborate to share knowledge and promote a culture of excellence across the organization.
  
  Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Extensive experience in automation testing with a deep understanding of automation testing tools and methodologies.
• Demonstrated leadership experience, with the ability to build, lead, and motivate a high-performing team.
• Strong strategic thinking and planning skills, with the ability to align automation testing initiatives with business goals.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across different teams and levels of the organization
Knowledge and experience of these tools would be useful:
• UFT/QTP (BPT, Hybrid, Keywordetc.)
• Selenium (TestNG, Keyword, Page Object etc.)Protractor
• Cucumber (BDD) Oracle, MySQL Database.
• Postman, SOAPUI,
• Rest Assured.
• JIRA,
• AWS,
• TestRail,
• Confluence, QC (ALM)
  
  We are recognised as a responsible and inclusive employer: Not only are we a certified Disability Confident Leader, a Times Top 50 employer for Gender Equality, a Top 75 employer for Social Mobility, accredited with the Living Wage Foundation and a signatory for the Race at Work Charter, but we are also committed to the United Nations standards for LGBTI+ and a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.
  
  Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays/ travel/ dental critical illness and more)
Perks at work - employee discounts Employee assistance programme/ virtual GP Private medical Car allowance