Automation Engineer

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Build a brilliant future with Hiscox
 

Position: Automation Engineer

Reporting to: Head of Quality Engineering

Location: York

Type: Permanent

Band: 1

Build a brilliant future with Hiscox The London Market tech team is a modern, agile technology department seeking to work as closely as possible with our colleagues across the company to deliver true business value in an agile fashion. We are a group of engineers (software, data, quality), data scientists and agile practitioners. We organise ourselves into chapters according to these professional disciplines. You would be joining our quality engineering chapter.

Hiscox London Market is actively seeking a dynamic Automation Engineer to support our London Market Engineering team and get involved in shaping the way we ensure quality across all of our technology platforms.

The role

Within this role you will be responsible for ensuring the quality of our web applications and APIs. You will also support our Software Development Engineers in Test (SDETs) in maintaining and executing of automation tests. This will also involve working closely with the software engineers and product owners in understanding, defining and testing of the application. You will ensure our test suites give appropriate coverage to reduce the chance of regression defects. In order to achieve this, you will have good understanding of key components of our underlying technologies.

What you’ll be doing

· Ensuring hands-on testing of our APIs and web applications

· Working with the specialist quality engineering practice for the Hiscox London Market and you will be adopting the right tool for the job mentality.

· Focusing on speed of delivery and quality, with suitable pragmatism – ensuring your solutions are always “appropriate” and not overly complex or over-engineered.

· Working with offshore partner quality engineers – in India and Poland and onsite staff in London and York Hiscox offices.

Our must haves

· Proven experience in manual testing, including creating test cases, executing tests, and identifying defects

· Strong knowledge of programming languages such as C# or Java.

· Meticulous approach to testing, ensuring that all aspects of the application are thoroughly tested

· Experience with web application testing using tools such as Playwright or Selenium.

· Experience with the API testing

· Experience working in a truly agile style.

· Good Team Player.

· Excellent Communication skills.

Our nice to haves

· Experience with C# testing framework.

· Behaviour-driven testing of executable specifications e.g. using Gherkin.

· Exposure to DevOps principals

· Experience in working with version control tools like git

Our technology

We operate in a diverse technical landscape and are looking for flexible Automation Engineer who can adapt to and use many different tools. We would not expect any Automation Engineer to be familiar with the entire tech stack. Instead, we seek people with

a good understanding of quality engineering, software development practices and have the ability to apply this knowledge in learning new tools. Moreover we will be working with the Automation Engineer in their progression towards becoming a SDET.

Our technology platforms include web applications developed in C# interacting with backend services (APIs) and backed by Microsoft SQL Server databases. We operate data platforms using Snowflake cloud data warehouse orchestrated with Python code and Prefect for ELT. We have a hybrid on-premises / Azure cloud infrastructure and are adopting a cloud first / provider agnostic approach.

We take a DevOps approach and strive for continuous integration / continuous deployment. We use Azure Pipelines to deploy our code. We deploy infrastructure the same way using Terraform and Docker.

Diversity and flexible working at Hiscox

At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job and we’re committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success.

We have also learned over the past couple of years that working life doesn’t always have to be in the office, and have adopted hybrid ways of working to encourage a healthy work life balance. We anticipate the successful candidate for this role will be in the office up to 2 days per fortnight.

Why work here?

If you want to help build a brilliant future; work with amazing people; be part of a unique company culture; and, of course, enjoy great employee benefits that take care of your mental and physical wellbeing, come and join us.

Work with amazing people and be part of a unique culture