Join us as a Quality Automation Specialist
- In this key role, you’ll be undertaking and enabling automated testing activities in all delivery models
- We’ll look to you to support teams to develop quality solutions and enable continuous integration and assurance of defect free deployment of customer value
- You’ll be working closely with feature teams and a variety of stakeholders, giving you great exposure to professional development opportunities
- We're offering this role at associate vice president level
What you'll do
Joining us in a highly collaborative role, you’ll be contributing to the transformation of testing using quality processes, tools, and methodologies, significantly improving control, accuracy and integrity. You’ll be making sure repeatable, constant and consistent quality is built into all phases of the idea to value lifecycle at reduced cost or reduced time to market.
It’s a chance to work with colleagues at multiple levels, and with cross-domain, domain, platform and feature teams, to build in quality as an integral part of all activities.
Additionally, you’ll be:
- Supporting the design of automation test strategies, aligned to business or programme goals
- Evolving more predictive and intelligent testing approaches, based on automation and innovative testing products and solutions
- Collaborating with stakeholders and feature teams and making sure that automated testing is performed and monitored as an essential part of the planning and product delivery
- Designing and creating a low maintenance suite of stable, re-usable automated tests, which are usable both within the product or domain and across domains and systems in an end-to-end capacity
- Applying testing and delivery standards by understanding the product development lifecycle along with mandatory, regulatory and compliance requirements
The skills you'll need
We’re looking for someone with experience of automated testing, particularly from an Agile development or CI/CD environment. You’ll be an innovative thinker who can identify opportunities and design solutions, coupled with the ability to develop complex automation code.
You’ll have a good understanding of Agile methodologies with experience of working in an Agile team, with the ability to relate everyday work to the strategic vision of the feature team with a strong focus on business outcomes.
We’ll also look for you to have:
- At least seven years of experience designing, developing, and maintaining automation frameworks for web, API, UI, and data migration testing using Java, Unix/Linux scripting, or JavaScript
- Strong experience in API and integration testing using tools such as Postman and RestAssured, along with frameworks like TestNG, JUnit, and BDD
- Hands‑on experience with databases, particularly PostgreSQL, including data validation and query execution
- Proven ability to ensure comprehensive test coverage across functional, regression, and integration testing, with a continuous improvement mindset for automation strategies
- Experience working with Git and CI/CD pipelines, integrating automated tests into build and deployment workflows
- Strong collaboration and problem‑solving skills, with experience working closely with developers, product owners, and QA teams, and identifying, tracking, and managing defects using tools such as Jira
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
04/10/2026Skills Required
- At least seven years of experience designing, developing, and maintaining automation frameworks
- Experience with web, API, UI, and data migration testing
- Programming experience using Java, Unix/Linux scripting, or JavaScript
- Strong experience in API and integration testing
- Experience with Postman and RestAssured
- Experience with TestNG, JUnit, and BDD frameworks
- Hands-on experience with databases, particularly PostgreSQL
- Experience with data validation and query execution
- Experience ensuring functional, regression, and integration test coverage
- Experience working with Git and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience integrating automated tests into build and deployment workflows
- Experience working in an Agile development team or CI/CD environment
- Experience identifying, tracking, and managing defects using Jira
- Strong collaboration and problem-solving skills
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
