Automation Tester

Established over 30 years ago here at Lifeplus our mission is to be the world leader in holistic wellbeing by helping millions of people to unlock the wellness within them. We manufacture and distribute high quality nutritional supplements directly to our customers all over the world.

We are proud to have a team of enthusiastic customers and colleagues who are all dedicated to creating a legacy of wellbeing. At Lifeplus we celebrate and embrace diversity and we believe that our success comes from creating a caring and fun community.

**Job Purpose**:
**The role will include but is not limited to**:

- Work with the PM, Project Team, and Business Stakeholders to evaluate functional and non-functional requirements to produce prioritised automation tests that are data driven, keyword driven, robust, readable and maintainable.
- Creating and executing automated test scripts and maintaining already existing scripts.
- Collaborate with IT, Testers, Project Managers, Developers, Business Analysts and Stakeholders to implement and deliver automation frameworks and test plans.
- Maintain and update the Automation Test Strategy by recommending and introducing new tools and techniques to improve the capability of automation testing strategy.
- Providing solid test metrics, analysing and reporting on testing results.
- Proposing and obtaining agreement for the testing approach depending on the type of project.
- Support the end to end defect management lifecycle, including providing stakeholders with appropriate reporting.
- If needed help out with manual testing.
- Around 2-3 years of test automation experience of designing, implementing, and maintaining any web or desktop automation frameworks from the ground up.
- Experienced in scripting and programming languages e.g. Selenium, Test Complete, C#, SpecFlow.
- Experienced in POM (Page Object Model) and WOM (Windows Object Model).
- Experience of using Branching strategies and Source Code Management tools e.g. Visual Studio, TFS, BitBucket, and Git.
- Experience with testing tools such as Test Complete, SpecFlow, RESTfulAPI’s, BrowserStack.
- Hands on experience with test case management software tools such as TestRail and Project management tool e.g. JIRA and confluence.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
- Exposure to Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment would be beneficial.
- Exposure to performance testing and testing tools e.g. Jmeter would be beneficial.

**What we offer you**:

- Rewarding salary packages
- Contributory pension scheme of up to 6%
- Opportunity to buy & sell holiday
- Gym membership discounts
- Contributory hospital and health cash plan
- Cycle2Work scheme
- Eye care vouchers
- Free monthly Lifeplus nutritional and personal care products
- Life assurance
- Discounts at leading brands and retailers

**Hours and Days**:

- 37.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday between the hours of 7am and 6pm

**Location**:
The responsibilities and attributes listed above is indicative it is not exhaustive and is not designed to limit or inhibit the way we work or how the role develops. This is intended to be a fluid document and indicates how we currently see the role.
- _Please note: The successful applicant will be required to undertake a criminal record check._
- _Please advise us in advance if you have any special requirements if you are asked to attend an Interview._

We are Lifeplus Europe Limited (“Lifeplus”), Lifeplus House, Little End Road, St Neots, PE19 8JH,

Your personal information is retained for a 12 month period; when this period is over we will either delete your data or inform you that we would like to keep it on our database for future roles or suitable opportunities. Our lawful basis for retaining this information is legitimate interest.

**Salary**: £55,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Gym membership
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Relocation assistance
- Store discount
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Saint Neots, PE19 8JH: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

- Do you have experience with testing tools such as Test Complete, SpecFlow, RESTfulAPI’s, BrowserStack?
- Have you worked with the following scripting and programming languages: Selenium, Test Complete, C#, SpecFlow?

**Experience**:

- Test automation: 3 years (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Saint Neots, PE19 8JH