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Test Automation Lead
3 months ago
Job Description Summary
**Job Description**:
Test Automation Lead
Permanent
Aegon Asset Management is a leading global investor, our employees work from 13 locations across Europe, the Americas and Asia. We advise on assets for a global client base of pension plans, public funds, insurance companies, banks, wealth managers, family offices and foundations. We share a common belief in fundamental, research-driven active management, underpinned by effective risk management and a commitment to responsible investment.
Our people are our greatest asset, and we want Aegon Asset Management to be a place where they can bring their authentic self to work and do all they can to deliver on our strategic promises to our customers.
We help people live their best lives. We help them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter.
As our Test Automation Lead based in Edinburgh, within our ‘Automating the Firm’ Team, you will report to the Client Servicing, Analytics & Automation Manager. The Lead will be responsible for building a community of practice for Testing, Test Automation and setting up Test Automation Tooling as part of our increasing use of Digital Processing Tooling.
The Test Automation Lead will partner with different teams and assist and manage the setup of structured test sets and libraries, help define how the firm will track and report MI showing test progression, and consult where required on the automated unit testing element of DevSecOps as part of our revised sSDLC. In effect you will take responsibility for Quality Assurance and lead improvement initiatives by creating a test automation framework and standards that comply with the global IT Control Framework, help design automation scrips, and educate others on test automation, effectively creating a community around test automation that doesn’t exist today.
**Responsibilities**:
- Create a test automation strategy and framework, implement in our teams and maintain
- Maintain and improve the test strategy based on experience and industry best practices
- Further implement our test automation tooling and perform tool selection and implementation when required
- Assist in creating test sets and automate test execution
- Educate and train co-workers in test automation and automating test cases.
- Define testing metrics, insure these are measurable and create audit trails on testing. Goals should be to have an integral testing dashboard available to all relevant stakeholders.
- Embed test automation in our testing processes, procedures and Software Development Lifecycle.
- Where applicable improve existing test strategies and procedures and promote quality assurance in general.
- Research and stay up to date with testing methodologies, practices and tooling. Make proposals for improving and implementing the test practices in our company
- Operate within a Scrum team as part of the wider Scaled Agile change environment, participating in team and broader ceremonies and adoption of an Agile mindset and practices.
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- Experience in quality assurance/testing procedures, testing methodologies that includes implementing automation solutions
- Experience implementing one or more automation frameworks (Tosca, Selenium, Ranorex or comparable)
- Experience with a variety of testing techniques and methodologies
- Experienced in performing test automation assessments, identifying targets for automation, and recommending automation best practices
- Experienced with implementing or defining automated UIs, APIs, web services and back-end processes
- Hands-on experience in actual automation and maintenance of test cases, smoke tests, unit tests, assisting with UAT and regression testing.
- Experienced in making test dashboards and reports for stakeholders
- Experience of working in an Agile change environment.
- Leadership skills, demonstrated in the form of coordinator or community of practice lead roles
It would also be beneficial if you have:
- A degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or an equivalent combination of training and experience
- Strong team player, being able to work in international and virtual teams
- Experience in Investment Management industry
What’s in it for you?
- A competitive salary, depending on the experience you can bring
- A non-contributory pension between 9%-13%
- A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance
- 27 days leave per year (plus bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time)
We know our staff have busy lives and commitments outside work, so we work flexibly where possible and have a hybrid approach to office working (typically 2 days in the office per week and the rest from home).
We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our staff live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work s
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